Burkina Faso

Directorate-General of Civil Registration Modernization (DGMEC)

Mayors of municipalities

The declaration of birth is the responsibility of the father, mother or one of the parents or other relatives who attended the birth. The birth certificate may be drawn up on the declaration of the persons in charge of the sub-sectors (Code of Persons and the Family, article 107).

Regarding the mother of the child: Date of birth or age, Place of usual residence, Occupation

Regarding the father of the child: Date of birth or age, Place of usual residence, Occupation

All vital events are directly recorded on non-standardized forms, their fill fields are free and they are manually filled in cursive writing, which prohibits their subsequent exploitation by optical character recognition.

Health units in villages and sectors of towns and communes, place of birth (secondary centres)

(Persons and the Family, article 61).

– Preparation of collection sheets;

– Drafting of a manual to serve as a guide and reference for the collection of vital statistics;

– Training for registrars on filling of registers and statistical cards;

– Distribution of the data sheets to the staff of the civil registration centres at the end of the training;

– Starting the collection of vital statistics throughout the country with a catch-up of the events that have taken place since the beginning of the year.

Directorate-General of Civil Registration Modernization (DGMEC)

Mayors of municipalities

Exemptions: Marriage may be contracted only between a male over 20 years of age and a female over 17 years of age, unless granted by the civil court. This exemption of age cannot be granted under any circumstances for a male under the age of 18 and a female under the age of 15 (Code of Persons and the Family, article 238).

The marriage shall be celebrated before the civil registrar of the place where the marriage record was constituted. However, the civil court of that place may, at the request of the prospective spouses, if there are just reasons, authorize the celebration of the marriage by another civil registrar. In this case, the marriage file shall be forwarded to the civil registrar designated for that purpose by the diligence of the future spouses (Code of Persons and the Family, article 273).

The marriage record shall include the following:

– An extract of the birth certificate of each of the future spouses or a substitute judgment in lieu thereof;

– A certificate of residence for each of the future spouses;

– Certificate of premarital visit issued by a physician.

However, in localities where there is no doctor, this medical certificate can be issued by a health worker, and requires, where applicable, a certificate of non-pregnancy; an administrative authorization from superiors; the consent of the father and mother or of one of the persons referred to in sections 241 and 243; choice of the matrimonial regime adopted by the future spouses and a copy of the marriage contract; the declaration of option of polygamy ascertained in the form provided for in article 258

(Code of Persons and the Family, article 253).

– Surname, forename, occupation, age, date and place of birth, homes and residence of the husband;
– Surname, first name, profession and domiciles of the father and mother;
– Consent of the person exercising parental authority or of the guardian, if required;
– Declaration by the contracting parties that they are to be regarded as spouses, and the civil registration officer;
– Surname, first name, profession and domicile of the witnesses and their status as adults;
– Choice of the matrimonial regime adopted or governing the spouses as of right;
– A statement that a marriage contract has been or has not been made and, if so, the name and domicile of the clerk-notary who received it;
– Declaration of option of polygamy, where applicable

(Code of Persons and the Family, article 112).

All vital events are directly recorded on non-standardized forms, their fill fields are free and they are manually filled in cursive writing, which prohibits their subsequent exploitation by optical character recognition.

– Preparation of collection sheets;

– Drafting of a manual to serve as a guide and reference for the collection of vital statistics;

– Training for registrars on filling of registers and statistical cards;

– Distribution of the data sheets to the staff of the civil registration centres at the end of the training;

– Starting the collection of vital statistics throughout the country with a catch-up of the events that have taken place since the beginning of the year.

Directorate-General of Civil Registration Modernization (DGMEC)

Mayors of municipalities

(Code of Persons and the Family, article 117).

Regarding the death: Date of death, Date of registration, Place of occurrence, Place of registration

In the closing month, the secondary centres centralize the collection sheets (births and deaths) at the main centre, which are then forwarded to the High Commission (provincial capital). At the level of the High Commission, the forms of the different main centres are centralized and sent to the governorate (chief-region). The governorate centralizes the collection sheets from the various civil registries in the provinces and transmits them to the central level (DGMEC/MATDS) for processing.

Health units in villages and sectors of towns and communes, place of birth (secondary centers)

(Code of Persons and the Family, article 61).

– Preparation of collection sheets;

– Drafting of a manual to serve as a guide and reference for the collection of vital statistics;

– Training for registrars on filling of registers and statistical cards;

– Distribution of the data sheets to the staff of the civil registration centres at the end of the training;

– Starting the collection of vital statistics throughout the country with a catch-up of the events that have taken place since the beginning of the year.