CARE NIGER IN FACTS Learn about the different programs and projects in Niger Niger FACTSHEET THE SITUATION OVERVIEW Since 1974, CARE International in Niger has touched the lives of more than 4 2.3 MILLION 1.2 MILLION million people through our work empowering women and youth, managing people are in need of children are in need of natural resources, promoting food security and nutrition, economic opportunities humanitarian assistance assistance for youth and interfaith dialogue, adaptation to climate change and responding to emergencies. 1.7 MILLION 1.4 people are in need of in need of food water, sanitation and hygiene CARE Niger intends to reach more than 4 million people by WHAT CARE IS DOING... supporting entrepreneurship with loans, 2020 focusing on women, rehabilitating water sources and building equipment and technical advice through VSLA girls, youth and people durable water points so people don’t have to walk so far or queue so long for water receiving humanitarian from unsafe sources providing agricultural products (including seeds assistance in 110,000 and tools), technologies and trainings to help 75% people regain their livelihoods households of Diffa, Maradi, providing hygiene kits and promotion of Niamey, Tahoua, Tillabéry, WASH working to empower youth with peace-building Zinder, Dosso and Agadez and vocational training so they have other distributing cash and blanket feedings to regions. income options besides leaving the country families so they can buy food and supplies and go look for jobs in other countries for their families and feed the children under 5 FUNDED vs. WOMEN IN CONFLICT NEED Women and children make up to 68% of those displaced by the conflict and some NEED CARE Niger has a secure displaced households in some areas of the country affected by the crisis are female- funding of 50 million USD and US $75 headed. Displaced women often bear the burden of supporting their families and living in seeking 25 million USD more to MILLION conflict increases the risk of gender based violence due to overcrowding in shelters and achieve its target goal of 110 having to travel longer distances to water points. CARE Niger has programming in 000 households living in the protection in the region of Diffa where support groups to victims have been set up. regions of Agadez, Diffa, 67% secured Dosso, Maradi, Tahoua, Tillabery and Zinder by 2023. Updated: 11/10/18 Credit: Rakiétou Hassane Mossi www.care.org; www.care-international.org Leadership and Empowerment of Women and Youth This program includes four projects that focus on the promotion and protection of rights, economic empowerment, leadership and empowerment of women and youth. 2 October 17, 2018 Leadership and Empowerment of Women and Youth (LEFJ) The Programmatic Goal Leadership and Empowerment of Women and Youth (LEFJ): Nearly 500,000 women are active members of the groups thanks to the MMD approach (Mata Masu Dubara) initiated by CARE in Niger since 1991. It is on this movement that the LEFJ program is built today to carry the voice of women and young people, initiate and amplify changes in social norms in favor of gender equality. This program is one of the three pillars of CARE International's work in Niger. It aims at the end of 2020, "that the women and youth of the 110,000 households targeted by CARE Niger are autonomous and realize their socio-economic and political rights". CARE’s Response Since 1974, CARE International in Niger has OVERVIEW touched the lives of more than 4 million people through our work in the areas of women and youth The program aims to 75% 52% empowerment, natural resource management, the facilitate access to promotion of food and nutrition security, the promotion school for 30,000 girls of economic opportunities for youth and interreligious by the end of 2020 dialogue, climate change adaptation and emergency 12,000 young people of elected women of women own response. productive assets (land, will access economic are from Mata Masu opportunities and built plots, harnessed Dubara (MMD) participate in the crop units, etc..) promotion of peace. The program aims “I do not know how to read and write but I to have 9000 new believe that today everywhere I can MMD women compete with educated people.” - TCHIMA IBRAHIM, President of the Regional Chamber of Agriculture and Livestock of Maradi Updated: 02/10/18 Credit: Rakiétou Hassane Mossi www.care.org; www.care-international.org PROMEESS The PROmotion of Social Equity-Equality of Civil Society program constitutes a consolidation of CARE's work in the contribution to the empowerment of women in Niger and to the exploration of new challenges such as women's entrepreneurship and support for Mata Masu Dubara (MMD) structures towards an umbrella organization uniting all MMD components from local to national level. The process of design was participatory and iterative with a wide variety of actors involved. Evaluation documents, including those from the program PROMEESS and national level surveys were widely consulted. It is the result of the successive phases of the MMD program from 1991 to 2015. CARE’s Response Since 1974, CARE International in Niger has OVERVIEW touched the lives of more than 4 million people through our work in the areas of women and youth 4867 young people were 75% 80% empowerment, natural resource management, the trained on skills and promotion of food and nutrition security, the promotion livelihoods between January of economic opportunities for youth and interreligious and June 2018 dialogue, climate change adaptation and emergency of the goal of new groups elected women in the response. 2 564 109 people were were created after three reached directly and project’s intervention years of project indirectly at the end of area are MMD members implementation fiscal year 2018 “Thanks to CARE I became a mirror for 6 327 282 USD was women in my community. I want to become funded by NORAD over four years to implement an adviser or a minister of the government.” PROMEESS II - LANTANA ABDOU, President of a group of Masaourari, Maradi Updated: 04/09/18 Credit: Rakiétou Hassane Mossi www.care.org; www.care-international.org SAFPAC SAFPAC operates in 10 health centers in the Gaya and Djounjou Health District; its overall goal is to increase women's access to modern methods of FP and quality post-abortion care. It has two strategic axes of intervention: axis 1 or clinical component which intervenes at the level of the Health Centers to reinforce the availability and the quality of the offer in FP and SAA through the training of the health workers and the various supports in materials, products and consumables essential to carry out FP / SAA activities. Axis 2 has its intervention at community level through sessions of dialogues with the population on FP; these dialogues are driven by community catalysts who are trained on the VCAT (Values Clarification and Attitudinal CARE’s Response Transformation) methodology to reduce the barriers to effective use of FP services. Since 1974, CARE International in Niger has touched OVERVIEW the lives of more than 4 million people through our work in the areas of women and youth empowerment, The project targets to touch natural resource management, the promotion of food 52,374 women of 99% 82% and nutrition security, the promotion of economic reproductive age opportunities for youth and interreligious dialogue, climate change adaptation and emergency response 89 262 women, men, girls and boys have been of project participants of participants in this indirectly reached by the were reached by the end of project are women project at the end of the FY18 2018 fiscal year The budget amount for the “We became contraceptive promoters SAFPAC project is150 000 because we wanted to end malnutrition in USD for a period of 24 months our village.” - ABDOULAHI ABDOULSAMAF ALACHI, Family Planning Promoter Updated: 02/10/18 Credit: Rakiétou Hassane Mossi www.care.org; www.care-international.org IMAGINE IMAGINE: Inspiring Married Adolescent Girls to Imagine New Empowered Futures is a multi-country project implemented in Niger and Bangladesh that specifically targets 15-19 married and unmarried girls, their husbands, their families, their communities, and health workers from the Mirriah Department (Zinder region) . Its objectives are to identify, design and test promising interventions that enable girls, their husbands and families to make healthy and informed decisions about the right time to first birth; ensure access to family planning services to prevent potential complications of early pregnancy; girls and their husbands to consider, value and follow other trajectories / alternatives to early childbearing; improve the economic participation of girls to support their progression towards higher value-added activities; strengthen the understanding of communities, governments, international organizations and CARE’s Response donors on the innovative, participatory, inclusive, creative and interactive strategy to postpone the date of first birth to married 15 to 19 year olds; document and share the lessons of this initiative Since 1974, CARE International in Niger has touched OVERVIEW with the development community to inform other stakeholders. the lives of more than 4 million people through our work in the areas of women and youth empowerment, The project aims to directly natural resource management, the promotion of food reach 1375 adolescent girls and nutrition security, the promotion of economic and 1375 young men opportunities for youth and interreligious