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Nutrition and primary health assistance For many decades now, the SAHEL region and Niger in particular has been a desperate scene of famine and drought. The worst affected people are children and women who chronically suffer from moderate and severe malnutrition. in 2010, alomost 2.7 million people (20% of the total population of Niger) were severely malnurished. 
Niger, which is the poorest country in the world, has millions of people including many children struggling to survive recurrent food shortage which has led to chronic malnutrition throughout the country. Irregular rainfalls and failure in food crops has caused poor harvest and as a result  food prices has increased beyond poor families reach.  Despite a relatively better harvest in 2010, malnutrition remains rampant in Tillabery region and other Niger regions. 

The rate of acute global malnutrition in National level is 15.5% and most of the region reaches the emergency rate (15%).In Tillaberi region including Filingué district the rate of acute malnutrition is 16.3%. (Niger National nutrition survey October 2010).

IR’s future intervention aims at supporting existing health systems by providing health assistance and improves the quality of malnutrition treatment in Filingué through 01 therapeutic (TFC) and 05 supplementary feeding centres (SFCs), to malnourished children and pregnant/ lactating mothers. 
This will be implemented in the region of Tillaberi, more precisely in Filingue district (1 TFC & 5 SFCs) district.
Institutional support to CADEV Niger Executive Secretariat CADEV Niger is a long term CAFOD partner. Its National executive Secretariat is the coordinating body of the work of CARITAS throughout the country. Due to the relatively small size of the Catholic church in Niger, local revenues is limited and not sufficient to sustain CADEV Niger's core costs, including salaries for key staff. In solidarity to CADEV, all sister agencies contribute funding towards the costs of CADEV core/operating costs and salaries. This contribution allows CADEV to retain core competencies including the executive secretary, Program Quality & monitoring Manager, The Finance & Admin Manager, The Emergency Response Officer as well as junior support staff including drivers, guards and Cleaners. By so doing, the sister agencies ensure that most of the local resources that CADEV mobilizes is spent towards providing critical assistance to those in need. This support also ensure that CADEV work is performed by skilled professionals in line with CIMS.
For the period covering 2019, 2020 and 2021, CAFOD has pledged an annual contribution of 10,000,000 CFA to support CADEV Core costs, including the cost of a full time security officer to cope with the changing security environment
Support to health services in NGoula Health centre This project aims to help support a medical centre in Ngoula, Niger.

Ngoula is situated at 80 kms off road with limited infrastructures. The only infrastructures, such as a primary and secondary schools and boreholes for drinking water were built by the Catholic Church. Due to the request from the community, the church built a health centre with at least 10 beds. 

The centre has been providing good services to the community for the last year; supporting malnourished children, providing curative services, vaccinations, maternity services, etc. The church signed a MOU with the Niger government that it would hand over the management of the centre within 2 years. The Archbishop contacted CAFOD in Niger last year to see if any support could be given to the centre. A budget was submitted and the major donor section agreed to help seek funding, but this was not successful. The budget then was much higher, due to the purchase of an ambulance.

In December 2014, the Archbishop requested the PM in Niger to request if CAFOD could help pay the nurse and the midwife. Because this does not fall within the country strategy (despite some link with nutrition work), the PM requested support from other budget sources to help the church continue providing health services to Ngoula inhabitants.
Contribution for CADEV Niger National Executive Secretariat running cost , 2018 For many years, Misereor has been funding CADEV Niger running costs. In 2011, they decided to reduce their funding to have other CI/CIDSE members working with CADEV also contribute.  This lead CADEV to think  for further support  from other partners to cover the executive secretariat running cost.  Supporting CADEV Niger running cost is a project developed by CADEV Niger for a duration of 3 years (01-01-2016 to 01-01-2018).  This project  received approval from many partners such as CAFOD, CRS, MISEREOR, Caritas Belgium and Catholic Relief. The project is in its third year.
CAFOD contributed for the fist year with  9 359 570 CFA. This  year,  the partner  identified  a budget gap  of  15 919 140 CFA  for implementation the project.  A request has been send to CAFOD for further support  as part of contribution  to cover the gap.  CAFOD will be engaged by providing a support of 7713.44 F CFA
CAFOD's contribution to the CI Sahel Working Group CAFOD has been part of the Caritas Internationalis Sahel Working Group since its creation in November 2006. The Working Group is promoting dialogue and consultation between Caritas agencies in the Sahel Region and members of the Caritas confederation engaged with the region, for the development of coordinated programmes. Regular attendees are CAFOD, CRS, Caritas International Belgium, Caritas Germany, Secours Catholique, Caritas Italy, CI secretariat, Caritas Luxembourg, Caritas organisations from the Sahel Region, etc. The last meeting was hosted by Caritas Spain in Madrid and this year’s meeting originally scheduled for December 2015 will be held in February 2016 in Praia (Cap Verde). Current steering committee members for this year are Caritas Italy, Caritas Senegal and Cape Verde. Since CAFOD has never worked with Caritas Senegal chair of the pilot committee we will be transferring our contribution to CADEV Niger who has accepted and they will make a transfer to Caritas Senegal
Raising public awareness on peaceful elections and participating in election observation in Niger Niger, like other African countries, experienced repetitive military coups and back-to-back rebellions by ethnic Tuaregs in the northern region of Agadez that undermined the process of accession to true democracy. The democratisation process began in 1992 when several political parties were created and allowed to operate freely on the territory of Niger. This process was interrupted by three repeated military coups d'état in 1996, 1999 and 2010 with negative consequences on the pace of economic development. 
Since 2011, Niger has returned to democracy with the election of Mr. Mahamadou Issoufou as President of the Republic of Niger. At the end of his first 5-year term in March 2015, new elections were held. He was re-elected for a new and final 5-year term until 2021.
This year, the Nigerien presidential election will be held on 27 December 2020 with a possible second round on 20 February 2021 to elect the president of the Republic of Niger. Legislative elections will be held at the same time as the first round. 
This presidential election coincides with the end of the mandate of the current President of the Republic, His Excellency MAHAMADOU Issoufou who is in his second and last mandate. In order to respect the Constitution and allow democratic alternation, he has decided not to touch the Constitution in order to give himself a third term, leaving his place to his successor, BAZOUM Mohamed.
With the invalidation of the presidential candidacy of the main opponent(Hama AMADOU), the tension around these elections only increases.
This project therefore aims to make the population aware of the need to preserve the gains of democracy, calm and peaceful elections, and a sense of the common good. The project will also train election observers who will actively participate in the observation of the electoral process.
The project is co-funded by Caritas Spain, CRS and CAFOD.
Improve population  access to hygiene and sanitation services in  Tchadoua Commune  Aguié Department Tchadoua commune is located 40 Km from Maradi  city, and 34 km from Aguie, the capital of the Department with an area of about 600 km2.It is limited to the North by the rural municipality of Sherkin Hausa (Mayahi), South by the rural community of Jiratawa and Dan Issa, West by the rural municipality of Saé Saboua, and on the East by the city of Aguié commune.
The present project for Hygiene and sanitation will be implemented in Tchadoua city which has a population of about 25 500 inhabitants (source: Tchadoua Hall.) with an area of about 7.5 km2.
The majority of the population in Tchadoua is illiterate and there is poor adherence to good hygiene and sanitation practices as a result of ignorance.  Many habits such as catting animals within household premises, storage of animal feeds are very common  and  the situation is no longer improving as this is not felt as a problem and there was no sensitisations actions conducted  for households  members  to change these behaviours.
Access to potable water is a major concern for the population of Tchadoua; there is a single mini AEP for Tchadoua city and the surrounding villages. This situation poses serious health problems, which predispose to the waterborne diseases, gastrointestinal infections. Data from Health information systems revealed that in 2016 the integrated health Centre (CSI type II) of Tchadoua recorded: 9 854 cases of malaria, 1 468 cases of dysentery, 1 447 cases of digestive  Tchadoua has insufficiency in term of latrines making open defecation more frequent.
CADEV Maradi requested the support of CAFOD to develop a project that will address insalubrity for prevention of illness and improvement of accessibility in potable water.   Awareness raising sessions will be conducted at community level to make community members aware of danger associated of poor hygiene and sanitation
Capacity building for malnutrition treatment and prevention Since 2005, Niger has been experiencing the prevalence of acute malnutrition beyond the WHO alert line which is of 10%. The malnutrition situation deteriorated in 2010 due to food crisis that hit the country. A national nutrition survey carried out in June 2010 revealed the level of malnutrition to be at 15% way beyond the alert level especially in Diffa, Maradi, Zinder and Tahoua. The prevalence of acute malnutrition is very high mong children between 6 to 59 months.

The current food situation which is shows a food deficit of 14% will but worsen the situation hitting more poor families and causing more acute malnutrition. It has to be said however that malnutrition in Niger is not solely caused by lack of food but also by other inherent cultural factors and poor hygiene. Due to this consideration, CADEV has planned to engage in both malnutrition treatment and prevention. It is important to merge the two approaches  so to come up with a better impact. Besides blanket feeding, CADEV will carry out sentisation on cooking, best baby and young child feeding habits, household hygiene, washing of hands, etc.

This project will be co funded by Caritas Germany (€100,000), Caritas Luxembourg (€100,000) and CAFOD (£25,000). The number of targeted beneficiaries is 13000 children between the ages of 0-5 years and 2000 pregnant and lactating mothers in Tchirozerine, Tera, Ouallam, Dakoro, Agadez, Zinder and Niamey.
Advocating for the protection of forest resources in Tillaberi region of Niger As stated by Pope Francis in Laudato Si' “the loss of forest and woodlands entails the loss of species which may constitute extremely important resources in the future, not only for food but also for curing disease and other uses”. To prevent this from happening in Tillabéri region, CADEV Niger sought to put into practice the knowledge gained from the advocacy training conducted by CAFOD in February 2016.  
This one year pilot project aims to contribute to the regeneration of forest resources by reducing the cutting of firewood and promoting the use of alternative energy sources by rural and urban households in Tillabéri region. This will be achieved through the implementation of a set of activities including the:
•	The dissemination of regulatory texts on tree cutting.
•	Conduct awareness raising meetings with local actors including targeted community leaders, civil society organisations and elected officials.
•	Support the creation and animation of the local committees for the protection of forest resources and the empowerment of local civil society organisations at municipal and departmental levels.
•	Realisation of radios broadcasts on deforestation and its consequences for communities.
•	Advocacy with promoters of cooking gas and the authorities for increased accessibility of households in using cooking gas, mineral coal and enhanced cook stoves.
•	Organization of training workshops on advocacy and negotiation techniques. 
•	Develop and lead a strategy of advocacy targeting public authorities.
•	Lay the groundwork for a lobby for the prohibition of illegal wood markets in the region and any other similar region. 
•	Conduct advocacy for environmental protection in the targeted area.
Helping people to access to lifesaving healthcare in Konni Commune Niger is the poorest country in the world. More than 60 percent of people are unable to meet their basic needs. Except for all problems related to drought and unstable rainfall, the population of Niger faces the major problem of access to quality health care. Less than half of people can access effective health services. Under a third of mothers receive quality care during their pregnancies.
A recent assessment by CAFOD, one of our local partners and the Ministry of Health revealed that over 75 percent of people have to travel to access healthcare, some from as far as 35 kilometres across the border in Nigeria. Only one in five pregnant women are able to consistently access healthcare before and after birth. This increases the risk of complications and infant and maternal mortality.
To address this problem in the commune of Konni, in the Tahoua region, this project aims to support CADEV Maradi to help Konni communities build and equip a community health facility and as result, facilitate access to quality health services.
This project will also provide a supply of essential medicines, train healthcare providers to manage issues related to pregnancy, childbirth and childhood illness, promote good health in communities to encourage prevention, care and participation, share knowledge about nutrition, the importance of healthcare during pregnancy and after birth, immunisations and how to feed infants and establish an early warning system to share health information and help the centre and the community work together effectively to prevent and respond to outbreaks of disease .
ENHANCE - Enhancing CADEV's capacity to respond to emergencies ENHANCE will support CADEV to effectively prepare and respond to humanitarian crises by:
•	Deepening the organisations’ commitment, vision and understanding of quality humanitarian work so that this is firmly rooted in their values and policies and followed by staff and volunteers throughout the structure.
•	Strengthening the core foundation of the organisation so that its systems and procedures are robust, flexible, accountable towards the beneficiaries and widely used by staff in an emergency.
•	Promoting a culture of learning and risk taking whereby innovations in humanitarian response and capacity strengthening can flourish.

ENHANCE is funded by Caritas Denmark through the humanitarian innovations funding as part of their FPA with the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. CAFOD signed a memorandum of understanding to enter into a 4 year strategic partnership on 29 January 2018. This partnership underpins the ENHANCE project.

CAFOD supported CADEV with humanitarian capacity development from 2014 to 2016. CADEV developed an Emergency Preparedness and Response plan, a Security Plan and participated in humanitarian leadership training.  However, progress was not made in the areas of humanitarian strategy, MEAL and communications and advocacy strategy. The 2016 evaluation findings highlighted the importance of further accompaniment for achieving change. CAFOD, Caritas Denmark, CRS and Secours Catholique - Caritas France (SCCF) have been exploring opportunities to collaborate on capacity strengthening with CADEV-Niger. A consolidated Capacity Strengthening Plan has been developed and each partner pledges to support a specific field/sector of the plan. In consultation with CADEV, CARITAS Denmark and other CIMOs in Country. CAFOD aims to support CADEV to improve its Humanitarian capacity through four primary themes:
1. Mobilization and Management of Community Volunteers for humanitarian early warning
2. Emergency Preparedness
3. Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
4. Humanitarian Advocacy and Communication
Improving access to water and Sanitation in Kieche and Baboursaye This intervention builds on CADEV’s initial experience in the village of Baboursaye and its surrounding homesteads focusing on improved access to water and Hygiene promotion. More specifically, the project aims to: 
1.	Build one borehole in the village of Baboursaye and two rope pumps in two major hamlets of Baboursaye to reduce time spent collecting water and provide additional water resources for Human consumption, drinking by animals and watering of crops.
2.	Train and equip community water point management committee members to maintain hygiene around water points and promote safe handling of water to reduce contamination throughout the ‘key moments’ of the water handling (Collection, treatment, storage and distribution/consumption)
3.	Support community driven sanitation and hygiene promotion initiatives including awareness raising and behaviour change communication activities
4.	Train and equip at least 50 women in the village of Baboursaye to practice irrigated small gardening so that they become capable of producing vegetables throughout the year (Including during the lean season) for the consumption of their household and sale of any supplementary production.
Integrated food security and bio-composting in the urban-rural communities of Goube & Harobanda The village of Harobanda is situated in the Southern flank of the Niger river some 30 Kms from Niamey. Amid severe and dramatic changes to climate, receding water levels and clogging of Niger River bed by advancing sand from the Sahara Desert, the livelihoods of this essentially fishing community has been disturbed and their risk to moderate and severe food insecurity increased.

Similarly, in the village of Goube, CAFOD has supported a livelihoods project promoting local gardening for the production of vegetables; though this initial project has yielded some positive outcomes, the lack of diversification of food (animal protein) means that the nutritional state of the community remains relatively low.
This integrated project aims to address the situation in these two communities through a dual-approach design. At first in intends to support an economic reconversion in Harobanda, accompanying communities to diversify their livelihoods activities from fishing to agriculture and small livestock holding. Secondly, the project aims to support the community of Goube to start small livestock holding activities in order to improve the quality of their food in the short term and their economic posture in the long term, reducing the impel to move away from their village in quest for food
Building resilience for communities in Niger -BRACED-SUR1M-DRR Component This project aims to increase the level of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and strenghen the national early warning systems (EWS) in Niger.

The Niger government continues to struggle to respond to crises because it lacks capacity in DRR and has weak decentralized systems that are unable to share critical emergency information in a timely manner. The national EWS, which is critical to Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), does not use data collected by most communities. Village early warning groups (EWGs) are only present in 20% of villages in Niger. 
While Niger has signed the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) and adopted climate action plans and decentralization policies, local capacity is low, reducing service delivery and citizen participation, particularly of women. Extension services lack funds for outreach in critical areas like natural resource management (NRM), crop production, livestock, and health/nutrition, weakening adoption of nutritional and climate adaptation practices. 

Through this project, communities will be trained on how to identify different disasters, analyse the risks and identify solutions on how to manage, reduce and mitigate them. Communities will also be helped to set early warning systems and committees for sharing disaster information.
Support to CADEV for the evaluation of the strategic plan CARITAS-DEVELOPPEMENT NIGER (CADEV-Niger), a long-term partner of CAFOD, is a Catholic Church organisation and member of the Caritas Internationalis network that contributes to human development efforts to improve the living conditions of the poorest people.

In order to make these interventions effective in its various fields of action, CADEV Niger develops and implements five-year strategic plans. The current plan (2017-2021) was developed in January 2017.
This plan had the following main objectives:
- The determination of the strategic axes for CADEV Niger
- The determination of the areas of intervention
- The formulation of strategic and intermediate results
- The formulation of outputs
In order to evaluate the implementation of the major axes of this strategic plan 2017-2021, CADEV NIGER proposes to assess it after five years of implementation. This evaluation is also part of the recommendations of the organisational and financial diagnosis of the organisation, which was recently carried out with the aim of establishing the elements that allow a better understanding of the orientations of CADEV contained in its strategic plan.
This will involve examining the results of the execution of the Strategic Plan (SP) according to its axes and implementation strategies. 

This project therefore aims to support this evaluation exercise of the strategic plan in order to allow CADEV to obtain an objective appreciation of its implementation and to draw lessons to prepare the next strategic plan.