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A selection of deforestation, pollution statistics (air and water pollution), as well as information on extractives activities, and their concessions/licences.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Available free of charge | No | it's hard to say if the data is free. to get these data, you often have to give money. But officially there is no law obliging to pay money |
| Downloadable | No | |
| Publicly available | No | Data on extractives activities and deforestation are available on some reports of organizations like World Bank group, UN-Environment for some areas considered as spots, but not on the whole country. The data on water quality is not |
| Openly licenced | No | |
| Up-to-date | No | |
| In an open and machine-readable format | ||
| Digital data | No | |
| Print data | No | |
| location | href="https://eiti.org/sites/default/files/spreadsheets/2015_burkina_faso_summary_data_san.xlsx" https://eiti.org/sites/default/files/spreadsheets/2015_">rel="nofollow">https://eiti.org/sites/default/files/spreadsheets/2015_ - EITI, https://www.itie-bf.gov.bf/spip.php?rubrique13 - government website, href="https://eiti.org/sites/default/files/documents/arrete_initiative_open_databurkin.." https://eiti.org/sites/default/files/documents/arrete_i">rel="nofollow">https://eiti.org/sites/default/files/documents/arrete_i - the local Open Data Initiative | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| findable_steps | searches were conducted on the internet. And based on our knowledge of the subject | |
| characteristics | None of the above | water quality: on the national office of water website, it is say that: (The quality of the water coming from the sewerage network: the quality of this water is checked at the exit of the network, in order to guarantee its reuse without risks in agriculture.) Which means that measurements are made to judge the quality of the water. In other words, this mean that water quality data exist. but these data are not available to the public (e.g, we don't know the percentage of calcium in the water) |
| Controlled access | No | https://eiti.org/explore-data-portal https://www.itie-bf.gov.bf/spip.php?rubrique13 https://eiti.org/sites/default/files/documents/arrete_initiative_open_databurkin... |
| Collector name | L'Office national de l'eau et de l'assainissement (ONEA), La Direction générale de la Préservation de l’Environnement, Open Data Burkina Faso |
Water: L'Office national de l'eau et de l'assainissement (ONEA) is contracted to maintain water quality according to national quality criteria. https://www.oneabf.com/images/stories/downloads/CONTRAT_PLAN_2007_-_2009.pdf Air pollution: La Direction générale de la Préservation de l’Environnement shall set up policies to protect the environment. This body shall also track air quality. (see here: https://www.environnement.gov.bf/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=193&Itemid=1039 UNDP published C02 emission statistics for the entire country by sector until 2012. These statistics have been provided by Burkina Faso’s Institut national de la statistique et de la démographie. Open Burkina also publishes air pollution stats for Ouagadougou: https://www.openburkina.bf/monitoring-de-la-qualite-de-lair-a-ouagadougou/ Extractives activities: EITI report from 2013 says that a licensing register shall be developed in the future. It is currently not available. Only the turn-over for entire extractives sector is published https://eiti.org/sites/default/files/documents/2013_burkina_faso_eiti_report_fr.pdf p. 69 When consulting Burkina Faso’s country page, there are links to mining ministry and a journal publishing contracts. The linked websites are unavailable. Deforestation Open Data Burkina Faso have created an entry for investments against deforestation which is empty: https://data.gov.bf/organization/programme-investissement-forestier No data could be found searching for “déforestation” AND “gov.bf”