Recruitment in all the activity sectors covered by the social security is reserved for the main
ethnic groups who wield political and economic power. Employment is essentially reserved for
those who are from the same ethnic group like the top management.
To get a job for those from the minority groups who have the requirements we have to lobby,
write officially asking for special measures from some influential officials sympathetic officials to
the cause of minorities. Sometimes it work and we have two or three boys and some girls
recruited in the army or public sector.
As you can see minority groups especially women are absent in the formal jobs sector and can
therefore not be covered by the social security scheme, as their traditional activities are not
considered and very few of them have access to jobs in the sector covered or are under
negotiations.
In the transport sector there will be some Mbororo men who excel in the g sector. These men
may benefit from the negotiations of the transporters sector. Their women may benefit indirectly
through their husbands for maternity services.
The bulk of the women are excluded and that will be for a long time to come from the existing
Social Security schemes despite the dispositions of international and Regional and National laws.
Many pastoralists who have lost their herds have moved to cities, but because they are minorities
and are for the most part illiterates are relegated to mean jobs, small trades, guards to private
persons, and driving. This does not give them access to social security for them and their families.
They live in precarious situations in the cities, but through the actions of the civil society the
women have organized themselves into group in the rural and urban areas to ameliorate their
living condition. They benefit from the support of NGO, projects on community organization and
development.
The women of these groups are the lamp lights and are in the lead in the social movements to
ameliorate their lives and that of their communities, through trainings in socio- professional
knowhow, organizational capacity building, income generating activities and the fight against
climate change through the adaptation of ameliorated cooking clay stoves and the introduction of
solar energy in some communities
. With the modernization of the social security on health coverage through the creation of District
mutual’s, a project that is in discussion, there is a possibility to lobby and do a follow up so that
women from minority ethnic groups can benefit from the scheme especially on primary and
reproductive health care.