EXECUTIVE SUMMARY _____________________________________________________________________ Good practices • Burkina Faso: regional ombudsman and peacemaker in Africa • The national citizenship week • Anti-corruption committees in the Burkinabe police service • Women’s houses • When the authorities are an example to follow! • Computerising the expenditure chain to ensure more transparent management • Efficient cash management contributes to better budget projection • Transparent customs management increases tax productivity • The GODE Craft Production Unit (UAP) • The Networks of Popular Banks of Burkina Faso (RCPB) • The National Youth Forum and its consequences on the youth employment policy 8. CONCLUSION 8.1 Other practices deserve special mention by the CRM, notably National Farmers’ Day (JNP); the Government and Unions Forum; the Government and the Private Sector Forum; the National Cultural Week; the SIAO, which is the invention and craft industry fair of Ouagadougou; the Burkina Tour, which has become an African cycling sports event; and, of course, the pan-African film festival FESPACO. 8.2 The APR Panel appreciates and values all the efforts made by the authorities of Burkina Faso to address the challenges of implementing the programme of action, and to assume the challenges of democratisating the SHD process with so much determination. On the path of this construction, there are constraints and risks to which Burkina should remain attentive and to which it should find solutions for executing the action plan with the participation, and for the benefit, of all stakeholders. This determination should be effectively expressed through the elimination of the constraints, some of which could even constitute risks. 8.3 Among these constraints, there is a need to stress in particular the mode of ‘blocking’ the democracy and multiparty system, which is somewhat stifled by the omnipresent weight and domination of the majority party on the Burkina political scene. This constitutes an issue of concern. The pernicious separation between the leaders and institutions of the republic on the one hand, and the populations on the other, prepared the ground for increasing inequalities at the 33