Born in the wake of the Progressive People’s Revolution, the rebuilding of Burkina Faso’s public administration now stands as a central project of state action. This is not a simple bureaucratic clean-up, but an deliberate political project: to turn the administrative apparatus into a genuine instrument of sovereignty and transformation, capable of producing tangible results and accounting, with full transparency, for the use of public funds.
This dynamic was illustrated once again on 14 September in Ouagadougou, when Prime Minister Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouédraogo chaired the ordinary session of the National Council for the Modernization of the Administration and Good Governance.
Before the nation’s senior officials, the Head of Government recalled that the modernization of the public administration is a matter of sovereignty, dignity and the effectiveness of public action, stressing that it cannot be reduced to mere technical reforms or the digitization of procedures. “Our ambition must be clear: to make the public administration a genuine instrument of sovereignty and transformation for Burkina Faso,” he insisted.
Three days later, the Council of Ministers turned this intention into action by adopting a decree establishing and organizing the General Inspectorate of Human Resources of the Public Administration a oversight tool intended to sustainably clean up the management of state personnel.
These institutional advances are based on already tangible results. The performance rate of the public administration, estimated at 68.96% in 2023, a rise of 2.91 points compared with 2022, illustrates the resilience of public structures in carrying out their missions.
At the Ministry of Servants of the People, the 2025 objectives contract shows an overall execution rate of 91.5%, up from 2024, driven in particular by 174 professional competitive examinations organized and 256 direct competitive examinations announced.
On the ground, this demand for accountability translates concretely into the daily lives of Burkinabè, through a public service that is more responsive and more focused on users.
In short, under the leadership of Captain Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso is not content merely to reform its administration: it is making it the foundation of a refounded, sovereign state, resolutely turned toward its people.
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