01From territorial diagnosis to a fundable roadmap
Local planning, resource mobilisation and management tools designed with municipal stakeholders.
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Research and advisory institute · Bamako
We help institutions understand realities, design sound responses and learn from action — as close as possible to the territories.
Local planning · Ongoing mission
12°38’N, 8°00’W — Bamako, Mali
Research finds its full meaning when it informs a decision, strengthens a capability and changes a trajectory in concrete ways.
The Sankore method
A rigorous approach designed to connect listening, decision-making and learning in one continuous cycle.
Observe. Listen to territories before proposing a response.
Listen to territories before proposing a response.
Interviews, participatory workshops, observation and digital collection reveal the realities behind the indicators.Connect data, narratives and systems.
Our qualitative and quantitative analyses turn scattered information into a shared reading of the issues.Co-design a feasible response people can own.
Plans, programmes and tools are built with the people who will carry, fund and sustain them.Learn from action and make progress visible.
Monitoring, evaluation and learning produce better decisions — and skills that remain after the mission.01Local planning, resource mobilisation and management tools designed with municipal stakeholders.
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Ongoing mission · Central African Republic · Jul.–Nov. 2026
In Bossangoa, Sankore Institute supports the municipality in preparing its local development plan, mobilising resources and setting up financial-management tools. A process led with the people who will sustain the plan.
Explore the mission dossierWhere we work
From Bamako, our teams deploy tailored approaches across West and Central Africa. We do not impose a model: we read the actors, institutions and dynamics specific to each territory.
Six fields of expertise
Sound diagnostics for confident decisions.
Knowledge that moves action forward.
From intention to measurable results.
Solutions grounded in local realities.
Methods that remain after the mission.
Make ideas legible, shareable and useful.
What guides us
Explicit methods, triangulated data and traceable conclusions.
People concerned help read the problem and shape the response.
Every mission leaves tools, habits and stronger autonomy behind.
We connect recommendations to decisions, owners and follow-up.
Knowledge in motionPublications & perspectives
Our editorial library is in preparation. It will progressively bring together research notes, methodological tools and documented lessons — using validated content only.
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A project to clarify?
Tell us about your context. We will respond with a first reading of the issues and the right way forward.