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Dr Abdoul Wahab Cissé
Regional Coordinator

Dr Cissé holds degrees in sociology and political science. He was associate professor of political science at UCAO-IMES in Dakar, Senegal for 13 years while working as an expert for the think tank Alliance pour Refonder la Gouvernance en Afrique (ARGA). For several years, he has been a member of research consortia awarded grants under the EU's Horizon 2020 initiative, within which he participated in project drafting and supervised local research (Mali, Niger) as part of two EU-funded projects, namely EUNPACK (EUNPACK Final Conference: synthesising three years of research on the EU’s crisis response | NUPI) and PREVEX under the scientific coordination of the NUPI (Norvegian Institute of International Affairs
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International Research Achievements

Dr Cissé has also been involved in applied research, participating in other research projects which have all resulted in publications. These other research projects include one on taxation in so-called fragile states, on jihadist governance in the Sahel, on the violent entrepreneurs in the Sahel, on the dynamics of resistance in the Islamic world. Another example is the research project on sharing experiences in improving resource mobilization (revenue, taxation, etc.) in different countries.
Within the framework of other partnerships, Dr. Cissé participated in the design and execution of a research project on EU migration policy in the Sahel through the prism of the anti-migrant law passed in Niger, financed by the FaFo foundation. An analysis of the consequences of the law's vote on the local economy of the city of Agadez was carried out using field interviews by Dr. Cissé and his team of local investigators.

Research activities in Senegal

In Senegal, one of Dr. Cissé’s most recent research activities was the NDI(National Democratic Institute)-funded study of citizen movements in Senegal in the context of term limits. Previously, in collaboration with Pr Babacar Gueye’s CERAG (Centre d’Etude et de Recherche sur la Gouvernance),

Dr Abdoul Wahab Cissé took part in the following studies:

  • the cost of politics, in partnership with Westminister Foundation for Democracy (WFD);
  • the contribution of local authorities to peace and security in West Africa, in partnership with UNOWAS-CERAG;
  • governance of agricultural inputs, OSIWA-CERAG.
Finally, Dr Cissé has conducted various project evaluations in both Senegal and Burkina Faso. He was also grants manager in the Evaluation and Quality Assurance department of the American NGO Colorado Coalition for the Homeless in Denver, Colorado.

Board members

  • Dr Mar Fall, Sociologist, Writer, Bordeaux, France, President,
  • Dr Fatou Maria Dramé, Université Gaston Berger(UGB), Research Director ENDA-Santé, Senegal,
  • Pr Morten Boas, Adjunct Faculty, Norwegian Institute of International Relations(NUPI), Oslo, Norway
  • Pr Babacar Guèye, Professor Emeritus, Director, Institut Supérieur de Dakar, Senegal
  • Dr Herman Yacouba, Nacambo, Director of the Caisse Nationale de Sécurité Sociale, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
  • Germaine Ndour, Program and Award Advisor, International Rescue Comittee, Dakar, Senegal
  • Thierno Seydou Diop, Lobbyist, EU-Africa public affairs, Brussels, Senior Advisor at Africa Ventures Advisors(AVA) Geneva,
  • Pape Tahirou Kanoute, Director of ETDS, Ziguinchor, Senegal
  • Dr Ivan Crouzel, International Consultant, Seoul, South Korea

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  • Senegal : - Augustin Faye (Sociologist-statistician), Khadidiatou Diakhaté (Political science graduate, freelance writer)
  • Mali : Yehya Maiga (Jurist, research assistant at ARGA Mali), Modibo Sawadogo (Socio-anthropologist)
  • Burkina Faso : Salif Ouédraogo (Journalist), Souleymane Zorome (Sociologist)
  • Niger : Laouali Mahamane (Geographer, Directeur of Cabinet Beta Consult), Nouridine Rabiou (Sociologist)
  • Côte d’Ivoire : Dr Mafou Kouassi Kombo (Senior Lecturer, University of Daloa), Dr Abel Adjet (Socio-anthropologist, University of Daloa), Adamadjan Keita (Socio-anthropologist)
  • Guinea : Bineta Diallo (Journalist)
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