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Partnership
ILO strengthens its commitment to decent work in the Sahel
A mission by the ILO Director-General to Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger highlights the central role of decent work in promoting stability, resilience and inclusive development across the Alliance of Sahel States.
Media advisory
ILO Director General to strengthen partnerships for decent work in the Sahel
The Director-General of the ILO, Gilbert F. Houngbo, is embarking on a mission to the countries of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) from 5 to 15 April 2026. The aim is to strengthen partnerships to promote decent work, a cornerstone of stability...
More than half of workers face violence and harassment in three West African countries, new ILO research reveals
Multidisciplinary research in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, and Senegal sheds new light on the pervasive and profound effects of violence and harassment in the world of work, a universal phenomenon that spares no country, and calls for inclusive,...
Youth employment
ILO and WAEMU strengthen cooperation on youth employment
The ILO and WAEMU held high-level discussions in Ouagadougou to advance a joint programme aimed at promoting decent employment for young people in the WAEMU region over the period 2026–2030.
Creating decent jobs through infrastructure: EIIP’s impact in Francophone West Africa
With ILO support, countries are applying employment-intensive approaches to create decent jobs, strengthen local capacities, and build resilience in communities.
Social protection
The Universal Health Insurance Scheme (RAMU) is being set up in Burkina Faso
Five decrees implementing on the Universal Health Insurance Scheme (RAMU) adopted by the Council of Ministers
Towards SDG Target 8.7: prevention and elimination of child labour in Burkina Faso’s cotton production sector.
Child labour is present in the garment, textile and cotton supply chain in multiple countries around the world. It is found particularly in Africa and Asia where cotton production systems are labour intensive and/or are dominated by small-holder...
Child labour
To fight child labour in Burkina Faso, education stakeholders built their capacities in Koudougou
The Permanent Secretariat of the Accelerated Schooling Strategy (Stratégie de Scolarisation Accélérée/Passerelle - SSA/P) of the Ministry of Education, Literacy and promotion of National Languages of Burkina Faso strengthen its action against child...
ILO Voices | Child labour
A child should go to school, not to work
Domboué Nibéissé was 9 years old when he stopped going to school and started to work in the cotton fields in Burkina Faso. Difficult and tiring work, two years later he was given an opportunity to return to school.
Child and forced labour
Burkina cotton producers adopt a strategic plan against child labour with the support of the CLEAR Cotton project
The National Union of Cotton Producers' Cooperative Societies of Burkina Faso (SCOOP-UNPCB) is involved in the fight against child and forced labour. Meeting from the 2nd to the 3rd December 2021 in Bobo Dioulasso, the elected representatives and...
Child labour in Burkina Faso
Prevention of child labour through the socio-professional reintegration of children withdrawn from the cotton, textile and garment value...
Ouagadougou (ILO News) - The CLEAR Cotton project is strengthening its strategy to combat child labour in Burkina Faso. It recently signed two agreements for the implementation of integrated programmes for the prevention, identification and...
Child labour
The CLEAR Cotton project offers education opportunities as an alternative to child labour in the cotton fields
The CLEAR Cotton project contributes to national efforts to eliminate child labour in the cotton, textile and garment value chain in Burkina Faso, Mali, Pakistan and Peru.
World Youth Skills Day
Quality apprenticeships for young people in Burkina Faso
150 young apprentices trained thanks to the project Support to the Global Initiative for Decent Youth Employment in the Sahel, whose primary objective is to promote quality apprenticeship systems and youth employment.
Eliminating child labour
The CLEAR Cotton project works with the Government of Burkina Faso to say no to child labour
The CLEAR Cotton project and the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Protection committed to the fight against child labour in Burkina Faso during a “Week of Action” to mark World Day Against Child Labour.
#EndChildLabour2021
World Day Against Child Labour in Africa: Opening remarks by Ms Cynthia Samuel-Olonjuwon, ILO Assistant Director-General, Regional Director...
#EndChildLabour2021
Media Advisory- Event to mark the World Day Against Child Labour in Africa
Join us for a regional virtual event to commemorate the World Day against Child Labour.
AU, ILO and UNICEF mark the World Day against Child Labour in Africa
The African Union, ILO and UNICEF organized a virtual Continental event to mark the World Day against Child Labour. The event brought together key actors, to discuss strategies to address child labour, taking a holistic and systemic approach based...
Child labour in time of COVID
Combating child labour in times of COVID-19: the example of the CLEAR Cotton project
The CLEAR Cotton project implements the Accelerated Schooling Strategy (Stratégie de scolarisation accélérée – passerelle - SSA/P) in Burkina Faso and Mali, in order to withdraw children from cotton fields and send them back to school. During the...
International Migrants Day
African journalists win awards for excellence in labour migration reporting
New ILO - Belgium programme
Supporting Burkina Faso and Senegal to promote social protection
The Government of Belgium and the International Labour Organization will support the strengthening and extension of national social protection systems in Burkina Faso and Senegal to increase coverage of informal economy workers and their families,...