| Armand Béouindé | |
| Office: | Mayor of Ouagadougou |
| Birth Name: | Armand Roland Pierre Béouindé |
| Birth Date: | November 11, 1962 |
| Birth Place: | Kaya, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) |
| Term Start: | June 18, 2016 |
| Term End: | 2022 |
| Party: | CDP (1990–2014) MPP (2014-present) |
Armand Roland Pierre Béouindé is a Burkinabe politician who served as the mayor of Ouagadougou between 2016 and 2022.[1]
Béouindé was born on November 11, 1962, in Kaya, then Upper Volta.[2] [3] Before becoming mayor, he served as a training manager and is the director of several companies; he's the commercial director of Alpha-Press, commercial director of Graphi Service, and general director of Graphi Imprim.[4] Béouindé also served as the vice-president for the Association for Integrity and Stable Development of Burkina Faso (A2DI), a coordinator at a managerial training group, and as the former president of ASFA Yennenga.[5]
Politically, Béouindé was originally a part of Blaise Compaoré's political party Congress for Democracy and Progress (CDP), but left with Roch Marc Christian Kaboré and other friends of his after the 2014 Burkina Faso uprising.[3] [5] He co-founded the People's Movement for Progress (MPP) with Kabore later that year, and served as a campaign manager for Kabore's election campaign in 2015.[5]
Béouindé was elected as the mayor of Ouagadougou on June 18, 2016.[2] [5] As mayor, his development plan for the city was dubbed Ouaga21, named for his deadline and final year in power in 2021.[5] Ouaga21 focused mainly on security in the city, environmental issues, and mobility.[2] He also made plans to increase water availability and other key resources to the city, earning the money by increasing tax availability and transparency.[6] A key tenet of Béouindé's policies in the city were expanding social welfare programs and promoting diversity, although this sometimes caused financial issues.[7] [8]