Reducing Inequalities for Women -Youth Reducing Inequalities for Women and Youth for Active Citizenship
The present project entitled: Reducing Inequalities towards Women and Youth for Active Citizenship was identified after analysis of the unfortunate events that occurred in the city of Niamey and Zinder among others :- In 2011, the student demonstration that resulted in the death of a student and a woman and enormous damage to public and private property in the city of Zinder ;- The demonstration of January 14, 2014 of students of the College of General Education 4 and College of Secondary Education Barma Mustapha of Zinder, which resulted in breakages at the regional police headquarters,on public and private property (three vehicles ransacked and burned, offices vandalized ....);- In Niamey, the march of schoolchildren caused many break-ins in November 2013;- On April 10, 2017, death of the student Bagalé Mallah following the confrontation between the Defense and Security Forces and the students of Abdoul Moumouni University in Niamey; - Strong protest reactions following the march "I am Charlie" in 2015, in almost all major cities of Niger but in Niamey and Zinder the march was more violent: burned churches, houses and state buildings ransacked, theft of property of others, deaths of menand arrest of demonstrators.  - In 2020, with the measures taken by the government as part of the prevention of COVID, young people in Niamey, particularly the Goudel district and Cité Député, organized protests against these measures, particularly the curfew introduced and the ban on places of worship, including Friday prayers. Demonstrations were violent, and there was extensive damage to property, which led the government to arrest thedemonstrators/demonstrators.  It is important to note, with political tensions, high unemployment and unemployed youth, poverty, and lack of a culture of citizenship, whenever students are on strike, the movement is sometimes recuperated by political structures and organizations and infiltrated by people outside the law.Thus, instead of marching peacefully with a well-traced route no, the streets are transformed into battlefields and both public and private property destroyed. The demonstration is a right for every citizen because it is provided for in the constitution,but the protection and respect of public and private property is also a duty for every citizen. These acts of vandalism are surely due to the lack of knowledge and/or the non-respect of the rights and duties of citizenship, which boils down to a lack oftheculture of citizenship among young people. Thus to make its modest contribution, the NGO Nagari has in partnership with the NGO EIRENE works with the Fadas of young people of Goudel on a project entitled: Promotion of peacein peri-urban areas of Niamey.So the main activities are :- Information and sensitization sessions for the youth of the Fadas in order to strengthen peaceful cohabitation; - Concertations and dialogue with youth groups on conflict prevention and management mechanisms,- Training of young leaders on non-violent conflict management.- Production of radio programs with the Youth of the Fadas.- Creation of a whatsapp group and production and exchange of small messagesTo strengthen/complete this initiative and broaden its scope of intervention, the NGO Nagari approached the communal authorities of the commune 1 of Niamey and Zinder for this innovative project. Through a game on the basis of the tool Democra pol, the project will allow to reinforce the culture of the citizen, and a betterknowledge of human rights and the role and responsibilities of the actors of decentralization and in the management/control of infrastructures. This initiative is particularly aimed at the involvement of young people (school children and members of Fadas/club) indecision-making spheres and their accountability in the management of their respective entities and even of the entire country.Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)