CO-REGIONAL CAMPAIGN 30% Over the past two decades, with the discovery and exploitation of new resources, Niger has become one of the major mining countriesin the sub-region. Already the world's fourth-largest producer of mined uranium since 1974, Niger has also become an oil producer since 2011. In 2016, the country's mining capital is further confirmed with the discovery of significant new gold reserves. For a poor country like Niger, the availability of all these natural resources is legitimately seen as a real development opportunity. Unfortunately, their development has not always met the expectations of the population. On the contrary, the extractive industries are becoming a real nightmare because they are synonymous with pollution, environmental degradation, the reduction of cultivation and livestock areas, social wastage, civil war and an increase in all forms of inequality. Already, due to the high prevalence of illiteracy (around 30%), strongly traditionalist and/or cultural habits have become established among the populations. This is reflected in strong inequalities, particularly between men and women, but also between young people and adults. The mining sector does not seem to escape this unfortunate situation, given what is currently happening on the mining sites. In Niger, every year after the harvest, dueto poverty and idleness, men tend to migrate to coastal countries where they hope to make some small savings by working in small jobs. They leave behind their wives and children with only a few quantities of cereals obtained from the last harvests and which only last a few weeks. Thus, these women flock to urban centers where they engage in begging. But nowadays, with the development of mining activities, they are heading towards the mining sites, particularlythe gold mining sites. Thus, hundreds and hundreds of women find themselves working in small businesses. Our various visits to these sites have allowed us to realize the treatment that these women undergo. They are overexploited, raped, robbed, and oftentreated like slaves. There are many children, including young girls brought back by their own mother, aunt or sister. Often, in order to benefit from the protection of a gold digger or any other largesse on his part, these guardians deliver the children tothe pleasure of their master, or at the very least, proceed with a temporary and circumstantial marriage. As a result, the mining sites become the site of premature and unwanted pregnancies, early and forced marriages, and the work of miners, which is itself prohibited by law. The meager presence of security posts, when they exist on these sites, does not seem to take care of these aspects. Thus, gradually this situation seems to be accepted as a logic of the mining sites.At another mining site, we foundwomen and children crushing and grinding rocks into gravel with only their bloody hands. This hard-harvested product is sold on the spot to crooked wholesalers who buy it for 200 francs a kilo, while they sell the same product for 500 francs in the urbancenters. At the same time, many other women's structures are trying to evolve in various sectors, but they aresuffocated by all kinds of inequalities that deprive them of the means to flourish. At a time when more and more resources are being exploited andcommercialized by the country, it is important to act so that women and youth do not remain on the sidelines of this development opportunity. If this project is implemented, it will correct certain inequalities, because it will allow women's structures to benefit from 30% of the amounts retroceded to the communes and regions to support the development and emergence of women's and youth structures.