CICRED regularly contributes to developing scientific cooperation among the Centres through international research programmes. The aim of this line of activities is to facilitate the participation to research initiatives on emerging research topics by centres in the South.

Three major research programmes have been launched in the recent past

• PRIPODE: dimensions of population-environment-development interactions in developing countries
  An international programme on demographic and environmental linkages launched in 2002
  
• Land tenure: population dynamics and land tenure systems in four different national settings
  A FAO-supported programme on land tenure and demographic change in four countries
  
• Onchocerciasis: demographic change in Onchocerciasis-ridden areas of Western Africa
  A FAO-supported programme on nine countries in West Africa