</titre> The « logical framework » is a rational tool for public action, based on a planning perspective focusing on objectives, indicators and expected outcomes. Omnipresent in development institutions, it emphasises a strictly managerial perspective centred on quantifiable factors, legitimization...

Cash transfers in Africa exhibit many contradictions specific to development aid and humanitarian aid. The norms defined by international institutions and NGOs for accessing such ?manna? are in fact not approved by local beneficiaries, who nevertheless keep quiet, while smoothly circumventing...

Cash Transfer programs in Africa have recently become, after other continents, a privileged formula for humanitarian aid and development assistance. In Niger, a sum of money is unconditionally transferred directly to the beneficiary, identified as amongst the poorest of the poor. But this is...

<alinea/> Jean-Pierre OLIVIER DE SARDAN is directeur d?études at EHESS in Marseille and director of research at the CNRS. He works in Niger at the LASDEL (Laboratory for Study and Research on Social Dynamics and Local Development) where scholars from Niger and Benin conduct research in social...