viii. ix. participation to public activities and the management of community affairs; Law No. 013-98/AN of 28 April 1998 as amended by Law No.0192005/AN of 18 May 2005 on the legal status applicable to employment and civil servants, which guarantees access to public employment for all persons without any discrimination based on gender; The Persons and Family Code of 1989, which aims to improve the legal status and social protection of women and children, and establishes the legal bases for social justice within the family. Government institutions dealing with issues related to the Protocol 39. The Commission takes note of the establishment of the following institutions: i. ii. iii. iv. The Ministry of Women’s Affairs and Gender, established on 10 June 1997 by Decree No. 97-270/PRES/PM. Its main mission consists of ensuring the implementation and monitoring of government policies in the area of the socioeconomic development of women. In 2012, the gender aspect was included and its name changed to the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and Gender (MPFG). The MPFG has thirteen (13) regional offices responsible for the implementation and monitoring of the missions assigned to the Ministry within their territorial jurisdictions. There are also Women’s Centres in all the provinces of Burkina Faso, established to assist in promoting the development of Burkinabe women through provision of support for setting up projects, implementing economic activities, etc. Facilitators from the MPFG are in charge of the supervision of women; The Ministry of Justice, Human Rights and Civic Promotion, which is responsible for the implementation of the government’s human rights policies and civic development. Through its agency responsible for protection against human rights abuses, the Ministry ensures the promotion and protection of the rights of certain categories of persons, including the rights of women; The institutional and ministerial units for the promotion of gender, which are under the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and Gender (MPGF) and exist in all government ministries and institutions across the country. They are responsible for ensuring the integration of the gender dimension into the plans and programmes of their respective institutions or ministries, with the technical support of the Permanent Secretariat of the National Gender Promotion Council (SP/CONAP-Genre); The Regional and Communal Gender Promotion Councils, which promote gender at the community level, with the mandate to: - Implement the national gender policy at the level of the regions; - Integrate gender into local development plans; - Systematically integrate gender into all planning documents; 13