On 29 December 2022, the first session of the Partnership Framework of Civil State Actors (CAPEC) was held in Ouagadougou under the chairmanship of the Minister for Territorial Administration. CAPEC is an appropriate framework for dialogue that brings together all partners involved or wishing to be involved in the field of civil status. It is the main forum for consultation and coordination between the government, technical and financial partners and the umbrella bodies of local authorities. This framework was set up following the adoption of the National Civil Status Strategy (SNEC) to monitor and evaluate the implementation of its action plan.
Action Education (Aide et Action) seized the opportunity provided by this CAPEC session, the ideal framework for bringing together the various players in the civil registry, to disseminate the results of the project. the diagnostic study on the effects of the organisation and operation of the civil registry on children and parents in boroughs 08 and 10 of the Ouagadougou municipality. This study, commissioned by Action Education as part of the successful implementation of the activities of the Action for Citizenship by and for All Children through Education (ACTE Afrique) was carried out by the firm Ingénierie Internationale en Décentralisation et Développement local (2ID).
The representative of Action Education in Burkina Faso gave a brief presentation of the association before introducing the representative of 2ID to present the results of the study to the plenary session of the audience, which included executives from the public and decentralised administrations and partners working in the field of civil status. From the audience's reactions during the presentation of the results, it emerged that the study had focused on the difficulties associated with civil status, especially the issue of birth certificates:
- Perception of the importance of the birth certificate
- The content of public awareness campaigns
- The skills and status of dedicated staff
- The actual costs and incidental costs of drawing up birth certificates,
- Availability and continuity of the civil status service
- The working environment and equipment of civil registry departments
- The geographical and financial accessibility of civil status services.
At the end of the presentation, the Director General of the Directorate General for the Modernisation of the Civil State (DGMEC) informed participants of the involvement of his departments in validating the results of the study. Better still, he reassured them that the results would be taken into account by the DGMEC.
