Trafficking is an emerging concern inWest Africa that is gaining increasing attention from theinternational community. This paper examines therelationship between trafficking and fragility in the regionthrough a meta-analysis of existing knowledge and data onthe subject. Given the scope of this paper, we will notattempt to provide any primary empirical or qualitativeanalysis, but instead focus on offering a comprehensive,unbiased overview of the recent policy and academicliterature on the subject, which we hope will assistdevelopment practitioners working in the region and help theWorld Bank identify possible programmatic responses. Theauthors start this paper by defining trafficking to frameour analysis, and then provide an overview of thetrafficking economy across the region. Next, authors outlinethe potential channels between trafficking and fragility,discussing the actors involved (organized criminal groups,rebels, local or national level politicians, the military,and civilians) and their relevance to specific countries.Finally, the authors present our suggestions on possiblepolicy and programmatic responses, based on identifying bothregional and external dimensions to the problems.
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