Research

The JINOV project enhances the appeal of the farming profession. It promotes information sharing and exchange between young rural people on social networks while facilitating access to training, information and agricultural advice.

The present study is made up of three sections. The first lays out the terms of the debate on the “Sikasso paradox” as a preamble. The second offers a statistical diagnosis of the standards of living of cotton farmers in Mali and Burkina Faso since the mid-1990s based on the above-mentioned...

In the Mopti region in Mali, young people are affected by the deterioration in training and education services. The limited job opportunities reduce prospects for personal advancement. The ACTIF project, which has the Sahel Alliance label, aims to offer young people more opportunities to train,...

This eight-country evaluation seeks to measure how the ELAN Program methods of written language acquisition have an impact, during the first two years of primary school (Grade 1 and Grade 2), on oral and written language performance in African languages (one language per country) and in French. A...

As a priority area for French development policy, the Sahel is faced with a diverse array of security, climate, economic, social and political challenges. The countries in the region (Burkina Faso, Cape Verde,...

It is now a widely recognised fact in the economic literature that the level of per capita income and the degree of sectoral concentration of economic activity evolve together over the long term. The empirical research of Imbs and Wacziarg (2003) has notably shown that production diversification...

On the youngest continent in the world where more than half of the population is under 25, African youth are key players in sectors ranging from sports and creative industries to entrepreneurship and innovation. AFD Group has collected the stories of 16 young entrepreneurs it’s supporting, as...

This paper investigates the impact of regional migration on average wages and wage inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA). We exploit a unique data from a unified labour force household survey which covers natives and migrants in the seven economic capitals of the...

During the past twenty years, participation of the private sector in the field of essential services has been a topic of much discussion, allowing the expression of very different viewpoints and the multiplication of disciplinary approaches around this question. However, little work has been...

The security, humanitarian, and sociopolitical situation in the Sahel has continued to deteriorate since the 2012 crisis in Mali, with a significant increase in conflict hotspots. More than one million people, according to OCHA reports, have been forcibly displaced in the G5 Sahel countries, due...

Fragility and conflict are the main lenses through which Sahelian issues are most often viewed. However, the crystallization of the debate around these issues, real as they are, leads to a narrowing of analyses, whereas the truth is that the region is also seeing positive trends. Even as it...

Over the past decade, the deterioration of the security situation has profoundly destabilized the Central Sahel, with spillover effects throughout the region and even beyond. Weakened social cohesion has led to increasingly violent and uncontrolled conflict. In addition, the political turmoil...

Role models—those individuals who resemble us but have achieved more than us— are thought to impact our aspirations. In this paper, we study the impact of role models on intentions to migrate. Specifically, we implement a randomized controlled trial to show documentaries in rural villages of...

Following on from a first phase, in the context of the Sahel Alliance, the “Facilité Santé Nord Mali 2” project is continuing to upgrade health centers and support the development of the health financing system in the north of the country. The objective: reduce maternal and child mortality,...

Agence Française de Développement and its partner CFI are undertaking an ambitious project to support the media in the Sahel. The objective is to promote the inclusion of youth in public debate in the region’s countries.

"In any city, the price and quality of housing is so influenced by what land is available for housing, under what terms, with what services, and at what cost. This book provides a very rich and detailed understanding of this in and around Bamako. But its detailed and careful analyses of the...

The Sahel – the semi-arid band stretching from Mauritania and Senegal in the west to Eritrea in the east – has an exceptionally young population. This poses major challenges in terms of education, training, health and governance. But as Jean-Marc Pradelle and Lisa Verrière of Agence Française de...