• “I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”

    -Baruch Spinoza

    Bouton

  • "Nothing is self-evident. Nothing is given. Everything is built."

    -Gaston Bachelard

    Bouton

  • "If you think like me, you are my brother. If you don't think like me, you are my brother twice over because you open me up to a new world."

    -Amadou Hampâté Bâ

    Bouton

  • "The essential is always threatened by the insignificant."

    -René Char

    Bouton

  • "We must always try to understand our fellow man. If we exist, we must admit that he too, exists."

    -Amadou Hampâté Bâ

    Bouton

  • "The real sometimes quenches hope’s thirst. That is why, against all odds, hope survives."

    -René Char

    Bouton

  • "The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know."

    -Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    Bouton

  • "Listen carefully, we used to say in old Africa, everything speaks, everything is word, everything tries to communicate knowledge to us."

    -Amadou Hampâté Bâ

    Bouton

  • "The simplifying modes of knowledge mutilate more than they express the realities or the phenomena they give an account of."

    -Edgar Morin

    Bouton

  • "Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."

    -Charles Mingus

    Bouton

  • "When you do something, know that you will have against you those who would like to do the same thing, those who would like to do the opposite, and the vast majority of those who would not do anything."

    -Confucius

    Bouton

  • "There is no simple, there is simplification. The simple is always simplified."

    -Gaston Bachelard

    Bouton

  • "The disease is not cured by saying the name of the medicine, but by taking the medicine."

    -Thomas Sankara

    Bouton

  • "Be ever vigilant, hold government accountable, struggle for peace and justice."

    -Nelson Mandela

    Bouton
SAHEL/SAHARA_Support for the development of endogenous capacities for conflict prevention, crisis management and policies in the Sahel-Saharan zone

External final evaluation of the project : “Support for the development of endogenous capacities for conflict prevention, crisis management and policies in the Sahel-Saharan zone” in Niger 

Evaluation Report
Julien Moriceau
Completed for the Académie de recherche et d'enseignement supérieur (ARES)

This evaluation focuses on an academic cooperation project between the Université Catholique de Louvain and Universté Abdou-Moumouni. This project aimed at supporting the development of endogenous capacities for conflict prevention, crisis management and peace policies in the Saharo-Sahelian zone, between 2015 and 2019. The purpose of the evaluation was to keep stakeholders and ARES informed of the project's achievements, offer an analysis based on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development-Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC) evaluation criteria, and inform the linked project application process. According to the evaluation, the project is an undeniable success. 

The thematic of the project presents a direct and strong link with the political, social and academic priorities of the country of implementation, which is rare for an academic cooperation project. In its conception, it presents modalities of collaboration with political (CNESS) and academic (Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherche sur les Dynamiques Sociales et le Développement Local(LASDEL)) partners that are completely original and relevant. After a somewhat slow start, the project has seen the implementation of the vast majority of the planned activities and the achievement of the main results.  

 However, the project's achievements are fragile and need to be supported and consolidated in order to promote a positive long-term impact on the quality of teaching and research. 

To read the full report, you may access it here.
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