The lack of a community of actors that are well-connected to one another makes the co-ordination of public policies in the region difficult. This approach is a research tool for the social and economic sciences, a lever of empowerment for local communities and non-governmental organisations and a tool to inform public policies. By mapping kinship, friendship, solidarity or business relationships constraints obscured by the complexity of social relationships are revealed. However, these second-order connections are crucial to understanding the autonomy of individuals in the network.