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Secretary-general of the Burkinabe Red Cross Society
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 March 2022
Lazare W. Zoungrana has been doing humanitarian work for the Burkinabe Red Cross Society for more than twenty years and has been its secretary-general since 2010.
Trained in sociology, with a research master's degree in information and communication science, Mr Zoungrana has brought his skills to a range of humanitarian activities, from development and emergency programmes to the organizational development and capacity-building of the Burkinabe Red Cross. He is specialized in project management, gender and education, international humanitarian law and training trainers in various aspects of humanitarian action.
Mr Zoungrana has coordinated several operations led by the Burkinabe Red Cross, including: providing assistance to victims of the Ouagadougou floods in 2009, victims of terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Malian refugees and people affected by armed violence in the country; and carrying out activities in response to meningitis epidemics and, most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic.
At the international level, Mr Zoungrana has sat as a committee chairman or a panellist on various round tables. He was a member of the multinational team charged with assessing and coordinating the humanitarian response to the earthquake in Haiti and has been a member of several multinational working groups, including one tasked with developing the restoring family links strategy for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
This interview was conducted by Bruno Demeyere, Editor-in-Chief of the International Review of the Red Cross. In March 2022, after the conclusion and publication of this interview, Mr. Zoungrana was appointed as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and National Solidarity of Burkina Faso.
1 Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Latest Updates on the COVID-19 Crisis from Africa CDC, available at: https://africacdc.org/covid-19 (all internet references were accessed in February 2022).
2 International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), “Burkina Faso: When Water Scarcity Meets Conflict”, 16 June 2021, available at https://www.icrc.org/en/document/burkina-faso-water-scarcity-conflict.
3 ICRC, “Abidjan - projet musical: L'homme, un remède pour l'homme (in French)”, 26 August 2002, available at: https://www.icrc.org/fr/doc/resources/documents/misc/cote-d-ivoire-pm-2002-130404.htm.