Realisations and current research

Studies and researches:

“Anthropological study on financial aid devices. The case of Niger and Cameroon”

on behalf of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the research agreement RCH N*309-2013
research director Dr Giorgio Blundo (EHESS), Dr Oumar El Hamani (LASDEL Université de Niamey research fellow), Dr Thomas Cantens, World Customs Organization, Dr Fadimatou Mounsade Kpoundia (Université Catholique d’Afrique Centrale, Yaoundé).

« Support for the definition of a common measurement and tracking methodology of effects and impacts of Entreprises de Services et Organisations de Producteurs (ESOP) on producers (Western Africa) » :

on behalf of the Centre International de Développement et de Recherche (CIDR) and the Fonds pour la promotion des Etudes préalables, des Etudes transversales et des Évaluations (F3E), funded by the AFD-UE,
coordinator Alain Leplaideur, senior researcher (ex CIRAD, ex IRD), in partnership with the Universités de Bamako, Ouagadougou/ Bobo Dioulasso and Lomé.

« Organisational challenges associated with the humanitarian action: actor networks, strategic dynamics and standard-settings, the case of Senegal »:

on behalf of the Fonds de la Croix Rouge Française (FCRF)

research director, Dr José carlos Suarez Herrera (Kedge Business School, Université de Montréal), Comité de Recherche sur l’Action Humanitaire (CRAH), in consortium with the Kedge Business School (Marseille-Bordeaux).

Cycle of meetings between universities and development professionals on knowledge transfer in a new frame of North-South relations (IRD, EHESS, AMU, MuCEM):

Two workshop-debates

took place respectively in the IRD in May 2013 and in the EHESS in October 2013 and allowed to define the basis of a new workshop-debate cycle. (lien vers synthèse des Actes)

5 meetings

in Marseille and 1 meeting in Rio de Janeiro in 2014.