E/CN.4/2006/73/Add.2 page 20 (b) Facilitating the adoption, implementation and monitoring of a national migration policy. Supporting the MIDA programme would be an excellent step in the right direction; (c) Ensuring that international community aid is distributed transparently; (d) Monitoring the situation in Côte d’Ivoire in order to take all possible steps to ensure that Burkina Faso nationals are not exposed to further large-scale human rights violations. Notes 1 Estimates supplied by the Permanent Secretariat of Burkina Faso Nationals Abroad. Pacere, T.F. (dir. publ.), Burkina Faso: migration et droits des travailleurs (1897-2003), UNESCO, Paris, 2004, pp. 54 and 55. 2 Ammassari S., Gestion des migrations et politiques de développement: optimiser les Bénéfices de la migration internationale en Afrique de l’Ouest, International Labour Office, Geneva, 2004, pp. 15 and 16. 3 Ministry for Social Action and National Solidarity, Document de projet d’appui à la réinsertion socioéconomique des migrants burkinabè rapatriés de Libye, January 2005, p. 3. 4 Pacere, op. cit. (see above note 1), pp. 73 and 74. 5 Ammassari, op. cit. (see above note 2), pp. 36 and 37. 6 Signed by all ECOWAS countries except Nigeria. 7 Ammassari, op. cit. (see above note 2), pp. 56 and 57. 8 Apart from the loss of belongings for 49 per cent of returnees, there was also widespread loss of plots of land and plantations (26 per cent) and loss of production (coffee, cocoa and rice) (8 per cent) as well as cash losses (7 per cent). Five per cent of returnees said they had lost at least one relative in the Ivorian crisis (either killed or disappeared). Four per cent said their house had been burnt or destroyed (SP/CONASUR, UNICEF, WFP, Analyse des données sur les rapatriés de Côte d’Ivoire, September 2004, p. 22). 9 Of all the people fleeing the combat zones and seeking shelter in Burkina Faso, 91.4 per cent are Burkina Faso nationals. The presence of other nationalities is due mostly to transit. They include nationals from Niger (2.3 per cent), Benin (0.5 per cent) and Mali (0.4 per cent) [SP/CONASUR, UNICEF, WFP, op. cit. (see above note 8)], p. 17. 10 Twenty-nine thousand and sixty-four returnees are living in the region of Gaoua, according to figures supplied to the Special Rapporteur by local authorities. 11 Ammassari, op. cit., p. 23-25.