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The social demand for anthropology has placed it within frameworks of application and collaboration with other disciplines. This part of action-oriented research requires retrieving study results. In the field of public health, restitution is one of the ways in which anthropologists can contribute in the area of action. In anthropology, restitution is commonly seen as a time of return analysis induced by field research with key stakeholders. This article examines times of restitution as part of a research program ultimately dedicated to the transformation of the behaviors of providers and users of public health services in Burkina Faso. It is less a linear description of the expectations in these meetings than one of the stakes of the involvement of anthropology in research meant to accompany action research. Our aim is to turn these restitution periods into constitutive aspects of the reflexivity necessary for anthropological practice, whatever the framework in which it takes place. The dynamic of the exchanges around the anthropological contribution reveal significant effects that lead to qualify the generic term restitution and the stakes it involves.