Catherine Ouedraogo

Ouedraogo's work ranges from human rights to environmental protection and employment training.^[3] She and the shelter she runs have campaigned alongside Amnesty International for the rights of girls in Burkina Faso, as part of the campaign called "My Body, My Rights", which focused on forced and early marriage and inadequate access to contraception.^[4][5]

She has led communities in the pedagogical training methods for local soap production, which was sold locally, as well as the production of liquid soap. She is also responsible for the school registration of a large number of girls in a country where, according to the Women's World Summit Foundation, "schooling is free but not compulsory, and only about 29 percent of Burkina's primary school-age children receive a basic education."^[3]

As an environmentalist, she took action to protect community land by building anti-erosive sites, composting organic waste and safeguarding clearings.^[3]

In 2009, she received a Laureates award for her creative innovations in rural life by the Women's World Summit Foundation. The prize honors her work in mobilizing rural populations throughout the entire East-Center Quada region of Burkina Faso.^[3]