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- Association Voûte Nubienne
- Date of creation : 2000
- Activity : La Voûte Nubienne (AVN) is an international NGO promoting the extension of the “Nubian Vault” construction technique to build fully adobe-made houses, thereby responding to the urgent need of the populations for solid, healthy, comfortable and affordable homes. AVN trains masons, mobilises customers, thereby creating or revitalising local markets who then disseminate the building technique independently.
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- Country : France
One Woman, One Roof and Rights
| Field | Microfinance |
| Country | Burkina faso |
| City | Dako |
| Beneficiaries | Burkinabe women from Solidarity Mutuals in the district of Dano |
| Number of beneficiaries | Between 200 and 500 |
The Project
The project entitled “One Woman, One Roof and Rights” is intended to improve women’s living conditions, by facilitating access to decent homes built along the Nubian Vault (NV) technique. This pilot project proposes on the one hand to build women’s knowledge via literacy classes and basic education on their rights; and on the other hand, to provide them with microfinance solutions adapted to their income generating activities and their housing conditions.
Women are thus able to free themselves from the spiral of poverty, to become role models for other women and a driving force for their entire community.
- Extend the literacy centres: funding for operation of the 8 existing centres and the construction of 2 NV community buildings is provided by a sustainable economic model (participation of literate women and State subsidies).
Women attend literacy classes along with training modules on housing rights, housing health and safety issues, etc.
- Validate a funding solution to facilitate access to NV housing, adapted to the poorest women: a mixed savings/credit/participation finance product is created and offered to the most destitute women by local microfinance institutions. In addition, the MFIs propose Home Savings Plans (Plans Épargne Logement) enabling women to access housing loans and build their Nubian Vault house.
- Launch a housing improvement programme, dedicated specifically to women, via extension of the Nubian Vault technique: this pilot project is currently under trial in the Dano region in Burkina Faso, and its outcome should enable duplication in other Sub-Saharan areas.
Progress of the project
- Start
- Running
- Done
