UN Compilation >> Burundi, Review Documentation, 43rd Session, May 2023

Welcoming the measure to apply a quota under which women must account for at least 30 per cent of the members of Burundian political institutions in order to guarantee their participation in political life, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Burundi highlighted the need to better equip them in order to ensure their effective participation in public administration. In the joint submission by UN-Women, it was recommended that Burundi should ensure parity at the colline (a subdivision of rural communes) level, both in colline councils and in unelected political positions, which were currently not regulated by law, and continue to implement policies to promote the full and equal participation of women in decision-making at the national and local levels. It was also recommended that specific measures should be taken to remove structural and legal barriers to women’s participation in politics and decision-making processes, and that funding should be increased for grassroots organizations that built women’s capacity to participate, both individually and collectively, in social, economic, political and public life. [Para 33]