2015

The National Strategy for the Prevention and Elimination of Child Marriage (SNPEME) was adopted on 17 November 2015, with the overall objective of accelerating the elimination of child marriage in all its forms in Burkina Faso by 2025. The development of the SNPEME also took place in a context marked by the African Union Commission's call to end child marriage in Africa and the lack of coordination in interventions to promote the abandonment of the phenomenon in Burkina Faso. The national strategy is accompanied by an operational action plan for 2016-2018, the implementation of which is monitored by a multisectoral platform established by Decree No. 2015- 1587/PRESTRANS/PM/MASSN/MPFG/MJDHPC/MENA of 28/12/2015 on the creation, attributions, composition and functioning of the multifunctional platform for the prevention and elimination of child marriage in Burkina Faso. This action plan was evaluated at six billion three hundred and thirty-eight million one hundred and fifty-six thousand (6,338,156,000) CFA francs.
The operationalisation of the strategy has resulted in, among other things
- the sensitisation of 324,759 people on the issue of child marriage
- the setting up of more than 700 monitoring cells in more than 700 villages that have declared the abandonment of excision and child marriage
- the retention of more than 6,000 girls who are victims or at risk of child marriage in the school system;
- the increasing commitment of religious leaders and political authorities, through measures and policies to control child marriage, ensure girls' access to and retention in school and access to sexual and reproductive health services.