30. According to a “Study on Access to Justice in Burkina Faso”, conducted by the Ministry of
Justice and Human Rights Promotion in September, 2012, the connection between persons
subject to trial and the justice system was also given expression by the application of certain
mitigating measures with regard to certain legal expenses. These measures particularly target
the poorest strata of the population. The study also shows that civil society is involved in the
area of legal assistance to the people through legal aid offices, legal clinics as well as
counselling and guidance bodies. Depending on the type of case, CSOs are providing the
people with counselling support, reception, guidance, voluntary assistance and financial
assistance.
31. Efforts are being made to “educate” citizens by providing them with accurate and reassuring
information on justice. However, due to persistence of certain phenomena like illiteracy,
inadequacy of information on judicial procedures, poverty, etc. these efforts are inadequate
and still unable to produce the expected results. Mindful of this state of affairs, the
Government intends to strengthen the existing measures in order to fast track the attainment
of the results expected from the implementation of the national justice policy.
Strengthen literacy programmes for the benefit of the entire population
32. In 2011, the government adopted a national fast track literacy programme (PRONAA) which
aimed at attaining a literacy rate of 60% by 2015. To achieve this, 14,509 literacy centres
were opened during the 2011-2012 literacy year, as against 9,763 in 2010-2011. These
measures were made possible through the increase in funding for non-formal education and
the funding of 40 centres by UNICEF in the Ganzourgou and Namentenga provinces. The
enrolment of learners is summarized as follows:
Learners under the non-formal adult education module
Table 1: Enrolment Estimates for Literacy/Basic Training and Actual Figures
2009/2010
Levels
AI/N1
FCB/N
2
2010/2011
2011/2012
Estima
ted
Differenti Estimat
Actual
al
ed
Differenti Estim
al
ated
Actual
239 938
88124
-151 814
247 856
179042
-68 814
215 944 137801
-78 143
223 071
57561
-165 510
Actual
2012/2013
Est
Differ im
ential ate
d
Actual
143012
8
19065
104 715
127098
Sources : DEP/MENA/Memorandum on the ENF in Burkina Faso, January, 2010, DEP/MENA/Summary
of the 2012-2013 Statistical Yearbook, DGAENF, ENF Provisional Report, 2012-2013
33. With regard to literacy/basic training (AI/N1 and FCB/N2), the enrolment estimates were
never attained. For the 2010/2011 literacy year, the shortfall stood at 68,814 learners for the
AI/N1 and 165,510 for FCB/N2. This shortfall is partly explained by the decrease in
financing allocated to the National Literacy and Non-Formal Education Fund (FONAENF),
hence the introduction of a new module called the chain module.
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