Innovation sociale et gouvernance collaborative dans les programmes de développement en Afrique subsaharienne : vers un cadre d'analyse intégré

Development programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa face a structural tension between top-down institutional logics driven by results-based management frameworks and bottom-up social dynamics generated by field actors and civil society organisations. This tension reveals the limitations of conventional analytical frameworks, which fail to simultaneously account for collective innovation processes, multi-stakeholder governance configurations, and the social and territorial effects produced by these programmes. This article proposes an integrated analytical framework built around two complementary concepts: social innovation, understood as a collective process of responding to unmet social needs aimed at transforming social relations and institutions, and collaborative governance, grounded in participation, deliberation, and the co-construction of shared rules among public, private, and community actors. Drawing on management sciences, organisational sociology, and the social and solidarity economy, the article examines the organisational conditions that facilitate or constrain the emergence of social innovation, the forms of multi-stakeholder coordination adapted to African contexts, and the sustainable performance frameworks needed to evaluate the qualitative, institutional, and territorial effects of development programmes. The proposed framework is structured around four interdependent analytical dimensions : organisational dynamics, actor configurations, governance instruments, and sustainable performance and will be empirically tested through a comparative study between France and Côte d'Ivoire. This contribution aims to enrich theoretical debates on social innovation in the Global South and to provide practitioners with analytical tools suited to the complexity of contemporary development programmes.