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Equator Initiative Case StudiesLocal sustainable development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities
Burkina Faso
SONGTAAB-YALGRASSOCIATION
Empowered live
Resilient nation
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UNDP EQUATOR INITIATIVE CASE STUDY SERIES
Local and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that wo
or people and or nature. Few publications or case studies tell the ull story o how such initiatives evolve, the breadth
their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer still have undertaken to tell these stories with community practition
themselves guiding the narrative.
To mark its 10-year anniversary, the Equator Initiative aims to ll this gap. The ollowing case study is one in a growing ser
that details the work o Equator Prize winners vetted and peer-reviewed best practices in community-based environmenconservation and sustainable livelihoods. These cases are intended to inspire the policy dialogue needed to take local succ
to scale, to improve the global knowledge base on local environment and development solutions, and to serve as models
replication. Case studies are best viewed and understood with reerence to The Power o Local Action: Lessons rom 10 Years
the Equator Prize, a compendium o lessons learned and policy guidance that draws rom the case material.
Click on the map to visit the Equator Initiatives searchable case study database.
Editors
Editor-in-Chie: Joseph Corcoran
Managing Editor: Oliver Hughes
Contributing Editors: Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Erin Lewis, Whitney Wilding
Contributing Writers
Edayatu Abieodun Lamptey, Erin Atwell, Toni Blackman, Jonathan Clay, Joseph Corcoran, Larissa Currado, Sarah Gordon, Oliver Hughes, Wen
Juan Jiang, Sonal Kanabar, Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Rachael Lader, Patrick Lee, Erin Lewis, Jona Liebl, Mengning Ma, Mary McGraw
Gabriele Orlandi, Juliana Quaresma, Peter Schecter, Martin Sommerschuh, Whitney Wilding, Luna Wu
Design
Oliver Hughes, Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Amy Korngiebel, Kimberly Koserowski, Erin Lewis, John Mulqueen, Lorena de la Parra,
Brandon Payne, Mariajos Satizbal G.
Acknowledgements
The Equator Initiative acknowledges with gratitude the Association Songtaab-Yalgr, and in particular the inputs o Noelie W. Ouedraogo.
photo credits courtesy o Association Songtaab-Yalgr and the International Institute or Communication and Development (IICD) (www.i
org). Maps courtesy o CIA World Factbook and Wikipedia.
Suggested Citation
United Nations Development Programme. 2012. Songtaab-Yalgr Association, Burkina Faso. Equator Initiative Case Study Series. New York, NY
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PROJECT SUMMARYHaving begun in a ew villages in the mid-1990s, Songtaab-
Yalgr now brings together more than 3,000 women
across ten provinces o Burkina Faso in the harvesting and
processing o shea nuts rom the tree species Vitellaria
paradoxa. With the initial aim o improving womens
literacy and advocating or improved working conditions,
the initiative identied the production o shea nut butter
as a viable and low-impact economic activity that would
diversiy womens livelihood opportunities and have an
empowering eect by transorming the way women are
perceived in rural society. The association exports its shea
butter internationally, producing more than 50 tons in 2006.
Prots are equally distributed amongst members, with a
percentage set aside to und community development
projects such as well-digging, provision o health services,
and HIV/AIDS education or women and youth.
KEY FACTS
EQUATOR PRIZE WINNER: 2006
FOUNDED: 1990
LOCATION: 10 Provinces in Burkina Faso
BENEFICIARIES: over 3,000 women
BIODIVERSITY: shea nut trees
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SONGTAAB-YALGR ASSOCIATIONBurkina Faso
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Background and Context 4
Key Activities and Innovations 6
Biodiversity Impacts 7
Socioeconomic Impacts 8
Policy Impacts 8
Sustainability 9
Replication 9
Partners 9
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ongtaab-Yalgr Association (Association Songtaab-Yalgr - ASY) is a
ynamic and growing association o organic shea butter producers in
urkina Faso. The association began as a womens literacy initiative; a
mall group o women gathering to learn how to read and write. As the
roup grew, so did the breadth and scope o their activities. An initial
ocus on literacy quickly expanded to include womens health issues,
hen broader concerns o social justice and community wellbeing,
nd then prospects or sustainable income generation. Based on
n inormal stocktaking o the groups comparative strengths, the
women identied shea butter production and processing as an area
common expertise and a potentially lucrative enterprise. The
ollective was ormed in the mid-1990s and now involves more than
,000 women across ten provinces o Burkina Faso in the production,
rocessing and marketing o high-quality, organic shea butter.
urkina Faso is a land-locked country with a varied geography and
limate. Lush orest covers the southwestern area bordering Cote
Ivoire, while sand dunes blanket the northwest area bordering Mali
nd Niger. It is also consistently ranked among the poorest countries
n the world. More than 75 percent o the population is illiterate,
0 percent o whom are women. Women in Burkina Faso also ace
multitude o legal and social barriers, including various policies
nd social norms that inhibit property ownership, access to credit,
nd natural resource entitlements. According to the traditional
ivision o labor, women are responsible primarily or the cultivation
nd harvesting o subsistence crops such as millet, maize and rice.
hey are also responsible or collecting the ruits that all rom theree species Vitellaria paradoxa (ormerly Butyrospermum parkii),
r shea trees. In Burkina Faso, shea nuts are commonly reerred to
s womens gold. They are used to produce shea butter and are
oveted as active ingredients in soaps, cosmetics, moisturizers and
otions.
A womens group born o marginalization
he catalyst or the ormation o the association was rustration
with discriminatory working conditions or women in a cluster
o villages in the rural province o Bazga, located to the sout
Ouagadougou in the centre o the country. The promotion o co
and horticultural exports under the countrys structural adjustm
programme had seen these sectors receiving major governm
investments, to the neglect o subsistence crops, the shea nut se
and, consequently, women armers. In the deteriorating econ
climate, many women workers sought employment with
transnational corporations in the horticultural sector; in the
o many o the ounding women o Association Songtaab-Ya
they were driven to do so ater being widowed and losing titl
their land. These corporations exploited prevailing social norms
marginalized womens rights; on the whole, women endured
working conditions, low wages, and little job security.
Faced with continued hardship and harassment, a group o
women employees in Bazga were mobilized to protest ag
poor working conditions, and to demand that the company res
its women workers rights. As employees o the company, they
not allowed to join a union, and instead met in the house o
o the women to organize and strategize. Ater meeting with
management team to present their demands, which received
media coverage and support rom many organisations, the wo
were subjected to even greater mistreatment, harassment
rustration. Finally, the group decided to tender their resigna
in the ace o threats rom the corporations management t
Their stance triggered a series o other resignations by most o
companys emale employees, and some male employees, ultimleading to the company closing down and leaving the country.
One woman, one income
The group subsequently ormed the Association Songtaab-Y
(songtaab, in the Moor language, means to help one another
continued to meet as a sel-help group. Beyond its literacy activ
in which women learned Moor and Dioula, two o the most w
spoken indigenous languages, the group decided to pool
resources to orm a shea butter enterprise. This came at a
Background and Context
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when the government had begun promoting womens economic
mpowerment through the development o the shea sector. The
overnment, together with other donors, provided support to the
roup in the orm o loans, literacy and technical training.
he association works to nd ways o unleashing the creative energy
local women by linking them into protable market supply-chains
nd, by extension, the modern economy. This objective has ound
xpression most concretely in the harvesting and processing ohea nuts and the production o shea butter. ASY operates with the
motto, One woman, one income and applies to all o its members
he principles o a air purchase price, direct trade, community
evelopment through sound environmental management,
ransparent and democratic decision-making, and access to credit.
he association also retains a commitment to urnishing local
women with management skills, a higher level o education and
teracy, and opportunities or peer-to-peer learning and exchange.
Shea nuts, womens gold
here is growing demand or shea butter products in local, regional,
nd international markets. For Association Songtaab-Yalgr,
artnerships have been critical or taking advantage o this trend
nd accessing equitable and protable market supply-chains.
LOccitane, or example an international retailer o body,
and home products that buys shea butter rom ASY suppo
the association to acquire air trade certication. (The cosm
company has also invested heavily in training, technology tran
processing standardization, and collective bargaining suppor
the association). Equally important in this regard was a partne
developed with the United Nations Fund or Women (UNIFEM)
has linked the group with domestic and international comme
buyers.
The employment opportunities generated through the associ
have empowered local women to escape the margins o pover
using traditional knowledge and a widely available and abun
resource. New sources o income provide a degree o na
autonomy and have created revenue streams that are chann
into lling service gaps in the areas o education, health, and
security. Collective revenues have also been reinvested into cap
development and skills training in the areas o literacy, bookkee
small-scale enterprise development, and computer skills. A wom
health inormation center oers training and seminars on mate
health, HIV/AIDS and emale circumcision. Beyond shea butter,
has become a center o transormative change or landless,
women.
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Key Activities and Innovations
he associations activities include all aspects o the shea butter
production chain. Women producers receive support in harvesting
nd collection, drying and processing, storage, marketing and export.
raining is provided on good practices and standards in processing
hea nuts, as well as value-added secondary processing. In addition
o producing shea butter, the association has also diversied its
production into jams made rom shea ruit. Traditionally, the green
ruit surrounding the coveted nut had been discarded. ASY, however,
ecognized the potential o preserving and commoditizing the shea
ruit. The group now processes a jam which is in high demand at
ocal and national markets. The jam, sold under the brand name
Karidelice, has won numerous awards or innovation and quality. In
ddition to its widely popular avor, shea ruit contains high levels oitamins A, C, D, and E. Beyond boosting employment and creating
n additional income stream or association members, the new
product has health benets or a population in need o both ood
ecurity and alternative sources o nutrients. ASY has also grown its
programs, activities and training in adult literacy. Basic writing and
eading skills are oered in combination with a computer training
ourse. These activities have been delivered through a project called
Maison pour lInormation et la Promotion du Karit.
Organic certifcation and biological coding
here a number o aspects o the associations work that are
oteworthy in terms o innovation. In addition to being launchednd operated exclusively by women, the association has used
partnerships and value-added secondary processing to carve out a
iche in the shea butter market. By attaining organic certication,
nd subsequently air trade certication, ASY has created a platorm
or local women to earn a air wage and linked producers into a unique
upply-chain. The group has also adopted innovative approaches to
make its product stand-out rom the competition. For instance, a
biological coding system was used to trace shea nut raw material
back to individual trees and harvesting sites, giving consumers an
ccurate and exact trace on the origin o their product.
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Impacts
BIODIVERSITY IMPACTS
The shea tree (and its butter) are known in French as karit, rom the
Wolo name ghariti. A member o the sapotaceae amily indigenous
o Arica, shea trees grow mostly in the wild, so carry little need or
ny special cultivation. The shea ruit consists o a thin, tart, nutritious
pulp that surrounds a relatively large, oil-rich seed rom which shea
butter is extracted. One o the comparative strengths o the shea
ree is its resilience and the ability to survive a harsh, unorgiving
limate prone to prolonged periods o drought. With a liespan o up
o 200 years, the shea tree produces ruit ater its teenth year and
eaches ull production potential in its twenty-th year. Shea trees
re abundant in resource-poor Burkina Faso and are a rare source obiological wealth in the semi-arid Sahel region o West Arica. The
rees are ound almost exclusively in a belt less than 300 kilometers
wide, which extends rom Mali through Burkina Faso to Ghana, Togo
nd Benin. This belt covers more than 80 percent o Burkina Faso,
giving it the highest concentration o shea trees in the world.
Combating desertifcation and deorestation
The shea tree has been an important resource or the people o
West Arica. Traditional medicines use the bark as an ingredient to
reat childhood ailments as well as minor scrapes and cuts. The shell
o the nut is used as a mosquito repellent, noteworthy in a region
where malaria kills thousands every year. In the ace o encroachingdesertication, the shea tree also helps prevent wind erosion and
dds organic matter back to the soil. The nuts are processed to
obtain shea butter, which is used as cooking oil, or making s
as medicine, and in cosmetics. Shea butter is increasingly va
throughout the world or its superb healing and moistur
properties and is widely used in creams, sunscreen lot
conditioners and in the treatment o burns and muscle pain.
Association Songtaab-Yalgr has established a shea tree nur
where seedlings are nurtured or replanting. The association
been actively involved in reorestation eorts and, by extension
helped to enorce bans on illegal logging. With support rom I
Nederland, ASY partnered with the Ministry o Environment an
National Forest Seed Center to reorest over 60 hectares o lan
the southern province o Ziro, as part o a two-year project tharom 2009 to 2010. Reorestation activities used exclusively n
tree species, including Vitellaria paradoxa. At present, the initia
reorestation program is suspended due to lack o unds, howe
The premium received or organic products on the internat
market has helped to create greater awareness o conservation is
and incentivized good environmental stewardship. Associ
members receive training in organic arming techniques, and
instructed to avoid the use o pesticides and chemical ertil
Trainings include the use o organic green manure, compos
sanitation, the recycling o household waste, the ormation o b
to control water distribution (and ultimately run-o), and
rotation or soil enrichment. Theatre and drama groups have enlisted by the association to deliver this message to the ge
population.
While climate change is an observable and pressing challenge for rural people in Burkina Fas
changing attitudes towards sustainable development is as important in winning the fight for th
preservation of biodiversity.
Marceline Ouedraogo, President
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SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS
The rural population o Burkina Faso is largely dependent on
easonal agriculture or their incomes. This is particularly true o
women, 85 percent o whom depend on subsistence agriculture
o meet livelihood and ood security needs. Economic and social
marginalization is urther complicated by a land tenure system
which disinherits women rom their land when their husbands pass
away. Womens opportunities or livelihoods diversication andupward economic mobility in Burkina Faso then are ew and ar
between, making the employment and income generation provided
by association membership and activities all the more meaningul.
Many o the women currently working as members o the association
previously earned less than USD 1 per day as subsistence armers,
and now earn an average o USD 4 per day.
mproving wellbeing - incomes, health and education
This positive shit in earning capacity or the over 3,000 members
o ASY has had important implications or community nutrition,
health and education. Prots generated rom the sale o association
products are equally distributed amongst contributing members,with a percentage set aside to und community development
projects (wells have been drilled to enable resh water access),
health services (inormation on reproductive health, HIV/AIDS
prevention, and disease control), and educational programming
literacy). Revenues have also been invested into basic, time-saving
equipment such as simple presses, improving overall productivity
and acilitating a division o labor that allows association members
o purchase raw nuts in bulk rom women who specialize in ruit
picking. These developments have unctionally streamlined the
ocal shea nut supply-chain and created more efcient economies
o scale.
Fair trade certication has been an integral part o improving local
ivelihoods, accessing new markets, and tapping more lucrative
ncome streams or the women producers. To ensure compliance
with needed standards, ASY annually conducts an internal quality
control check and lists the support o ECOCERT to conduct the
corresponding requisite external review. Association members
eceive technical training to achieve organic and air trade standards.
Direct and collective access to international markets has enabled
ocal producers to bypass middlemen and intermediary buyers who
previously charged a high premium or go-between services.
Partnerships with government agencies and internat
organizations have increased the individual technical cap
o association members and allowed the association as a w
to produce certied organic shea butter in larger quantities.
increased its annual production rom 3 tons in the early 2
to over 50 tons in 2006. The strict processing standards
accompany organic certication, while more labor inte
and time-consuming, come with signicant economic ben
Producers receive between 100 and 150 percent more per kilogor organically produced shea butter as compared to m
conventional production methods.
POLICY IMPACTS
The rapid growth o the shea industry in Burkina Faso has le
commensurate growth in the interest the national governme
taking (and investments they are making) in the sector as a w
Shea butter is now the third largest export, behind gold and co
and constitutes an industry that employs over 400,000 women
association has been a vocal advocate or greater government
on preventing deorestation, investments in reorestation e
and the benets o reorestation or combatting desertication
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Climate change affects all social strata. We are looking for fairness in access to finance for th
development of strategies to fight against deforestation and the development of reforestation an
regeneration of endangered species in danger of extinction.
Marceline Ouedraogo, President
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Sustainability and Replication
SUSTAINABILITYAssociation Songtaab-Yalgr began with a number o modestly
ized start-up loans rom partner organizations. The group has
ince paid o these loans, and aims to be sel-sufcient. Financial
ustainability will be assured i current trends in demand or shea
utter products on the international market continue. Attaining
ccess to international markets then was a necessary step in
eveloping organizational autonomy and sel-sufciency. And this
ecessitated a process o achieving both organic and air trade
ertication. Ater the association was legally incorporated, they
btained organic certication with the support o a national organic
ertication program. Importantly, this gained the association
ccess to prime international markets like the United States. It wouldake several more years until the group would establish a trusted
working relationship with LOccitane, who in the end acilitated air
rade certication. Beyond market access, the association has also
ursued product diversication to ensure nancial sustainability; as
reviously mentioned, ASY now successully produces a jam made
rom shea ruit.
Organizational sustainability has been promoted and achieved
hrough peer-to-peer exchange and learning networks. Technical
raining oered to women producers over the years has created a
multiplier eect, with other womens groups picking up lessons
earned and new processing techniques. The associations purchase
appropriate technologies such as simple presses, centriugesnd solar driers signicantly reduced the time and labor necessary
or shea processing while limiting the eects on the environment.
nvestment in such technologies increases production and leaves
he women with more time or other activities o social and cultural
alue.
REPLICATIONASY conducts trainings and participates in conerences
workshops throughout Burkina Faso and many other areas o W
Arica. The association model has been shared in-country with
dierent associations. Success has bred success, with nume
womens groups and associations coming into existence and thr
based on lessons learned rom ASY.
PARTNERS
From the very beginning, the association has relied on partners
a robust, dynamic partnership to survive and grow. In 1998, as
o the Francophone World Forum Ontario, an unlikely partnedeveloped between the Flash Beauty Society o Montreal and
Songtaab-Yalgr Business Association o Ouagadougou to dev
a range o natural cosmetics made rom shea butter. From
partnership, the idea was born o organizing a production
export network o organic shea butter.
Another important partner early in the associations developmen
Oxam Novib, the Dutch organization or international develop
cooperation that works to ensure that poor people have acce
basic rights by means o structural poverty alleviation and emerg
aid. Novib provided seed unding or the construction o the
centre and assisted with the purchase o processing equipment
unding has been cited as transormational in terms o gettingassociation o the ground and in operation.
The United Nations Fund or Women (UNIFEM, now part o
Women) played a key role in the governments decision to prom
womens empowerment through investing in the shea nut se
In 1997, the agency conducted a comprehensive review o
sector which revealed that the greatest potential source o inc
or women producers lay in the production and marketing o
butter, rather than the raw nuts. For instance, in 1997, a to
o unprocessed shea nuts sold domestically or CFA70,000
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xternally or CFA100,000. The same tonne, when processed into
hea butter, yielded CFA148,000. The review also revealed that
women were not beneting rom the sector. UNIFEM worked closely
with the Government o Burkina Faso to improve access to the
world market and to improve Burkinab womens economic returns
rom shea nuts. Their interventions included nancial and technical
ssistance specically targeted at womens groups in the sector.
UCN-Nederland provided support or the associations reorestationrogram, which ran rom 2009-2010, using a grant o 58,000 rom
he Turing Foundation (Netherlands).
The Canadian Centre or International Studies and Coopera
was also an important ounding partner, providing sustain
development volunteers to work on project design
implementation.
Other partners include: Union Faso Karit, Rseau Burkina NTIC
Rseau TIC et Agriculture, Fdration des Industries Alimentaire
Burkina, Maison de lEntreprise, Cong Solidaire/Plante Urge
(France), SNV (the Netherlands Development Organisation), R
de Communication et dInormation des ONG (Burkina Faso),WUSAID, DED, IICD, Agence Canadienne de Dveloppem
International, and the Royal Tropical Institute in the Netherland
The revision of the Land Act has been a big step in our history. But rural stakeholders are st
waiting for greater involvement in land tenure policymaking, and ease of access to financi
resources from government authorities. The rural people are hungry for expanded technic
knowledge and to be equipped with the tools of effective conservation and natural resourc
management.
Marceline Ouedraogo, President
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