On Peace Day, 2008, BARKA Foundation unveiled the BARKA Burkina Consortium, a collaborative effort to co-create a new paradigm of development in Burkina Faso that is replicable and scalable.

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The BARKA Burkina Consortium joins together NGOs, UN and government agencies, businesses, schools, youth groups, women’s associations, faith-based and civic organizations, philanthropists, political leaders and interested parties in a united front to create a replicable and scalable model for achieving Millennium Development Goals in Burkina Faso through the UN’s target date of 2015.

• Utilization of the UN’s MDGs as a framework for eradicating extreme poverty
• CLEAN WATER accessibility as priority #1 and the central keystone in BARKA’s strategic and holistic approach to achieve MDGs
• Advocacy of human rights and cultural identity of indigenous peoples within its core methodology of “community-led” development
• Places women in a central role of decision-making and determination of best practices
• Focus on educational initiatives in both developing and developed countries
• Use of music and educational entertainment as a universal language for building peace
• Integration of indigenous and postmodern technologies