Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 2014, publiée 104ème session CIT (2015)

Convention (n° 142) sur la mise en valeur des ressources humaines, 1975 - Burkina Faso (Ratification: 2009)

Article 1 of the Convention. Implementation of education and training policies and programmes. In response to the previous comments, the Government refers in its report to the Sectoral Technical and Vocational Education and Training Policy Support Programme that was developed and implemented in 2013, the overall objective of which is to improve the knowledge and skills of the economically active population, and particularly of young persons. The Committee notes the building of the Vocational Training Reference Centre of Ziniaré (CFPR/Z) and the information on those who have completed its vocational and technical training. The Government adds that the Directorate for the Promotion of Girls’ Education and Gender of the Ministry of Secondary and Higher Education (MESS) participates each year in the provision of grants to girls in difficulty to attend national primary teacher training colleges. Moreover, literacy programmes for members of the Teaching Mothers Associations (AMEs) are planned under the National Strategy to Accelerate Girls’ Education (SNAEF); the Government indicates that close to 1,963 AMEs have received financial support. The Committee invites the Government to continue providing information on the implementation of programmes of vocational guidance and vocational training, closely linked to employment needs, and to report on the outcome. Moreover, the Committee invites the Government to indicate the results achieved in terms of vocational training through the measures taken with a view to encouraging and enabling all persons, on an equal basis and without any discrimination whatsoever, to develop and use their capabilities for work in their own best interests and in accordance with their own aspirations.

Article 2. Vocational education and training system. The Committee notes the detailed information provided by the Government on the organization of the education system in Burkina Faso. The Government indicates that the reformed education system highlights the functional ties and links between the various types and categories of education and technical and vocational training. The Committee invites the Government to continue providing updated information on the manner in which open, flexible and complementary systems of general, technical and vocational education, educational and vocational guidance and vocational training have been established.

Article 3. Information for vocational guidance purposes. The Government indicates that the National Centre for Information, Educational and Vocational Guidance and Grants (CIOSPB) has a guidance information system primarily for students in Burkina Faso. The Committee notes that the CIOPSB’s objectives for 2015 include increasing the rate of information coverage of educational establishments to 80 per cent and the rate of production and acquisition of information and guidance documents to 70 per cent, as well as training in guidance techniques for all the CIOSPB’s guidance counsellors and respondents in the 13 regional directorates of the MESS. The Committee invites the Government to continue indicating the measures which ensure that comprehensive information and the broadest possible guidance are made available to all those concerned. The Committee also invites the Government to describe the type of information made available for vocational guidance purposes and to supply copies of the documentation made available.

Article 4. Lifelong learning. The Committee once again invites the Government to indicate the measures taken with a view to extending systems of vocational training to cover fields of economic activity not previously within their scope and to ensure that they are adapted to the changing requirements of individuals throughout their life, as well as to those of the economy and of the different branches of economic activity.

Article 5. Cooperation with employers’ and workers’ organizations. The Committee once again invites the Government to provide examples of the manner in which the cooperation of employers’ and workers’ organizations and, where applicable, other interested bodies is assured in the formulation and implementation of vocational guidance and vocational training policies and programmes.

Part VI of the report form. Application of the Convention in practice. The Committee once again invites the Government to provide extracts of reports, studies and inquiries, statistical data, etc., on the vocational guidance and vocational training policies and programmes that are being implemented.