Good Governance Programme News and events
Recordkeeping for Good Governance in Burkina Faso
Date Added:5 January 2011
From 14 to 20 December 2011, partners and members of the project team "Good Recordkeeping for Good Governance in Burkina Faso" met in Ouagadougou. Several workshops and meetings were held and the conclusions of the working week were delivered by Soungalo Ouattara, Minister of the Public Service.
Archives nationales du Burkina
This project supported by PCOM brings together several partners in France and in Burkina Faso, including the Association of French Archivsts, Archivists without Borders-France, and the Archives départementales de l'Aude (local archives in France). From Burkina Faso, the National Archives and the steering group composed by representatives from various public agencies and from the National Assembly attended the wokshops delivered by colleagues from the Association des Archvistes français on the basis of the Recordkeeping for Good Governance Toolkit. In particular, a draft recordkeping policy for Burkina Faso was developed to be presented to Soungalo Ouattara for adoption by the government as a whole.
The week in Ouagadougou was completed by a visit to the National School of Administration and Magistracy, which recently launched in the framework of the same programme a curriculum on records and archives management.