Extensive fieldwork is a core component of our research in the Sahel and in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our researchers combine qualitative and quantitative methods to produce high-quality research of direct policy relevance to both Norwegian and international stakeholders.
Fafo's current research in Africa focuses on:
- mobility and displacement
- war and peacekeeping economies
- local and global developments in education
- health and child labour
- social movements and inequality
- politics of faith and secularism in the Sahel
Fafo receives funding for our Africa projects from a range of institutions, including the Norwegian Research Council, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the World Bank, the US Institute of Peace, and the Norwegian Development Agency (NORAD).
Researchers
Jing Liu, Ingunn Bjørkhaug, Hedda Flatø and Anne Kielland
Children with disabilities during Covid-19. Tabulation report
Survey Data from rural Niger in 2019 and 2022
Survey Data from rural Niger in 2019 and 2022
Fafopaper 2022:11
Tewodros Aragie Kebede
Fafo-report 2018:27
Anne Kielland, Anne Hatløy, Tone Sommerfelt, Tewodros Aragie Kebede and Kathleen M. Jennings
Hidden in the numbers: Barriers to girls’ education in West Africa
A scoping study concerning knowledge about trends and sub-variations
A scoping study concerning knowledge about trends and sub-variations
Fafo-report 2017:39
Tone Sommerfelt, Anne Hatløy et Kristin Jesnes
Rapport Fafo 2015:20
Tone Sommerfelt, Anne Hatløy and Kristin Jesnes
Fafo-report 2015:19
Tone Sommerfelt et Kristin Jesnes
Rapport Fafo 2015:15
Anne Hatløy, Massa Coulibaly et Jing Liu
Rapport Fafo 2015:14
Massa Coulibaly and Anne Hatløy
Fafo-report 2015:13
Massa Coulibaly et Anne Hatløy
Rapport Fafo 2015:06
Tone Sommerfelt and Kristin Jesnes
Fafo-report 2015:05
Anne Hatløy, Massa Coulibaly and Jing Liu
Fafo-report 2015:04
Ingunn Bjørkhaug and Morten Bøås
Fafo-report 2014:39
Anne Hatløy, Tewodros Kebede, Huafeng Zhang, Ingunn Bjørkhaug
Perceptions of Good Jobs. Analytical Report. Port Loko and Freetown, Sierra Leone
Background paper for the World Development Report 2013
Background paper for the World Development Report 2013
Fafo-report 2012:18
Anne Hatløy, Tewodros Aragie Kebede, Patrick Joel Adeba and Core Elvis
Towards Côte d’Ivoire Sustainable Cocoa Initiative
Baseline Study Report
Baseline Study Report
Marina Manuela de Paoli, Arne Backer Grønningsæter, Elizabeth Mills
HIV/AIDS, the disability grant and ARV adherence
Summary report
Summary report
Fafo-report 2010:28
Amsale K. Temesgen
Climate Change to Conflict?
Lessons from Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya
Lessons from Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya
Fafo-report 2010:09
Henriette Lunde
Night commuting in Gulu, Northern Uganda
From Spontaneous Strategy to New Social Institution
From Spontaneous Strategy to New Social Institution
Fafo-report 549
May-Len Skilbrei, Marianne Tveit og Anette Brunovskis
Afrikanske drømmer på europeiske gater
Nigerianske kvinner i prostitusjon i Norge
Nigerianske kvinner i prostitusjon i Norge
Fafo-rapport 525
Morten Bøås and Anne Hatløy
After the ‘Storm’
Economic activities among returning youths. The case of Voinjama. Research Program on Trafficking and Child Labour
Economic activities among returning youths. The case of Voinjama. Research Program on Trafficking and Child Labour
Fafo-report 523
Morten Bøås and Anne Huser
Child labour and cocoa production in West Africa
The case of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Research Program on Trafficking and Child Labour
The case of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Research Program on Trafficking and Child Labour
Fafo-report 522
Morten Bøås and Anne Hatløy
Living in a material world
Children and youth in alluvial diamond mining in Kono District, Sierra Leone. Research Program on Trafficking and Child Labour
Children and youth in alluvial diamond mining in Kono District, Sierra Leone. Research Program on Trafficking and Child Labour
Fafo-report 515
Morten Bøås and Anne Hatløy
Fafo-report 496
Anne Hatløy og Anne Huser
Identification of street children
Characteristics of street children in Bamako and Accra
Characteristics of street children in Bamako and Accra
Fafo-report 474
Kari Hauge Riisøen, Anne Hatløy, Lise Bjerkan
Travel to Uncertainty
A study of child relocation in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Mali
A study of child relocation in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Mali
Fafo-report 440
Pete Lewis with Anne-Grete Larsen and Arne Groenningsaeter and Moses Galeboe and Spambaniso Taneka
Crossing borders to fight HIV/AIDS
The Role Of South African Multinationals In The Private Sector Response In Botswana
The Role Of South African Multinationals In The Private Sector Response In Botswana
Fafo-report 431
Line Eldring
Child Labour in the Tea Sector in Malawi
A Pilot Study
A Pilot Study
Fafo-paper 2003:16
Sabata Nakanyane
Co-operative Housing in Johannesburg
A Survey among the Residents
A Survey among the Residents
Fafo-paper 2002:04
Liv Tørres (ed.), David Drury, Line Eldring, Pete Lewis and Jocelyn Vass
The Mesebetsi labour force survey
Top line report
Top line report
Fafo-report 360
Marie W. Arneberg and Jon Pedersen
Fafo-report 355
Liv Tørres (ed.)
The Smoking Business
Tobacco tenants in Malawi
Tobacco tenants in Malawi
Fafo-report 339
Liv Tørres (ed.)
"We are emerging; emerging slowly and painfully!"
Infrastructure Delivery in South Africa
Infrastructure Delivery in South Africa
Fafo-report 336
Liv Tørres
Amandla. Ngawethu?
The Trade Union Movement in South Africa and Political Change. Doctoral Dissertation
The Trade Union Movement in South Africa and Political Change. Doctoral Dissertation
Fafo-report 328
Line Eldring, Sabata Nakanyane and Malehoko Tshoaedi
Child Labour in the Tobacco Growing Sector in Africa
Report prepared for the IUF/ITGA/BAT Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour, Nairobi 8-9th October 2000
Report prepared for the IUF/ITGA/BAT Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour, Nairobi 8-9th October 2000
Fafo-paper 2000:21
Anne Hatløy
Methodological aspects of assessing nutrition security
Examples from Mali. Doctoral dissertation
Examples from Mali. Doctoral dissertation
Fafo-report 323
Liv Tørres
Fafo-report 257
Bjørne Grimsrud and Liv Jorunn Stokke
Child labour in Africa: Poverty or institutional failures?
The cases of Egypt and Zimbabwe
The cases of Egypt and Zimbabwe
Fafo-report 233
Liv Tørres
Fafo-notat 1997:19
Liv Tørres
South African Workers Speak
Common Security Forum Studies
Common Security Forum Studies
Fafo-report 182
Inger-Lise Eilertsen og Carl-Erik Schulz
Økonomiske sanksjoner mot Sør-Afrika
Virkninger av ensidig norsk boikott
Virkninger av ensidig norsk boikott
Fafo-rapport 061
Camilla Houeland
The social contract and industrial citizenship: Nigerian trade unions’ role in the recurring fuel subsidy protestsAfrica | 2022 | Read the article
Camilla Houeland
Labour Resistance Against Fossil Fuel Subsidies Reform: Neoliberal Discourses and African RealitiesThe Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Labour Studies | 2021 | Read the book chapter
Camilla Houeland
Contentious and institutional politics in a petro-state: Nigeria's 2012 fuel subsidy protestsThe Extractive Industries and Society | 2020 | Link to article
Mapatano Mala Ali, Christiane Horwood & Anne Hatløy
Building a new master’s and PhD programme in nutritional epidemiology in KinshasaHow to face obstacles beyond the control of the project | 2019 | Åpen tilgang / Open access
Camilla Houeland
Between the street and Aso Rock: the role of Nigerian trade unions in popular protestsJournal of Contemporary African Studies | 2018 | Link to article
Kismul H, Hatløy, Andersen P, Mapatano M, Van den Broeck J and Molland KM (2015).
The social context of severe child malnutrition: a qualitative household case study from a rural area of the Democratic Republic of CongoInternational Journal for Equity in Health | 2015
Bekele Shiferaw, Tewodros Aragie Kebede, Menale Kassie and Monica Fisher
Market imperfections, access to information and technology adoption in Uganda: challenges of overcoming multiple constraintsAgricultural Economics | 2015 | Les mer / Read more
Camilla Houeland
Casualisation and Conflict in the Niger Delta: Nigerian Oil Workers' Unions Between Companies and CommunitiesRevue Tiers Monde | 2015 | Link to article
Kathleen M. Jennings
Life in a ‘Peace-kept’ City: Encounters with the Peacekeeping EconomyJournal of Intervention and Statebuilding | 2015 | http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/risb20/current
Kathleen M. Jennings
Service, sex, and security: Gendered peacekeeping economies in Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the CongoSecurity Dialogue | 2014 | External link
Tone Sommerfelt
From cutting to fading: A relational perspective on marriage exchange and sociality in rural GambiaSocial Analysis | 2013
Child migration in Africa/Iman Hashim & Dorthe Thorsen (2011). Book review
Forum for Development Studies | 2013
Forum for Development Studies | 2013
Kathleen M. Jennings
Unintended Consequences of Intimacy: Political Economies of Peacekeeping and Sex TourismInternational Peacekeeping | 2010 | External link
Forbindelser gjennom bryst: Om melk, sosial tilknytning og passende ekteskapspartnere blant wolof-talende folk i Vest-Afrika
Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift | 2010
Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift | 2010
Bjørkhaug I and Anne Hatløy A
Utilisation of Respondent Driven Sampling among a population of child workers in the diamond mining sector of Sierra LeoneGlobal Public Health | 2009
Kathleen M. Jennings
The political economy of DDR in Liberia: a gendered critiqueConflict, Security and Development | 2009 | External link
Anne Kielland
Barnearbeidsmigrasjoner i ulike landskapEn sammenstilling av barns arbeidsvandringer i Vest-Agder (1830-1910) og Vest Afrika (1980-2009) | 2009 | Link
Bekele A. Shiferaw, Tewodros Aragie Kebede and Liang You
Technology adoption under seed access constraints and the economic impacts of improved pigeon pea varieties in TanzaniaAgricultural Economics | 2008 | Les mer / Read more
Bøås M and Hatløy A
Alcohol and drugs in post-war Sierra LeoneJournal of Drug and Alcohol Studies | 2008
Bøås M and Hatløy A
Child labour in West Africa: Different children – Different work – Different vulnerabilitiesInternational Migration | 2008
Morten Bøås and Anne Hatløy
‘Getting in, getting out’: militia membership and prospects for re-integration in post-war LiberiaJournal of Modern African Studies | 2008 | External link
Morten Bøås and Kathleen M. Jennings
‘Failed States’ and ‘State Failure’: Threats or Opportunities?Globalizations | 2007 | External link
Kathleen M. Jennings
The Struggle to Satisfy: DDR Through the Eyes of Ex-Combatants in LiberiaInternational Peacekeeping | 2007 | External link
Pedersen, Jon & Tone Sommerfelt
Studying children in armed conflict: Data production, social indicators and analysisSocial Indicators Research | 2007
Hallund J, Hatløy A, Benesi I and Thilsted SH
Snacks are important for fat and vitamin intakes among rural African women: a cross-sectional study from MalawiEuropean Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2007
Bøås M and Hatløy A
Poor, terrorised and internally displaced: the humanitarian situation in Northern UgandaHumanitarian Exchange | 2006
Guy Blaise Nkamleu and Anne Kielland
Modeling farmers' decisions on child labor and schooling in the cocoa - sectorA multinomial logit analysis in Cote d'Ivoire
Journal of Agricultural Economics | 2006 | Link
Torheim LE, Ouattara F, Diarra MM, Thiam FD, Barikmo I, Hatløy A and Oshaug A
Nutrition adequacy and dietary diversity in rural Mali: association and determinantsEuropean Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2004
Torheim LE, Barikmo I, Parr C, Hatløy A, Ouatara F, Oshaug A
Validation of food variety as an indicator of diet quality assessed with a food frequency questionnaire for Western MaliEuropean Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2003
Torheim LE, Barikmo I, Hatløy A, Ouattara F, Diarra M and Oshaug A
Validation of a quantitative food frequency questionnaire in Western Mali | 2001Hatløy A, Hallund J, Diarra MM and Oshaug A
Food variety scores, socio-economic status and nutritional status in urban and rural areas in Koutiala (Mali)Public Health Nutrition | 2000
Hatløy A, Torheim LE and Oshaug A
Food variety – a good indicator of nutritional adequacy? A case study from an urban area in Mali, West AfricaEuropean Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 1998
Nordeide MB, Hatløy A, Følling M, Lie E and Oshaug A
Nutrient composition and nutritional importance of green leaves and wild food resources in an agricultural district, Koutiala, in Southern MaliInternational Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition | 1996
Oshaug A,Pedersen J, Diarra M, Ag Bendech M, Hatløy A
Problems and pitfalls in the use of estimated age in anthropometric measurements of children from 6 to 60 months of age: A case from MaliJournal of Nutrition | 1994
Tone Sommerfelt, Anne Hatløy and Kristin Jesnes
Wahhabiyya paranoia in Bamako and the new intolerance of the tolerantThe Broker | 2015 | The Broker Online
Tone Sommerfelt & Kristin Jesnes
State control of religious activity in southern Mali following the 2012 crisisNorwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre | 2015
Ingunn Bjørkhaug, Kathleen M. Jennings and Morten Bøås
Mapping and assessment of national, bilateral and multilateral actors support to work against sexual based violence in the Great Lakes region in Africa2010 | 2010 | Mapping and assessment of national, bilateral and multilateral actors’ support to work against sexual based violence in the Great Lakes region in Africa
Hatløy A, Kebede T, Aiello H and Langer S
Verification of Certification Activities in West African Cocoa Sector Final Verification Report: Côte d’Ivoire | 2008Hatløy A, Kebede T, Aiello H and Langer S
Verification of Certification Activities in West African Cocoa Sector Final Verification Report: Ghana | 2008Bjørkhaug I, Bøås M, Hatløy A and Jennings K
Returning to Uncertainty? Addressing Vulnerabilities in Northern Uganda | 2007Bøås M and Hatløy A
Northern Uganda IDP Profiling. Volume 1: Northern Uganda IDP Study | 2005Atallah A, Bøås M, El Dada H, Hatløy A, Zhang H
Northern Uganda IDP Profiling. Volume 2: Tabulation report | 2005Mossige A, Hatløy A, Luyinduladio N, Makengo AM, Mboso SK, Mpiana B and Nyonka N
Etude Pilote de Risques et de la Vulnérabilité en République Démocratique du Congo | 2004Anne Kielland and Ibrahima Sanogo
Burkina Faso: Child labor migration from rural areasAmpleur et facteurs determinants | 2002
Gironde, C., P. Sletten
L’Utilisation des Enfants dans les Conflits armés en Afrique Centrale: Manuel pour l’Évaluation Rapide | 2002Tone Fløtten
Dilemmas to be faced in delivery of infrastructure | 2000Kathleen M. Jennings
United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia (UNOMIL) | 2015 Oxford Handbook of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations | External linkKathleen M. Jennings
United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) | 2015 Oxford Handbook of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations | External linkAnne Kielland
The Exploitation Equation: Distinguishing child trafficking from other types of child mobility in West Africain Human Trafficking: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, ed. Mary C. Burke | 2013 | Link
Morten Bøås and Kathleen M. Jennings
Rebellion and warlordism: the spectre of neopatrimonialism | 2012 Neopatrimonialism in Africa and BeyondMorten Bøås and Kathleen M. Jennings
War in the Great Lakes Region and Ugandan Conflict Zones: Micro-regionalisms and Meta-narratives | 2008 Afro-Regions: The Dynamics of Cross-border Micro-regionalisms in AfricaKathleen M. Jennings
Securitizing the Economy of Reintegration in Liberia | 2008 Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding
Project management: Anne Hatløy
Project management: Anne Hatløy
Project management: Anne Hatløy
Project management: Anne Hatløy
Project management: Arne Backer Grønningsæter
Project management: Ingunn Bjørkhaug
Project management: Anne Hatløy
