Project profile — Supporting the right to identity

• Burkina Faso (100.00%)

• Basic Education: Primary education (11220) (10.00%)
• Health, General: Medical services (12191) (10.00%)
• Elections:
Elections (15151) (20.00%)
Human rights (15160) (60.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Participatory development and good governance (principal objective)
• Children's issues (significant objective)
• Youth Issues (significant objective)

This project aims to improve the protection environment of host populations in Burkina Faso’s Centre-Nord, Nord and Boucle du Mouhoun regions. It aims to provide the most vulnerable groups, including internally displaced persons at risk of statelessness, with access to identity documents (birth certificates and national identity cards). These documents facilitate their freedom of movement without risk of arrest and detention. It also allows them to access basic social services (education, health and the right to entrepreneurship) and to fully enjoy their citizenship. This project aims to provide 50,000 identity documents to children, women and men who are affected by the crisis in Burkina Faso, particularly internally displaced persons and the communities that welcome them.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) promoting the exercise of civil and political rights, particularly the right to vote; and (2) facilitating the free movement of internally displaced persons.

Results achieved as of the end of the project (March 2021) include: (1) issued 10,000 birth certificates to internally displaced persons, including 5,183 women and 4,817 men; (2) issued 20,000 birth certificates to 10,366 women and 9,634 men from the host community; (3) issued 8,000 Burkina Faso national identity cards to 4,000 women and 4,000 men from the host community; and (4) issued 12,000 Burkina Faso national identity cards to internally displaced persons, including 6,220 women and 5,780 men.

• Proactive disclosure