Measuring the right to education in Burkina Faso

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