Burkina Faso

The ILO has been the executing agency for labour-based rural and urban infrastructure programmes, including a major rural sector "Special Public Works Programme" during the early to mid 1980s. During the 1990's, the engagement of the ILO has evolved towards demonstration activities in new fields (urban infrastructure, street paving, rural access roads, access road construction). The ILO has been the executing agency for an urban upgrading project in the secondary town of Kaya. This project involves components in erosion control, drainage, market rehabilitation and street paving using small contractors and labour-intensive methods. The ILO has developed a programme proposal which would "go to scale" by introducing employment and social protection concerns into major World Bank intensive programmes, including the Third Urban Project and Transport Sector Project (rural roads component). This proposal remains relevant and could possibly be harmonized with the development of a proposed Social Development Fund.

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