Kaya: Citizen monitoring actors are reorganizing to fight better

The Regional Coordination of Citizen Watch Associations (CRAVC) of the Center-North organized, on Monday April 8, 2024 in Kaya, a press conference to present its provincial and municipal members. Since April 1, 2024, the National Coordination of Citizen Watch Associations (CNAVC) now replaces the National Coordination of Citizen and Patriotic Watch Organizations (CNOVCP). And this for all 13 regions of the Center-North. According to the keynote speaker, the regional mission manager for the Center-North, Issa Lagvaré, this decision aims to compensate for the lack of coordination of these citizen monitoring organizations. According to him, the CNAVC aims to facilitate integration and support the initiatives of the Head of State, Captain Ibrahim Traoré. Mr. Lagvaré continued that the change of organizations into associations aims to take into account financing problems and to be able to legally support current and future presidential initiatives in terms of development and security. However, the regional mis sion manager of the Head of State indicated that the conservation of the citizen monitoring component aims to always take into account the daily monitoring work and the guarding of the Transition made since the arrival of MPSR II. 'The dismemberments of the citizen monitoring branch will remain as such and will be managed by all the presidents with the organization already underway in the different zones,' he specified. Issa Lagvaré announced that a single logo will be used for both branches, namely those of citizen monitoring and development throughout the national territory. 'The development branch will be carried out by regional project managers and focal points (development and security). The designated provincial coordinator will have the mission of mobilizing all municipalities and districts when he has projects in his province,' added Mr. Lagvaré. The municipal offices, according to him, have presidents who in their role ensure the president of the month at the provincial level. To succeed in his m ission, he invited the population of the Center-North to take ownership and mobilize around the initiatives of the Head of State, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, and above all to frank collaboration with the Defense Forces and Security (FDS) and the Volunteers for the Defense of the Fatherland (VDP). What were the criteria for choosing the members of the provincial and municipal offices? What will be the future of regional citizen watch and homeland defense movements? 'Four members make up a municipal office, notably the president, the secretary, the treasurer and the women's representative. The selection criteria were made by the leaders or those responsible for the different movements affected and each movement chose a leader to constitute the municipal offices,' explained Issa Lagvaré. Each provincial office is composed, in addition to the four members mentioned above, of a provincial coordinator and two focal points (development and security), i.e. seven members. According to the speaker Lagvaré, the regional mission manager has the task of coordinating all the actions of the CRAVC and especially of reporting information related to security and development to the Presidency of Faso. Source: Burkina Information Agency