The Center for African Development Policy Research (CADPR) is an interdisciplinary academic program established at Western Michigan University in October 2000. The Center is a joint program of the WMU Department of Economics of the College of Arts and Sciences,and the Diether H. Haenicke Institute for International and Area Studies. It is an interdisciplinary program intended to foster collaborative research activities with relevant WMU academic departments and units in implementing it's activities.