This project was undertaken in collaboration with the Unité d’Enseignement et de Recherche en Démographie (UERD) based at the University of Ouagadougou. A pilot urban demographic surveillance system was launched in Ouagadougou in 2001—the first such system in West Africa—in which health indicators were gathered regularly from residents of a slum and a comparison nonslum settlement.

In collaboration with the University of South Maine, researchers tested software developed to monitor the household registration system in rural Navrongo, Ghana, in the urban environment of Ouagadougou.

In 2003 a pilot health intervention was fielded to assess the effects of an urban community-based health delivery system for malaria treatment. The study found that in poor areas of Ouagadougou, such delivery systems have good potential for extending services (and appropriate referral) to those who otherwise could not afford them.

Location

Developing world; Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Duration

2001–2004

Population Council researchers

Mark R. Montgomery, Paul C. Hewett, James F. Phillips

Non-Council collaborators

Banza Baya, Viviane Ky, Gabriel Pictet, Robert Pond (UERD, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)

Donors

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Population Council

US Agency for International Development

Publications/Resources
Council researchers' names appear in boldface type.

2001
Hewett, Paul C. and Mark R. Montgomery. “Poverty and public services in developing-country cities,” Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 154. New York: Population Council. (PDF) (abstract)

* Not available from the Population Council.