Mission & objectives

Using sophisticated and efficient methodologies and technology, Farafina Institute collects data, conducts research, and implements specific projects that contribute to enhancing people's well-being in Africa. To achieve this goal we hold the conviction that sound and reliable data on African economy, politics and society is indispensable for appropriate decision-making.

By collecting reliable information on people's expectations, opinions, mindsets and feelings through opinion polls and group discussions, Farafina Institute makes available through its databases relevant data to development actors and agencies for evidence-based policy-making and governance.

Conviction

With several years of academic research on Africa, we are convinced that the unavailability of data and information on African realities is at the centre of the ill-advised and failed policies in various sectors of social, economic and human resource development.

Making such qualitative and quantitative data available to actors in these sectors, we believe, will help redirect efforts towards the real issues with the potential of achieving the expected results.

Farafina Institute's role is to create the much-needed bridge between these realities, understandings and conceptualizations of them by the people, and the actors who need authentic data on them for development policies.