18 were traditional and religious authorities and representatives of CSOs, representatives of youth organizations as well public service officials. 1.8. Promoting women’s rights The key activity in this area was the holding in Ouagadougou in September 2012 of the national women’s forum, which reaffirmed the need to empower women, through training, to promote female entrepreneurship, create jobs, and facilitate access of women to technologies. To meet these challenges, there is a need to combine the efforts of the State and its partners to mobilize CFAF 25 billion by 2013. However, considerable challenges remain to be met as stressed by the Minister for Promotion of Women and Gender in these terms: “We should now act in the field, know on which sector to focus, ensure economic empowerment of women, their access to credit and public services, support them technologically, strive to train those who have been elected so that they can defend women’s rights and qualitatively represent women”. Indeed, Law 010-2009 AN of 16 April 2009 on fixing of quotas was tested in the combined elections of 2 December 2012 and did not produce the expected results. The law, which should contribute to increase the number of women in decision-making bodies through elections did not benefit from the necessary technical, financial and material support. With the application of the law on quotas, the number of women at the National Assembly has increased to twenty-four (24) out of 127 MPs. There are also twenty-one (21) (women) mayors out of 351, representing a rate of 5.68% and 3,896 Councillors out of 17,800, or a rate of 21.89% 35.80%.