A warm welcome to you to this official home page of the website of Pan African Institute for Development – West Africa (PAID-WA), which brings you updates and news from its world of research, training, and capacity development. The past years have seen greater focus and intensification of our activities underpinned by significant investment, as it continues to make excellent strides to consolidate its strategic objectives in this regard.
Created in 1969, PAID-WA is part of the expanding network of Pan African Institute for Development International (I’PAID), a highly respected African institution providing capacity development and innovative research outcomes to accelerate the growth and development of the region. Our continental network, I’PAID, will be celebrating its 50th ANNIVERSARY this year 2014. Please look out for our activities on this site.
“To foster or support the economics, social, and cultural development of the African countries through action-research, support-consultancy and training of African officials to enable them assume responsibilities at various levels, in order to achieve self-development and improve their living conditions”.
“To be the reference centre for concerted, decent and sustainable economic, social and cultural development of the African continent, bringing together in every country all persons without distinction of race, nationality, religious origin, or belief and the Association shall accept no gifts, grants or contributions from any public or private institution which is subject to a condition contrary to its political and religious neutrality”.
The network of the International Association Pan African Institute for Development (PAID) whose headquarters is in Geneva-Switzerland is composed of a General Secretariat with two offices; one in Geneva and another in Yaoundé-Cameroon and five regional institutes...
Created in 1969 as an arm of international PAID (an international non-governmental organization (NGO) which was created in 1964, its mission is to promote sustainable development through training, research and advisory services at regional, country, organizational and community levels working in close collaboration with Government, NGOs, Civil Society Organizations(CSOs), Institutions as well as International communities.
There's been an increasing drive by development institutions and agencies in West Africa and Africa in general, to upscale the impact they create and the results they achieve in the field of development. In reality, these development agencies are highly complex and organic in nature.
PAID-WA is an International Institute with enrolled students from different countries in West Africa
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