Professor of history and geography, high school principal of Tuy, an institution of 2,000 students, Mud Yazon first been elected alderman in 2000 before taking the keys of the town hall Hounde in 2006. Situated on the axis Ouagadougou-Bobo-Dioulasso, the town is composed of Hounde city Hounde and 15 villages and has about 82,000 inhabitants, the largest being the Bwaba..
Primarily agricultural, like most of the 49 municipalities of Burkina, the team relies on low municipal tax revenue, but also on decentralized cooperation to finance the development of the town. With this in mind that the mayor and his deputy have stayed mid-June in France to explore avenues for partnership with the actors of decentralized cooperation. For, Mud Yazon explains the policy he has instituted since his arrival and how he hopes to raise to finance its development program.
I am in my first term since I was elected in 2006. With the team around me, I developed a plan of municipal development 2010-2014 and we are working on its implementation. The diagnosis we have made the situation of the municipality has identified three strategic areas: areas that are economically porters, mobilize resources to develop them, and finally qualified human resources to realize this plan.
Our agriculture is based on rainfed and we definitely need to find other ways to occupy people during the offseason. So we need to build dams and diversify production. In the livestock sector, we must also find ways to modernize it since the moment is kind of craft. In social terms, in the fight against poverty, it is urgent to improve people’s access to basic minimum services. For this, we started to rehabilitate and construct schools, health centers, as well as water and sanitation.