12 of government staff by employment, category, age, level of remuneration can be used for salary forecasting. Concerning human governance, to have an exact assessment of state agents, the biometric census of public service workers was organized in 2012, on the entire national territory with the help of a private operator, GEMADEC. The operation was carried out in two phases. The first was conducted from 28 May to 5 August 2012 and resulted in enlisting 113,819 agents paid from state budget. The second phase took place from 3 to 15 December 2012 and resulted in the identification of 5,442 late agents paid from state budget. The main objective of the project is to control the total number of public officials to ensure more efficient control of staff expenditure in the state budget. This operation should contribute to the respect of the WAEMU convergence criteria by Burkina Faso, notably the criteria aimed at devoting a maximum of 35% of tax revenues to salaries. The provisional results of this operation were presented to the Council of Ministers on 24 October 2012. The latter approved the pursuit of the operation and gave instructions for its perpetuation. Also, to facilitate access to public services, the MFPTSS published a directory and address management of public structures. The directory helps to bring the administration closer to the citizens, as well as facilitating access of users to public structures. It is also presented in the form of a telephone directory of state administrative structures. In the area improvement of of promotion the public of electronic service, the administration objective is to and enhance transparency and improve the quality of public service, using ICTs to improve accessibility and quality of public services. It was with this in mind that the On-line Access to Administrative and Salary Information System (ALIAS) and the Online Access to Digital Archive Personal Files (DIAN) of public officials were launched.

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