As a pioneer and leading pan-African social research institution and in trying to fulfil its research mission, CODESRIA, is from time to time, called upon by various agencies and organisations within the United Nations system and by other partner institutions within and outside Africa as well as with individual African universities, university faculties or departments to collaborate on specific research projects aimed at studying issues and trends tied to their activities and relevant to CODESRIA’s mission. Activities of this nature are categorized under collaborative research projects.

The Council’s participation in such collaborative endeavours offers one more avenue for ensuring that the African research community is present and represented in the major debates which take place about Africa and the wider international system. Several such activities are usually going on at any one time in the Secretariat and for varying lengths of time.

The following projects are underway:

• African Research on Ageing and Intergenerational Relationships

• Child Research in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Civil Society and Governance in West Africa

• Consortium for Development Partnership

• Comparing Poverties

• Democratic Decentralization of Forest Resource Management in Senegal

• Afro-Asian Dialogue

• Excellence in Globalisation Studies

• Global Civil Society Movements; Dynamics in International Campaigns and National Implementation

• Institutions and Pro-Poor Growth (IPPG)

• Marginalisation, Youth and Conflict Trade in Central and West Africa

• Network of Research Centres and Think Tanks in West Africa

• Social Sciences and HIV/AIDS in Africa

• South-South Exchange Programme on History of Development SEPHIS

• Sustainable Agriculture Initiative

  • Group Leader Applications Guidelines

  • Group Member Applications Guidelines

• Trade Unions and Social Economic Policies in Africa

• Trajectories of African Societies: the Evolution of Political, Social, Economic and City Life in Africa