The International Women's Day (IWD) in Burkina Faso is often an opportunity to express the joy of a whole nation because there is an improvement in women's rights. Improvements are made in several areas (social-health, economics, politics...).
In Burkina Faso, a reference framework for change in women's rights, the Beijing Action Program (BAP), allows changes to be measured in all areas. Other frameworks for reflection exist and in 2021, the national meeting of the Forum Génération Egalité held from May 20 to 21, 2021 was an opportunity to review women's rights.
Business and Professional Women (BPW) Burkina monitors all of this and on the occasion of the IWD we are pleased with the progress made in the area of sexual and reproductive health.
Doctor Josiane OUEDRAOGO provides an update in the table below (extract from the national meeting Generation Equality Forum held on May 20-21, 2021).
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Main strategies implemented by Burkina Faso in SRH |
✓Integration of Family Planning (FP) into the National Economic and Social Development Plan (PNDES) |
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✓Development of the National Family Planning Acceleration Plan (PNAPF2017-2020) and the new 2021-2025 plan being developed |
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✓Family Planning task delegation policy |
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✓Adoption of the policy on free FP care and services |
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✓Revision of the public health code and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) policies, standards and protocols |
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✓Cervical cancer control policies and initiatives (free screening and treatment of pre-cancerous lesions, since 2016 the prospect of introducing the human papilloma virus infection vaccine into routine vaccination…) |
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✓Three Transforming Results (3RT)
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✓Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent-youth, and Nutrition Health (RMNCAH) |
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Burkina Faso commitments to sexual and reproductive health |
✓Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) |
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✓Burkina Faso's commitments at ICPD+25 in Nairobi |
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✓FP2020 commitments and ongoing FP 2030 ongoing re-engagement |
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✓Agenda 2063 of the African Union |
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✓African Union Roadmap on " Leveraging the Demographic Dividend by Investing in Youth |
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