WORKING PAPER: SAHEL SOCIAL COHESION RESEARCH IN BURKINA FASO AND NIGER
By Hippolyt Pul, Ruth Suseela Meinzen-Dick, Bernard B. Konde, Donatus Zogho, Emmanuel V. Kuuchille, Nancy Mccarthy and Wim Marivoet
Purpose and Objectives of Research:
This research was commissioned to “…investigate and identify the exact programming nuances and conditions under which social cohesion within communities is likely to be strengthened while unintended tensions and new sources of conflict can be avoided” (WFP, 2021, ToR, p. 2). Specific lines of inquiry were: How do WFP’s activities.
i)increase the availability of and more equitable access to natural resources across socioeconomic and demographic identity lines;
ii) facilitate intra- and intercommunity dialogues that improve communal management of natural resources;
iii) improve equity in the distribution and use of rehabilitated and created assets; and iv) contribute to the development of good practices that can be replicated in other settings?
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