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BURKINA FASO COUNTRY PROFILE UNFPA–UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage © UNICEF/UN0351797/Tremeau BURKINA FASO COUNTRY PROFILE 0% Burkina Faso is home to 10% 3 million child brides. 20% Of these, 500,000 30% married before age 15. 40% 50% Source: UNICEF global databases, 3 million 2020. Demographic data are Married before age 18 60% from United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 70% Population Division (2019). World Population Prospects 2019, Online 80% Edition. Rev. 1. 90% Notes: For details on the calculation of girls and women married in 500,000 100% childhood, see: United Nations Married before age 15 Children’s Fund, Child Marriage: Latest trends and future prospects, Percentage of women aged 20 to 24 years who were first married UNICEF, New York, 2018. Estimates or in union before age 18 refer to population year 2019. Values below 2 million are rounded to Note: This map is stylized and not to scale. It does not reflect a position by the nearest hundred thousand; those UNFPA or UNICEF on the legal status of any country or area or the delimitation above 2 million are rounded to the of any frontiers. Source for child marriage prevalence data is the Burkina Faso nearest million. Demographic and Health Survey 2010. Before age 15 Before age 18 Percentage of women 100 aged 20 to 24 years 90 who were first married 80 or in union before age 15 and before age 18 70 60 Source: Burkina Faso Demographic 52 and Health Survey 2010 50 50 Note: This trend analysis is based on the prevalence of child marriage 40 across age cohorts, as measured in the latest available survey. 30 20 10 10 7 0 1 98 5 1 990 1 995 2000 2005 2010 Projections are not shown for Burkina Faso as the country does not show evidence of progress in reducing the prevalence of child marriage, so it is not possible to build on observed rates of change. The projected prevalence will remain the same as today’s levels until signs of progress are evident. 2 Country Profile of Phase I: UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage BURKINA FASO Message from UNFPA and UNICEF In Burkina Faso, one in two girls are married before the Burkina Faso country representatives age of 18. Rooted in gender inequalities, child marriage prevents girls and women from enjoying their rights and achieving their full potential. Ending this practice means empowering girls to be healthy, to continue their education and to participate actively in development. At the International Conference on Population and Development in 2019 (ICPD25), governments made strong commitments to end gender-based violence and harmful practices, particularly child marriage. Indeed, if significant progress is not made towards ending child marriage, the achievement of eight Sustainable Development Goals will be jeopardized. Phase I of the Global Programme laid the foundations for a change in the values and social norms that legitimize this practice. We want to empower adolescent girls to make choices and decide when and who they should marry. That is why we remain committed to continuing our initiatives to make the elimination of this practice a reality by 2030. Auguste J. Kpognon Anne H. Vincent UNFPA Burkina Faso country representative UNICEF Burkina Faso country representative Country Profile of Phase I: UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage 3 BURKINA FASO Country movement to accelerate action In Phase I, the Global Programme in Burkina Faso to end child marriage: Key moments and deepened partnership with the government to achievements of Phase I accelerate action to end child marriage and provided data and evidence with advocacy to promote policy change and legal reform at various levels. Significant achievements in Burkina Faso since the inception of the Global Programme include: 418,267 69,384 533,910 adolescent girls adolescent girls individuals in have participated aged 10-19 the community in at least one programme have been were engaged and intervention aimed at supported regularly participated empowering them with skills by the programme to in dialogues promoting gender- and information to delay enrol and continue with equitable norms including child marriage. their education in order to delaying child marriage. delay child marriage. Burkina Faso has co-sponsored 2,000 the United Nations General Concerted advocacy and villages in areas with the highest Assembly resolution on support resulted in inclusion child marriage prevalence made eliminating child, of comprehensive sexuality open declarations to end child education in the school marriage following participation early and forced curriculum aimed at elimination in a series of marriage. of child marriage and FGM. In addition to the First Lady community-based of Burkina Faso’s regional The Quality Child-Friendly School activities. initiative to lead and convene (QCFS) approach piloted during the inception of the Global the African First Ladies Over conference to eliminate child Programme was institutionalized marriage and female genital with training of 43,000 primary school teachers using the national 3.1 million mutilation (FGM), the First Lady led bilateral advocacy budget, and resulted in an people in programme areas that has resulted in eight increase from were reached with mass media campaigns to end ministries incorporating 151 to 1,343 gender-sensitive budgeting. primary schools child marriage. providing quality education for adolescent girls by 2019. in 2015 in 2017 in 2018 in 2019 the National Strategy for the a budget line was allocated for a multi-stakeholder platform the National Plan of Action to Prevention and Elimination of implementation of the costed was established to support end child marriage received a Child Marriage (2016–2025) National Plan of Action for the implementation of the National contribution of US$1 million from with a costed National Plan prevention and elimination of Strategy for the Prevention and the World Bank through support of Action (2016–2018) child marriage (2016–2018). Elimination of Child Marriage. from the government project was adopted. Sahel Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Dividend Project (‘sukabe rewle’) for the ending of child marriage. 4 Country Profile of Phase I: UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage BURKINA FASO Phase I Country Programme Strategies ■ Increasing community empowerment and social mobilization to promote positive social norms and UNFPA and UNICEF Burkina Faso are implementing behavioural changes in favour of girls’ rights. a holistic and cross-sectoral approach to end child ■ Evidence generation and knowledge management. marriage involving gender-transformative approaches Support for the coordination of the national across the sectors of child protection, education, ■ strategy for ending child marriage. water, sanitation and hygiene and communication for development. The main strategies include: These strategies are in line with the 2016–2025 national ■ Innovative advocacy for political commitment to strategy to prevent and eliminate child marriage in end child marriage. Burkina Faso. It is the main reference for partners who support the government and a consultative document. ■ Provision of cross-sector quality service delivery It was developed through a participatory, intersectoral for adolescents. and multidisciplinary process. ■ Economic empowerment of unmarried and It includes five key components: married adolescent girls aged 15–19. ■ Strengthening adolescent girls’ life skills, and 1. Analysis of child marriage stating the actors knowledge of sexual and reproductive health and involved, past approaches, including their gender-based violence. strengths and weaknesses, as well as the opportunities, threats and lessons learned on ■ Strengthening the health system to provide actions already undertaken in the field; reproductive health services for adolescent girls. 2. Foundations, vision, guiding principles and ■ Promotion of positive masculinity among girls their objectives; and boys, men and women, as part of the gender- transformative key intervention. 3. Funding and their sources; ■ Capacity strengthening of stakeholders, including 4. Organizational framework and monitoring and child protection, education and health. evaluation mechanisms for activities follow-up; 5. Risks and mitigations for effective implementation of the strategies. © UNICEF/UNI280369/Tremeau Country Profile of Phase I: UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage 5 BURKINA FASO Country programme EMPOWER ADOLESCENT GIRLS strategies Door-to-door Creating Developing girls’ skills recruitment and opportunities for for employability and training of girls on life girls’ accelerated financial literacy skills and sexual and learning reproductive health ENHANCE THE ACCESSIBILITY AND QUALITY OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND PROTECTION SERVICES Developing utilization Formation of Capacity-building of service delivery child protection through training of guides and booklets committees social workers Capacity-building of Strengthening of teachers on quality referral mechanisms child-friendly school through reinforcement approach of providers’ skills FOSTER AN ENABLING LEGAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORK Capacity-building Providing data and Supporting through training of evidence to promote development of a parliamentarians policy change and national plan of action legal reform OFFER ECONOMIC SUPPORT AND INCENTIVES FOR GIRLS AND THEIR FAMILIES EDUCATE AND MOBILIZE PARENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS Leveraging other Participatory Harmonizing funding streams to dialogues with