Sahel by 2030 

The Prospective Study on Sahelian Realities 2030 (PRS 2030), carried out between 2016 and 2017, aims to:

1)  Assess, by 2030, the potential for economic integration and development in eight countries: Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and Chad. These eight countries form a group called Sahelo-Saharan: five are directly Sahelian; the other three are, for goods in particular, gateways to the Sahel.

2)  Identify the brakes and levers for this integration of the Sahelo-Sahelian space.

The study is multidisciplinary, systemic and prospective. It has benefited from the analyses of anticipatory work, former and on-going projects and sector studies. It also relied on a collection of original field data. Finally, PRS 2030 has mobilized a network of experts and an experienced project team bringing together analysts and development practitioners. 

The project resulted in the production of four contrasting scenarios.

Full report

The full report, written in french includes an English executive summary and a full bibliography. 

english exec summary

Read our English executive summary which includes the aims of the project, the ten variables and four scenarios. 

french exec summary

Read our French executive summary which includes the aims of the project, the ten variables and four scenarios.