The Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC) is an independent, international platform. Its Secretariat is hosted at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Its mission is to promote regional policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people in the Sahel and West Africa.

Its objectives are to: Improve the regional governance of food and nutrition security; Improve the understanding of ongoing transformations in the region and their policy implications through regional, spatial and forward-looking analyses.‌