The example of economic governance in Burkina Faso

Abstract

Burkina Faso like so many other African countries, adopted the Breton Woods Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP). The upshot of this participation was democratic openness, the high points of which were: the adoption of a new Constitution in June 1991 ; the organisation of debates on the institutional framework and the exercise of good governance with an affirmation by the Head of State of the need for a National Plan for Good Governance as a development tool and objective guaranteeing the full participation of all citizens in national development ; the reaffirmation of this need by the Prime Minister in 1995 at the second public administration annual conference. The main objective of this pilot program facilitated by experts from the International Labor Office (ILO) is in each company to set up a bipartite unit comprising representatives of employers and workers and tasked with promoting social dialogue between the two parties.