Burkina Faso
Strategies for youth employment
- Strategies for youth employment
- Yes
Youth employment strategy planned in the next 2 years
- Discussions within the government
- Yes
- Consultations with national-level stakeholders (e.g. employers’ and workers’ associations, youth councils, etc.)
- Yes
- A draft strategy already exists
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- Yes
Countries with national action plans for youth employment
- Monitoring framework (timeline and activity/outcome indicators, e.g. youth labour market indicators)
- Yes
- Funding (indicative budget to implement the plan)
- Yes
- Institutional responsibilities (e.g. ministries/agencies in charge of specific planned activities )
- Yes
- Other, specify
- No
Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
The Ministry of Sport, Youth and Employment is responsible for implementing the strategy.Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
Youth are included as a target group in Burkina Faso’s national employment and sectoral policies. • In the National Employment Policy, there is a specific immediate objective to strengthen targeted actions to promote employment, including the promotion of youth employment (Objective a). In addition, Strategic Objective 3 focuses on improving employability, with youth as a key target group. • In the Sectoral Policy on Labour, Employment and Social Protection, several actions specifically refer to young people: ∙ EA.1.1.5: Targeted action to promote decent work is strengthened; ∙ EA.2.1.2: Access to employment for the labour force, particularly youth and women, is improved; ∙ EA.1.2.3: The employability of youth and women is enhanced.Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
Burkina Faso has introduced initiatives to promote youth employment, particularly through support for entrepreneurship and the agricultural sector. Such measures include: • The promotion of community-based entrepreneurship, supported by the establishment of the Agency for the Promotion of Community Entrepreneurship (APEC); • The implementation of the Agropastoral and Fisheries Offensive, aimed at boosting job creation in agriculture, livestock, and fisheries sectors.Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Yes
Policy areas in national youth employment strategies
- Macroeconomic and Sectoral policies
- Yes
- Enterprise Development
- Yes
- Education, Training and skills development
- Yes
- Labour Demand
- Yes
- Labour Law and Legislation
- Yes
- Labour Market Policies
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- No
Social partners' inclusion in the youth employment strategy
- Workers
- Implementation of youth employment strategies/programmes (e.g. social partners as official implementers of the strategy or programme)
- Fully involved
- Assessment of youth employability (alignment of youth qualifications and skills to labour market needs)
- Fully involved
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Consulted
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Fully involved
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Employers
- Implementation of youth employment strategies/programmes (e.g. social partners as official implementers of the strategy or programme)
- Fully involved
- Assessment of youth employability (alignment of youth qualifications and skills to labour market needs)
- Fully involved
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Fully involved
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Fully involved
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
Youth-led organizatios' inclusion in the national strategy
- Fully involved
- Yes
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- No
- Consulted
- No
- Informed
- No
- Not involved
- No
Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
2025 Yes, for example, there is the public-private partnership charter for vocational training and integration, and there are also specific partnership agreements such as the agreement between the ANPE (French National Employment Agency) and the National Employers' Council. 2020 For example, the project to support vocational training and apprenticeship, carried by the National Council of Burkinabe Employers and which is the result of a public-private partnership signed between the Government, Employers, and Civil Society Organisations. This project offers dual training to improve the employability of young people.Inclusiveness of vulnerable groups in national strategies
- Women
- Yes
- Migrant Workers
- Yes
- NEETs
- No
- People with disabilities
- Yes
- Low skilled workers
- Yes
- Rural workers
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- Yes
Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Yes
Additional information:
Technical support (ILO); Youth Employment and Skills Development Project (World Bank); Support Project for Improving Youth Employability and Skills Development in Rural Areas (African Development Bank); Women and Youth Entrepreneurship and Citizenship Project (UNDP); Job Booster (UNDP); Project to Support Vocational Training and Apprenticeship (Switzerland).