The ISSP is a university institute. As such, it benefits from a more effective management system and a more efficient reorganization. The institute is administered by a Director assisted by a Deputy Director in charge of Academic and Scientific Affairs.

Its deliberating bodies are: the Management Council, the Scientific Council, the Assembly of Training or Research Units. The Training or Research Units include researchers, teacher-researchers from the ISSP and other structures of the University of Ouagadougou interested and competent in the subject.

The Units were created in order to harmonize scientific questions and give overall coherence to research projects. The ISSP has two Training Units which provide the Education and Training component, and three Research Units in addition to the Ouagadougou Population Observatory (OPO).

MISSION

Within the framework of its main mission, which is "to develop national and regional capacities for analyzing population and development issues and for formulating, monitoring and evaluating health and social policy programs", the Institute leads to both education / training and research activities. This situation is advantageous because it is beneficial to these two types of activities which are thus mutually reinforcing: research nourishes training which, in turn, enriches the research problematic. It also offers its expertise nationally and internationally.