Tackling rural poverty, together

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A briefing on the region and the organisation and activities of the Sahel and Africa Club.

The Club is an informal structure promoting reflections without borders and alerting the international community on the region’s challenges and potentialities. It is aimed at facilitating informed debates to support decisions and actions – both within and outside of the region – for a better future for West Africa.
The Club aims to favour open and direct exchanges – South-South and North-South – concerning issues as crucial as the reading of past and future determinants of the region anchored in an in-depth knowledge of the realities on the ground; modes of governance; conflict dynamics; transformation of the rural environment; local development and the regional integration process; improvement of competitiveness and mobilisation of required public and private resources both within and outside the region; and the possible futures for West Africa within the framework of new partnerships.