Balo Kendö: Strengthening local policies and promoting sustainable agriculture for food security in Forested Guinea

About this project

The decentralized cooperation project between the Municipality of Cuneo (Piedmont, Italy) and the Municipality of Kissidougou (Faranah, Guinea) has its foundations in previous food security projects carried out by the various partners, during which a picture of weaknesses of the local food policies emerged. In fact, within the Prefecture, no municipality has a local development plan (Plan de Développement Local, PDL) capable of including the various stakeholders and carrying out adequate, sustainable and climate-resilient policies. The Municipality of Cuneo, thanks to its expertise in terms of local food policies, has found many similarities with the Municipality of Kissidougou, also the capital of a prefecture in which the population is mainly rural and agricultural. The project therefore aims to contribute improving food security and resilience to climate change, with an objective of reducing moderate or severe food insecurity by 5% assessed according to the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES scale) of urban communities and rural areas of Kissidougou Prefecture.In order to achieve this objective, it is intended to increase and diversify agricultural production, and consequently the nutritional status of the population that has access to it, in the 13 municipalities of the Prefecture, in a sustainable and resilient way to climate change, through the strengthening of the process of local planning. This will be made possible thanks to the achievement of the outputs of the…

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 2Zero Hunger
• 5Gender Equality
• 11Sustainable Cities and Communities
• 13Climate Action
• 15Life on Land

Published by

AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development · Government

Countries

Guinea

Sectors

Democratic participation and civil societyLocal government administrationAgricultural developmentFood security policy and administrative management

Focus

Gender equality · Also contributesNutrition · Main focusGood governance · Main focusBiodiversity · Also contributesClimate mitigation · Also contributesClimate adaptation · Main focus

Funded by

AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development

Implemented by

COMUNE DI CUNEO

Accountable

AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development

Published by AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 5 Sept 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-6-4-013244-02-1.

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