Analyse: Facteurs de vulnérabilités à la propagation du COVID-19 à Kaya, Centre-Nord

The growing number of COVID-19 cases in Burkina Faso is threatening to overwhelm the country’s war-weakened health system and complicate efforts to respond to one of the world’s fastest-growing displacement crises.

As of March 25, 2020, over 80,000 IDPs have been registered in Kaya town and neighbouring villages of the commune of Kaya. Among the IDPs that have settled in Kaya town, many live in overcrowded shelters and face severe constraints to meet their basic needs due to increasing pressures on services and resources.

In order to support the planning of the humanitarian response to the COVID-19 virus, REACH undertook a synthesis of the relevant data collected in the city of Kaya in February 2020 during an exercise of mapping of basic infrastructure and multisectoral needs assessment.