Seminar on Gender Perspective
in Environment and Development

Planting vitelleria paradoxa fordeveloping local women economy in
the national Park
Boukar Koura Yagana
Programs manager of National Park and Reserve Niger
2009.03.17

REPUBLIC OF NIGER
Capital Niamey
Niger is bordered byLibya, Algeria, ChadMali ,Burkina Faso
Benin, Nigeria.
Area size is1,267,000 km².

Religions
 Muslim 90%
 Others 10%

Total population
 Urban population
 Population growth14.2 million (2008)
16.8%
3.3%

The ethnics groupsHaoussa
 Djerma Kanuri Peul TouaregOfficial language :French Niger is one of the poorest and least

developed countries in the world, with over
80% of its territory covered by the Sahara
desert, and much of the rest threatened byperiodic drought and desertification.
 people live in majority in the south bandof the country favorable to agriculture.

Leadership and political participation
 There are measurable improvements ofwomen participation in public live
Women received right to vote and theystood for election since 1948 but we havefew numbers of women in decisions
making, they are consideredas housewives and children bearers

Deforestation
wildlife
population threatened because of poaching andhabitation destruction

 Overgrazing, soil erosion deforestation = desertification

250,000 ha are losteach year in Niger
by cutting wood for
Cooking (90%)

Due to its
rarefication(wood), it’snecessary to cover a
distance to find someeach day this is fatigue
for women

Through JICA seminar I got a lot of experinces
and learned many valuable lessons aboutcommunity development and environmental
conservation specifically: greennery of the cities
 prevention of river and marine pollution
 securing safe drinking water
 waste collection, its transportation, incineration
and recycling
 organic farming…..

ACTION PLAN

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Project Title:
Planting vitelleria paradoxa for developing
local women economy in the national Park

Objectives:
 To promoteecosystems conservation
 To ensure sustainable source of firewood
by local women in the Park To reduce women’s work for collecting
firewoodReason for selecting this project
Reforestation of the Park, providing fuel wood,
halting soil erosion and desertification
 Raising awareness on the importance of theenvironment
 Raising awareness of the need to protect local
biological diversity
 Empowerment of women Improve image of womenDuration of the project
 two years
Budget Government of Niger
 Donors contribution Partners
 Local community
52,500 seedlings on 20ha for 26,565,000 US$

Activities information dissemination to raise local awareness on

the importance of planting trees and establish contactwith groups Training in trees nursing techniques for the localwomen Creation of trees seed nursing units Production of seedlings Reporting on the progress of the nursery Purchasing and planting of trees after digging holes Monitoring of the trees nursing
 Conduction of periodic evaluations

My role in this project In this project my role is to mobilize

women, to train and provide them regular
technical support to the trees nursing

Foreseen obstaclesHow to deliver the conservation message because
rural women are illiterateHow to make women understanding and own theproject

How to motivate local womenMeasures to tackle the obstacles
 To help women to perceive theenvironment as a real and living part oftheir communal life

 To communicate all details concerning

the project to the local women To work patiently by repeating abstract

ideas before they are internalizedIndicators to measure outputs
 Number of trees nursing managers trained
 Number of trees nursing sites created andequipped Number of trees plants produced and sold
 Number of trees plants planted Percentage of trees nursing whichsurvived

Expected outcomes To increase trees cover and recoverbiodiversity
 To make a change in the women lives (nolong distance to fetch food) and in thequality of household (save financially)
 To earn income after trees maturity