Demba Karagnara

Demba Karagnara is project leader with Welthungerhilfe (WHH) of the project “Resilience of host communities and IDPs affected by armed conflict and intercommunal violence” in central Mali, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Since 2017, he has been working with the NGO Welthungerhilfe (WHH) in the north and centre of the country. Demba is a geographer by training, specialising in local and territorial development planning and management, disaster risk management, and conflict prevention and management based on local conflict resolution mechanisms. He has coordinated several World Bank studies in Mali. In particular, he has worked on the role of "joking relationships" in the prevention and management of land-related conflicts.

Study on land transfer systems in West Africa that Demba coordinated