CPRC Partners

CPRC’s partners in West Africa are in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger and Senegal. The regional network is coordinated by Bara Gueye of IED Afrique in Senegal, and includes:

• CEDRES, University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
• Department of Economics, University of Ghana
• l’Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire, Unversité Cheik Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal
• National Institute of the Statistics, Institute of Research in Social Sciences, University Abdou Moumouni, Niamey, Niger.

Research

CPRC in West Africa addresses the lack of attention to poverty dynamics in statistics and policy to date. Partners have undertaken research on the extent, characteristics and causes of chronic poverty in the region with the aim of building up a detailed and disaggregated picture of ‘the poor.’

Policy analysis and reasearch have focused on the impact of poverty reduction strategy papers (PRSP) on the chronically poor, the impact of global economic processes on poor farmers, governance, and economic growth. Social protection, agricultural growth and migration have been a priority in all countries. 

Research outputs have fed into poverty reduction strategy (PRS) reviews (2008-11), PRS monitoring and evaluation and the launching of regional economic agreements and policies, including the West Africa PRS.

Each of the four countries have undertaken a Q² project to investigate key topics for their country. Recent reports have also been produced by each country.  

Key resources

Chronic poverty in West Africa overview

• Investigating Chronic Poverty in West Africa
  ^{CPRC Working paper 28}
• Regional perspectives on the experience of chronic poverty
  ^{Chronic poverty report}
• Comprendre et explique la pauvrete chronique: un cadre evolutif pour la phase III de la recherche du CPRC (Understanding and explaining chronic poverty: an evolving framework for Phase III of CPRC's research)
  ^{CPRC West Africa Working Paper 4}
• La transmission intergenerationnelle de la pauvrete: une vue d'ensemble (Intergenerational transmisison of poverty: an overview)
  ^{CPRC West Africa Working Paper 6}
• Migrations internationales et pauvrete en Afrique de l'Ouest (International migration and poverty in West Africa)
  ^{CPRC West Africa Working Paper 5}

Country specific

• Pauvrete chronique au Burkina Faso (Chronic poverty in  Burkina Faso)
  ^{CPRC West Africa Working paper 1}
• Pauvrete chronique au Niger (Chronic poverty in Niger)
  ^{CPRC West Africa Working Paper 2}
• Profils de pauvrete a Senegal (Profiles of poverty in Senegal)
  ^{CPRC West Africa Working Paper 3}

View more CPRC West Africa Working papers