Ouagadougou: The Northern Regional Council (CRN), in collaboration with the support unit for decentralization and citizen participation (CADEPAC), unveiled the Development Strategy to the driving forces of the region Local Economic and Territorial Coherence ( SDELCoT). It was this Thursday, February 8, 2024 in Ouahigouya, during a workshop chaired by the Governor of the region, also President of the Special Regional Delegation of the North, Issouf Ouédraogo.The regions (local authorities), as gateways to development at the local level, must create a dynamic of territorial economic development in order to have structuring investment programs with a view to facilitating the emergence of productive sectors.The North and Center-West have been identified by the permanent secretariat of the National Conference on Decentralization (SP/CONAD) as pilot regions in the development of their first strategies for local economic development and territorial coherence.To present the contents of the document and with the aim of facilitating implementation for the benefit of stakeholders, the Northern Regional Council organized a workshop to disseminate the SDELCoT to bring all decentralized stakeholders in the 31 municipalities to the same level of information. of the region.At the opening of the workshop, Naaba Koutou, 2nd vice-president of the Special Regional Delegation of the North, indicated that the SDELCoT constitutes one of the major innovations of cycle III of decentralization.'Through this workshop, participants from the provinces of Passoré, Zondoma, Loroum and Yatenga will appropriate the content of the document, give their opinions and together we will identify projects which involve all stakeholders for the true development of the region,' rejoiced the 2nd Vice-President of the Special Regional Delegation.For the head of the SP/CONAD decentralization programming and consultation framework department, Honoré Sawadogo, the objective of the SDELCoT dissemination workshop is to promote promising sectors for th e benefit of stakeholders for more local development. inclusive desired by the Transition authorities.In the North, potential such as the production of potatoes, tomatoes and bananas are among other sectors to be promoted, suggested Mr. Sawadogo.For the representative of CADEPAC, Lassané Zongo, 'The Northern region and the Central-West region are the pilot regions of the local economic development and territorial coherence strategy. We invite the sons and daughters to support the regional councils and particularly that of the North for the effective implementation so that the region is a reference for other regions in terms of local development during the period (2023-2032).On behalf of Issouf Ouédraogo, President of the Special Regional Delegation, the Vice-President expressed his gratitude to Swiss Cooperation through CADEPAC and SP/CONAD for their technical and financial support. To the stakeholders present at the meeting, he invited everyone to get more involved in raising the economy of the Norther n region to a very high level.Source: Burkina Information Agency
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