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Country card (SAHA Programme)

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HI’s team and where we work There are 90 staff members on HI’s team in Niger.

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General country data

a. General data Country Niger Burkina Faso France Population 23,310,715 20,321,378 67,059,887 HDI 0.377 0.434 0.891 IHDI 0.272 0.303 0.809 Maternal mortality 535 341 10 Gender Related Development Index 0.30 0.87 0.98 Population within UNHCR mandate 175,418 25,122 368,352 INFORM Index 7.4 6.4 2.2 Fragile State Index 95.3 85.9 30.5 GINI Index1 34.3% 35.3% 31.6% Net official development assistance 1196.32 1110.58 0 received

b. Humanitarian law instruments ratified by the country

Humanitarian law instruments Status Mine Ban Treaty Ratification/Accession: 23/03/1999 Convention on Cluster Munitions Ratification/Accession: 02/06/2009 Convention on the Rights of Persons Ratification/Accession: 24/06/2008 with Disabilities

c. Geopolitical analysis

Niger is located in the south Sahara, at the heart of Africa. It covers 1,267,000 sq.km., two-thirds of which is desert. Niger shares borders with Algeria and Libya to the north, Chad to the east, Nigeria and Benin to the south and Burkina Faso and Mali to the west. Its capital is .

Niger is a landlocked country and enjoys good relations with its neighbours on which its economy and security depend. It is a member of many regional organisations (the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States - ECOWAS, the G5 Sahel, the Community of Sahel and Sahara States - CEN-SAD, etc.); it is also a member of the

1 https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI

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Organization for Islamic Cooperation and the International Organization of the Francophonie.

The country has suffered repeated terrorist attacks since 2011 and has taken in large numbers of refugees. Despite the establishment of the G5 Sahel joint cross-border force, Niger continues to face a steadily deteriorating security situation.

Negative perceptions and attitudes perpetuated by the families of people with disabilities and the community at large remain the greatest obstacle to the successful integration of people with disabilities into society.

Summary of HI’s work in the country

In May 2006, after conducting an exploratory mission and developing two projects (a pilot project on education and a project on disability and community), HI opened an office in Niamey.

HI subsequently implemented two regional projects in Niger. The first, launched in 2008, was the DECISIPH (Rights, Equality, Citizenship, Solidarity and Inclusion of People with Disabilities) project; the second was the APPEHL (Promoting the Full Participation of Children with Disabilities through Education) project launched in 2012.

HI expanded the scope of its work in 2012 with the launch of the RICA (Food Security and Resilience) and RC/VA (Armed Violence Reduction) projects in , and the launch of ESSPOIR (Prevention and Reduction of the Risks of Complications and Disabling Sequelae in Malnourished Children or Children with Developmental Delays Under the Age of 5) in 2015.

In 2016, the SUDA (Strengthen, Use, Develop and Augment) project updated the training programme for physiotherapists in Niger and provided training equipment and aids to the Niger Physiotherapy Organisation.

In 2017, after conducting a study to evaluate the effectiveness of the computer modeling and 3D printing of prostheses, HI fitted its first patients as part of the regional IMPACT 3D project.

HI is currently providing support to vulnerable people in Niger including people with disabilities affected by humanitarian response in (ACTIPH project); urban refugees and asylum seekers in the city of Niamey since 2015 (Urban Refugees and Asylum Seekers Project); and people living near weapons stockpiles (AVR project).

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HI’s education project helps children with disabilities to access and stay in primary education. HI has partnered with FNPH to implement a project on the social and legal inclusion of women and children with disabilities in Niger.

At the end of 2019, HI launched a project to strengthen the resilience and social cohesion of vulnerable people in cross-border regions (RECOSA). Despite the health crisis caused by COVID-19, HI was able to adapt its current activities to meet the needs of vulnerable people.

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Current projects Sectors where HI implements projects, focusing on beneficiaries and partners

Main sectors Project goals Main activities Beneficiaries Beneficiaries Partners Location Project in the sector at the end of start and the project end date and funding bodies INCLUSIVE Provide all - Capacity-building - 5,042 children - Ministry of Niamey Sep EDUCATION children with (teachers, educational with disabilities Education, Maradi 2017 - an equitable, advisers, school - 656 teachers Public Dec inclusive and committees, parents- - 635 community health 2022

quality teacher associations, actors and education DPOs) - 8 schools Population - Identification/care- - FNPH management and follow- Decentralized up of children with School disabilities Management - Raising community Committees awareness of inclusive - ANPE/E education (national - Carrying out building organisation works to improve for the

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accessibility parents - Family support of children and students) Haut INCLUSIVE Promote the -Training of trainers for -4,400 5,240 people -FNPH (Niger Diffa LOCAL inclusion of the inclusion technical community Federation of Tillaberi DEVELOPME people with team members, People with NT disabilities in -DPO organisational including 625 Disabilities) humanitarian support people with -NGOs response and -Training/awareness- disabilities -Local development raising for humanitarian -161 elected authorities initiatives in actors, local authorities officials and Diffa and technical services on technical service disability and inclusive managers planning for local -37 humanitarian development actors (15 in -Raising community Niamey and 22 in awareness of social Diffa) inclusion -Infrastructure accessibility assessment -District institutional capacities assessment -Access to civil-status documents -Implementation of a community follow-up committee

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-Support implementing community projects Management Protection -One-stop shop for Malian refugees The Office of Niamey January to of refugee and reception, information living in Niamey, the United December camps and assistance and guidance services including children Nations 2020 population for urban -Personalised social and women High return refugees assistance service for the victims of Commissioner and asylum most vulnerable refugees violence for Refugees seekers in -Raising awareness of Services of the (UNHCR) Niamey social services city of Niamey Local -Implementing a system authorities of registration, Service accommodation, providers in livelihood support and the health, assistance to meet the education and protection needs of social affairs asylum seekers sectors -Prevention and identification of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Holistic management of proven cases: medical, psychosocial, legal and socio-economic. -Implementation of a community-based mechanism to identify

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children at risk

Armed Reducing the - Technical training for Civilians living CNCCAI Niamey, November violence risks related the Defence and Security near military (National Tillaberi, 2019 to reduction/Sm to Forces (FDS) in charge of camps; Commission Tahoua, April 2021 all arms and conventional the management of CNCCAI for the Agadez and light weapons weapons by weapons and munitions (National Collection and . protecting stockpiles Commission for Control of civilians from - the Collection and Illegal accidents Construction/rehabilitatio Control of Illegal Weapons) caused by n of weapons and Weapons); Niger's armed weapons munitions stockpile Niger's armed forces (FAN) stockpiling facilities in accordance forces. National with international norms Gendarmerie and standards of Niger -Support for military units National Guard specialised in the of Niger destruction of obsolete weapons and munitions REHABILITAT Prevent and -Construction and -Severe and -3,052 children Ministry of Maradi, June 2019 ION limit the equipping of spaces with moderately -6,104 Public Health Communes to May (Stimulation, complications stimulation equipment malnourished mothers/father (Department of 2021 developmenta and disabling -Training children under 5 s/guardians of of Nutrition); , l sequelae of physiotherapists -Children at risk children Ministry for the Safo, Dan physiotherapy malnutrition -Stimulation training for and/or -12,208 people Advancement Issa, Gabi, ) in children trainers developmentally from extended of Women, under 5 -Training of social and delayed children families and Child and suffering from health workers - -25 social and Protection; severe acute -Management of Parents/extended health workers The

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malnutrition. stimulation exercises for family members -107 local Association of children under 5 of malnourished actors and Physiotherapis children community ts (AKN); -Social and health leaders MSF; workers -16 actors from Regional -Local actors and local, Public Health community regional/nation Department; leaders al authorities Regional -Local, regional Department and national for Population, authorities the Advancement of Women, and Child Protection. Livelihood & Build the -Carrying out -Very poor -4,000 -Regional Tillaberi Dec 2019 - social resilience and Participatory Vulnerability households households Department Dec 2023 cohesion social and Capacity Studies -Public technical benefiting from for Agriculture cohesion of (EPVCs) and supporting services cash transfers and Livestock vulnerable the implementation of 5,830 people -Local people in community projects involved in authorities of cross-border -Implementing savings and , regions community projects loan activities , -Cash transfers 400 very poor Diagougou, -Transfers of productive households assets (IGA, livestock, benefiting from -Regional agricultural inputs) cash for work Department -Setting up village -50 trained and for

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savings and loan equipped Humanitarian organisations livestock Affairs auxiliaries -50 people supported to enter the livestock-meat chain

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Funding bodies

Directorate for Development United Nations International Cooperation of the Luxembourg Ministry Children's Emergency Fund of European and Foreign Affairs (UNICEF) Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)

United Nations High

Commissioner for Refugees

(UNHCR) European Union (EU) The Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement (PM/WRA) of the State Department

Coopération belge au développement Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO)

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