Measuring the right to education in Burkina Faso
Submitted on Sunday, 19 January 2014Last updated on Sunday, 11 June 2017
In Burkina Faso, the creation of the Ministry for Basic Education and Mass Literacy in 1988 reflected the concern of the country's political leaders for fighting illiteracy both upstream, via efforts to achieve universal school enrollment (development of primary education), and downstream, via massive literacy campaigns (the """"commando"""" and """"bantaare"""" campaigns) aimed at an adult population that at the time was more than 85