The intentions of this action-research project and its intervention context led to the development of a system (a) for the production, interpretation, dissemination and implementation of evaluative data (b) of public security action, (c) from civil society (citizens and CSOs) in the three countries of Senegambia (Senegal, Gambia and Guinea-Bissau) and three Sahelian countries (Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso).
In March 2018, the Laboratory for the Analysis of Societies and Powers in Africa/Diasporas (LASPAD) at Gaston Berger University in Saint-Louis, Senegal, was invited by the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding – Senegal (WANEP), in partnership with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Peace and Security Centre of Competence Sub-Saharan Africa (FES-PSCC), to a workshop on a security assessment in Senegambia. In November of the same year, LASPAD organized a workshop on the development of a citizen monitoring program for public security action (CCAPS). This action research project led to the development of a system (a) for the production, interpretation, dissemination and implementation of evaluative data (b) on public security action, (c) from civil society (citizens and CSOs) in three countries of Senegambia (Senegal, Gambia and Guinea-Bissau) and three other Sahelian countries (Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso). The citizen monitoring tool developed in the form of a Citizen Security Barometer was thus born to objectively, measurably and periodically restore the perceptions of civil societies on the quality of the security environment and interventions.
Given that the state-centric security approach alone cannot resolve the vulnerabilities faced by countries and that it is necessary to respond to the real and legitimate demands of citizens, we propose the establishment of a system that sustainably integrates citizens and contributes to institutionalizing this participation in public security action.
A program of LASPAD
