Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 2006, Publicación: 96ª reunión CIT (2007)

Convenio sobre la readaptación profesional y el empleo (personas inválidas), 1983 (núm. 159) - Burkina Faso (Ratificación : 1989)

The Committee notes the Government’s report received in June 2006, which refers to previous reports without providing any information in response to the comments that the Committee has been making since 2001. The Committee trusts that the Government’s next report will contain updated and relevant information on the application of the Convention in practice (Part V of the report form) and detailed information on the following points.

1. Implementation of a national policy on vocational rehabilitation and employment for persons with disabilities. In its 2001 comments, the Committee noted the existence of rehabilitation centres which are run by the State, privately or by associations of person with disabilities. The Committee asks the Government to indicate how the national policy on vocational rehabilitation and employment for persons with disabilities is implemented and what measures have been taken, particularly with regard to vocational guidance and training, and placement, to promote employment opportunities for persons with disabilities in the open labour market (Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention). Please also indicate the manner in which representative employers’ and workers’ organizations, and representative organizations of and for persons with disabilities, are consulted in practice on the implementation of this national policy (Article 5).

2. Evaluation and adaptation of vocational rehabilitation and employment services for persons with disabilities. In its 2001 comments, the Committee noted that services responsible for the matters referred to in Article 7 were regularly assessed so that they could be adapted. The Committee asks the Government to indicate in detail the content of the assessments carried out, together with the adaptations proposed, adopted or envisaged to enable persons with disabilities to secure, retain and advance in employment.

3. Rural areas and remote communities. In its previous comments, the Committee noted that bodies and associations for persons with disabilities had been established in the provinces. The Committee asks the Government to provide information on these associations and, in particular, to indicate the rural areas and remote communities in which they are based and the activities they undertake relating to vocational rehabilitation and employment services for persons with disabilities (Article 8).

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2007.]