AES: Senior officials review several draft social texts
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AES: Senior officials review several draft social texts (opens at the publisher, in a new window)
Senior officials from the AES ministries of civil service, labour and social protection are meeting in Ouagadougou to review draft guides and a convention on the portability of social benefits. Their work prepares a ministerial meeting scheduled for 13 November.
AES Confederation: Towards Harmonised Practices in Administrative and Social Sectors (opens at the publisher, in a new window)
Experts from the AES Confederation are meeting in Ouagadougou to review guides and a convention on civil service, migrant work and portability of social benefits. The documents will go to ministers on 13 November 2026, then to the heads of state.
AES / Social Protection: Toward Common Mechanisms for Better Protection of Workers in the Confederation of Sahel States (opens at the publisher, in a new window)
Senior officials from the civil service, labour and social protection ministries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are meeting in Ouagadougou from 10 to 12 November 2026 to review four draft common texts on civil service, migrant workers and portability of social benefits.
Burkina Faso/ AES / Workers' rights: senior civil servants mobilised for better social protection across the confederal space (opens at the publisher, in a new window)
Senior officials from the civil service, labour and social protection ministries of the AES states are meeting in Ouagadougou to finalise four documents on protecting migrant workers and portability of social benefits. Their work precedes a ministerial meeting scheduled for 13 November 2026.
AES: towards common rules for workers in the three countries (opens at the publisher, in a new window)
Senior officials from Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are meeting in Ouagadougou to prepare common frameworks on civil service, recruitment of migrant workers and portability of social benefits. A ministerial meeting is scheduled for 13 November.
Alliance of Sahel States (AES): Senior civil servants meet in Ouagadougou to strengthen integration (opens at the publisher, in a new window)
Senior officials from AES member states are meeting in Ouagadougou from 10 November 2026 to finalise documents on the civil service, migrant workers and portability of social benefits, before ministers review them on 13 November.
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