Help Burundian poor population in hard situation

Save Life Make Difference                                                                       ref slmd22-2023-07

Bujumbura - Burundi

Email : salimadiasbl@gmail.com

Tel: +25771452395

A landlocked country in East Africa, Burundi is a low-income economy where 80% of its population works in the agriculture sector. Located in the Great Lakes region, Burundi is surrounded by Rwanda to the north, by Tanzania to the east, by the Democratic Republic of Congo to the west and bordered by Lake Tanganyika to the southwest. With 12.5 million inhabitants (2021), of which 50.6% are women and 41.5% young people under the age of 15, it is one of the countries with the highest population density with a density ratio of 442 inhabitants/km2 (2020 demographic projection).

Burundi has made significant progress in terms of quality and access to education. Since the introduction of free at the primary education level in 2005, the Gross Enrollment Rate in primary education has increased reaching 118% in the 2021/2022 school year with no significant variation between provinces, gender or income level.

Political context

President Evariste Ndayishimiye was elected in 2020 for a 7-year term. The CNDD-FDD party in power, since 2005, dominates the political scene with a large majority in Parliament (87 places out of 123) and in the Senate (38 places out of 39).

The main objective of the National Development Plan (PND) 2018-2023 is to structurally transform the Burundian economy, for strong, sustainable, resilient and inclusive growth, creating decent jobs for all and inducing the improvement of social well-being. The national peacebuilding program was developed in 2020 to operationalize the PND. This program serves as a reference for all intervention strategies and actions aimed at promoting economic growth, community recovery, sustainable and inclusive reintegration and resettlement of displaced persons in Burundi.

Socio-economic context

Burundi has experienced a difficult economic situation in recent years, which has been marked by macroeconomic imbalances. To compensate for the loss of external resources, there has been an increase in the mobilization of internal resources, but this has not been sufficient to meet the continuously rising social demand, driven by sustained population growth. Recent shocks (COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine) have interrupted a still fragile economic recovery and intensified macroeconomic imbalances. In 2022, economic growth slowed down to 1.8% from 3.1% in 2021, caused by a modest performance of the industry and services sectors. However, agricultural production experienced a slight contraction due to the delay in rainfall and fertilizer distribution. The headline inflation rate reached 18.8% in 2022 and could remain high in 2023 as higher food and oil prices caused by the war in Ukraine affect the global economy.

The budget deficit increased from 4.6% of GDP in 2021 to 11.5% in 2022, driven by higher spending on subsidies, transfers and investment while revenues fell slightly.

COVID-19

With additional funding from the COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Project, Burundi gained access to the Johnson and Johnson vaccine through the AVAT initiative. Following a national COVID-19 vaccine deployment plan, the vaccination campaign started on October 18, 2021. Currently, the Ministry of Health has decided to integrate COVID-19 vaccination into routine vaccination and at least one vaccination site has been set up in all 49 districts of the country. As part of the preparation and response to epidemics/pandemics, the project has contributed to supporting Burundi in preparing for the threat of the Ebola virus which raged in Uganda from September 2022 to January 2023. The project is also supporting in the fight against the cholera epidemic which has been ongoing in Burundi since January 2023.

We predict to get 850 000 dollars but we have only  835 dollors . but we hope and we ask our donotors to continue to support us 

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