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workshops and/or returned to their families. Also, thirteen (13) victims of
child trafficking were intercepted and returned to their families, while fifteen
(15) cases of kidnapping and forced marriage were resolved.
With regard to caring for children without families, seventy-six (76) children
were placed in foster families or an institution. In addition, 156 other
children were received, offered accommodation and care at the Ouagadougou
Children’s Home.
The offer of care to children without families was pursued with the supply of
milk to 14 children, to the tune of eight hundred and seventy thousand nine
hundred and seventy (870,970) CFA francs and offer of financial support of
nearly four million (4,000,000) CFA francs to six (06) Centre d’Accueil pour
les Enfants en Détresse (CAED) and four (4) foster families.
With regard to the promotion of the rights of children, 875 sensitization
sessions (discussions, film debates, forum theatres, radio programmes, etc.)
were organized for more than 52,000 people, including 33,781 women and
18,219 men. Similarly, 54 members of parent-teacher associations and peer
educators, and 111 municipal councillors were trained on child rights.
Besides, civil status papers were established for 2,000 children.
As part of the commemoration of the Month of the Mother and Child, the
Day of the African Child was organized in Koudougou on 16 June on the
theme:
"Abolishing
corporal
punishment
of
children:
our
collective
responsibility”. Several activities (conferences, advocacy, inauguration of the
square dedicated to the child and laying the cornerstone of the monument of
the child, sports...) aimed at promoting the rights of the child were carried
out on this occasion.
1.11. Promoting social dialogue and participative governance
In the context of the promotion of social dialogue, several forums were
organized in 2012. In addition to existing frameworks (the meetings between
the Government and private sector, between the Government and trade
unions, the national women’s forum, the national youth forum) the