Since its founding in 2004, IERPE has carried out dozens of cutting-edge research projects throughout West Africa in collaboration with numerous partners and sponsors. Select projects are featured below. For more details on any given contract, please write to iheffernan[at]africanschoolofeconomics.com.
Additional projects include:
- Bed Net Usage in Benin, carried out in the town of Ouèdo, Benin, by IERPE
- Improving Emergency Healthcare in Benin, carried out in Benin with support from Princeton University and the Center for Health and Wellbeing (Princeton University)
- Impact Evaluation of the “Entreprenant” Status, carried out in Benin (2015-2016) for the World Bank and IFC
- Program to Support the Education and Upbringing of Children Excluded from the Educational System (PAEFE), carried out in Benin (2016-2019) in partnership with the Center for Evaluation and Development (C4ED) and financed by the DDC Swiss Corporation and PADER – Related article
- PASTR-II Evaluation of the “Programme d’Appui au Sous-Secteur de Transport Rural” (Rural Transport Sub-Sector Support Program) in Benin (2012-2013 and 2014-2017), carried out on behalf of the Dutch Embassy and in partnership with the Center 4 Evaluation and Development at the University of Mannheim and PARTICIP.
- Introducing Risk Management Tools to a Large-scale Agricultural Development Program in Senegal: A Process Evaluation, carried out in Senegal in partnership with PADAER
- Youth Employment Project (French: PEJ), carried out as part of the strategy of the Beninese government to fight poverty (2017), and financed by the World Bank
- Social Impact of SOS Children Villages, carried out in Abomey-Calavi, Benin and financed by SOS Children Villages.
- USAID National Investigation on Health Performance Indicators in Benin
- Cost of Politics, carried out in Benin and financed by the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy.
- Impact Evaluation of Rural Land Plans, carried out in Benin (2010-2011 and 2015) for the World Bank
- Enhancing Transparency in African Parliaments: The African Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations (PMOs), carried out in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Chad and Togo (2013) for the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana)
- Research project on the Perceptions, Attitudes on Citizenship among Youth vis-à-vis Public Action in Benin (2012-2013), with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
- Impact evaluation of PNDCC, carried out nationwide in Benin (2013) for the Executive Secretariat of the “Projet National d’appui au Développement Conduit par les Communautés” (PNDCC)
- Evaluation of the Pilot Phase of the Solar Electrification Project in Kalalé, carried out in Benin (2011) for Stanford University
- Baseline study on Results Based Financing (RBF) in the Health System in Benin, carried out nationwide in Benin (2010) for the World Bank
- Evaluation of the Long-Term Effects of the Home Operations Council: The case of former adherents of the PADSE in Benin, carried out in Benin (2010-2011) for the French Development Agency (AFD)
- Study on Public Opinion on the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices in the Democratic Republic of Congo, carried out in Matadi, Kananga and Buvaku in the DRC (2010), for Effective Development Group
- Study of the Quality of Democracy and Good Governance in Côte d’Ivoire, carried out nationwide in Côte d’Ivoire (2009-2010), for the Government of Côte d’Ivoire
- Evaluation of Health Education and/or Microfinance Credit Associations of PADME, carried out in the Plateau Department of Benin (2009-2010) for Freedom from Hunger
- Impact of the Media on Benin’s Social and Economic Development (2007-2008), carried out for DANIDA, the World Bank and the Ministry of Maternal and Primary Education
- Criminality in Benin, carried out nationwide (2007) for the Africa Human Services Initiative Institute for Security Studies
- Classroom Dynamics, carried out in Benin (2007) for the World Bank
- Collecting data in three different health topics: Malaria, HIV/AIDS and Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses, carried out in Ouémé, Benin (2007) for Freedom from Hunger
- Study on the Decision Making Process in Households in Benin, carried out in the Plateau Department of Benin (2007)
- Community Management and Decentralization of Primary Education, carried out nationwide in Benin (2006-2010) for the World Bank, DNIDA, and the Ministry of Maternal and Primary Education
- Inquiry into Political Parties and Systems of Parties in French-speaking Africa, carried out in Benin (2006) for the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
- Transparency in governance in the health sector in Benin, carried out in Cotonou and Parakou, Benin (2006) for Management Systems International (MSI)