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Response to the meningitis epidemic The project's aim is to vaccinate children receiving malnutrition treatment in CADEV run nutrition centres, in Niger.

Niger is a Sahelian country located on the tropical belt, suffering from prone to highly endemic meningitis outbreaks, especially during the dry season. In February this year the epidemic broke out and reached its climax in April-May killing many people in 7 regions of Niger. According to the epidemics surveillance department of the ministry of health as many as 7035 people were affected leaving 458 deaths. 

The government appealed to its partners including INGOs, to help with the vaccine as they do not have enough to cover the needs of the population. CADEV Niger's project, is attached to nutrition centres where they provide nutritional services. 

The project will target children between 2 to 5 years old, malnourished and admitted to CADEV nutritional centres. The vaccination will help prevent occurrences of the disease in the nutrition centres, as many children visit them and, making this endemic very devastating. The vaccine will protect the children for the next 3 years. CADEV Niger will purchase vaccines from the laboratories approved by the government and give them to health centres who will carry out the vaccination.
Contribution to Share the Journey Reflections and events This micro-project is a contribution to the Share the Journey campaign organized by CADEV to reflect on Migration with key stakeholders including CARITAS Internationalis Member Organizations, Niger government Officials, NGOs and UN organizations, Faith and Non-Faith Leaders, Community Leaders and representatives of people in the situation of mobility in Niger.
CADEV Assistance to Food Insecure Communities in Niger (part of the EA 07/2010 NIGER) CAFOD is making a grant from the GEB for GBP 32,749 to our partner CADEV as part of the CI EA 07/2010 Niger appeal. The total budget of the CADEV Food Insecurity EA is 2,879,266 euro for 8 months. CAFOD’s contribution is going towards the nutritional sector of the project. The two other main sectors are food distribution and capacity building. CADEV is working in conjunction with CRS Niger in delivering this project. 246,014 beneficiaries will be reached through food distribution, seed distribution and cash-for-work activities. A further 17,000 beneficiaries will receive supplementary feeding (comprising 2,000 pregnant/lactating women and 15,000 children). The main target areas are the regions of Agadez, Dosso, Maradi, Niamey, Tahoua, Tillabéry and Zinder. The main activities of the overall project are blanket feeding, cash-for-work, provision of drought resistant seeds, supplementary feeding for women and children, sensitization in communicating behaviour change, and training in standards for running centres for nutritional recovery.
Emergency assistance to displaced families victims of the armed conflict in Mali An armed conflict between the regular forces and the rebels belonging to the Movement for the Liberation of AZAWAD (MNLA) erupted in January 2012 when the rebels attacked villages and small towns in northern Mali. The movement is in majority made up of Tuareg fighters. This situation worsened the security situation which forced the local population to flee for safety in neighbouring countries including Niger. In Niger alone, the total number of Malian refugees has reached over 20,000 people. Most of these people arrived with nothing with them because their first priority was their safety and that is why they crossed the border. In February 2012, CADEV/CAFOD carried a joint needs assessment in Sinégodar and Mangaizé where they met with the refugees/displaced the host communities and the local administration. The displaced were living in very inhuman conditions without any proper shelter, they had no cooking pots, no access to safe and drinking water, no food, poor hygiene conditions as there were no latrines, etc. The same situation was also found in other areas where CADEV has carried another assessment. Reports from other NGOs say the same thing. The Malian crisis is happening at the time when Niger is experiencing food insecurity especially in the regions where the displaced have found refuge. Their presence will but worsen the situation as the host population doesn’t have enough to eat themselves.

Faced with this situation, the Government of Niger was the first to provide a food response by sending 100 tons of cereals in Mangaizé and Sinégodar. Other NGOs such as the ICRC and Oxfam have provided water and MSF Belgium catered for refugees’ health needs.

Faced with this situation, CADEV who has been working in the region cannot remain indifferent that is why CADEV is planning to provide Non food items, food and access to health care to the refugees. Needs of these people are overwhelming and no single actor is able to cover everything and especially now that most actors are also preparing to respond to the looming food crisis. CADEV Niger has targeted 2000 families for this project which aims to relieve the suffering of the refugees families victims of the armed conflicts in North Mali
EA 10-14: Support to populations victims of food insecurity in Niger Situated in the heart of Sahel region, Niger agro-pastoral production is solely depended on rainfall. The country is faced with food crisis due to droughts, pests attacks, floods and very often also from high prices of commonly consumed cereals such as sorghum, millet, maize and rice. All these crisis contribute to the fragility and weakening of the resilience of the people.
The current crisis is caused by the deficit caused by a relatively poor harvest in 2013. The ministry of agriculture estimated a food deficit of 343,566 tons. More 4,648 villages with an estimated population of 4,294,986 people (23% of the total population) have been declared very vulnerable. It is worth to note that a total of 7,575,900 are classified at risk of food insecurity. GAM malnutrition is currently standing at 13,3% higher than the critical level according to WHO standards but below the emergency level of 15%. On top of this situation, the presence of refugees from Mali and displaced people from Nigeria has but put more pressure on food security situation. 
The Niger government came up with a response plan and invited humanitarian actors to contribute in order to bring assistance to the needy.
CADEV Niger being one of the actors has responded favourably to the government's appeal by submitting this project to CI member organisations. Through the project CADEV hopes to provide food and seeds to the needy, provide food rations to families with malnourished children, etc. A total of 20,700 households will benefit from the activities of the project.
Due to the delay in submission of this project to CI by CADEV Niger and the difficulties currently experienced by CADEV Niger in raising money for all the activities of the project, a number of activities will but be dropped such as FFW, CFW, distribution of seeds because these were to happen no later than end of June 2014. CAFOD is therefore going to earmark its contribution to food distributions and food support to families with malnourished children, pregnant and lactating mothers.
Support to food needs of families of malnourished children, pregnant and lactating mothers This small projet is to respond to food needs of families of malnourished children, pregnant and lactating mothers who are currently undergoing malnutritition treatment in CADEV run nutrition centres. CADEV has an ongoing malnutrition prevention and treatment project funded by Caritas Germany, Caritas Luxembourg and CAFOD. Unfortunately due to limited funds and to the fact that CADEV normally gets nutrients from the WFP, nutrients and discharge rations were not budgted for except for 7T of rice which were used up after one month. Since december 2011, the WFP seems to have some problems in their pipeline and can't curtrently provide this crucial support in terms of discharge rations and support food needs of families of malnourished children, pregnant and lactating mothers. The lack of food support to these families has currently led to high incidences of drop outs as families have to go and look for food to feed the rest of families members instead of going for treatment.  The situation has also affected the level cure as some already cured children have fallen back into malnutrition as families have been sharing the food meant for the malnourished children.

To save the situation CADEV has contacted CAFOD to request financial support to be able to urgently provide this much needed assistance to provide food assistance to 500 families of malnourished children, pregnant and lactating mothers in order to save lives but also to increase the impact of the progarmme.
Formation des Formateurs en GCRRC (TOT-CMDRR)-SUR1M (BRACED) development phase Following the DFID BRACED appeal, CAFOD, CRS and other Caritas in the Sahel region submitted a concept note to DFID which has been successful. CRS is the lead agency for the consortium while CAFOD will be leading on nutrition with CADEV Niger as the implementing agency. The project submitted by the consortium is known as Scaling up resilience for one million in Sahel (SUR1M). After the approval of the concept note by DFID, the agencies have 6 months to develop the proposal and to test a few activities. 
As a lead in nutrition for the SUR1M project, CAFOD and CADEV Niger have planned to carry out a training of trainers on CMDRR with a nutrition lens. The training is destined to CADEV Niger staff members and also a number of community members who will in turn train other community members during the main project’s implementation.
The objectives of the training are: • Train mixed stakeholder facilitators (CSO staff, community leaders and local government) in basic participatory DRR methods.• Implement a community based DRR meeting to test some of the participatory assessment and planning activities.• Identify risk reduction activities and needs for the full proposal.• Identify good practice for a scaled community based DRR model with local government and CSO capacity building and integrated planning at scale.
Project for support to community resilience through the promotion of gardening and income generation Building community resilience through the promotion of gardening and income generation will increase the adaptive capacity of communities living in Zarmaganda located in Tillabéry region of Niger. Once the food basket of western Niger, today the region is characterized by low and poorly distributed rainfall leading to recurrent droughts and a gradual decline in productivity (300kg/ha for the millet the main food staple of the communities). Demographic pressure on the meagre resources makes the food security situation very difficult. The availability of food to sustain the basic needs of the population became precarious driven by alternating good and bad years of harvest and drought periods made unpredictable by the effects of climate change. Improving this precarious food insecurity while reducing poverty in these communities require actions to diversify income generating activities.  The introduction and strengthening of market gardening is a promising high-potential ad-value activity which can contribute to improve food security and generate additional income for the targeted communities.

This pilot project of six months is designed to develop an integrated system for strengthening community resilience through the combination of activities including the introduction of a profitable agricultural system by remote controlled irrigation, market gardening, practical training, literacy and poultry.
Support to vulnerable households affected by floods in Niger 2020 Niger is facing a current context of climate change in the Sahelian region. Its annual rainfall, between 100 and 800 mm, is characterized by significant interannual and spatial variability with consequent droughts and/or floods. These harsh climatic conditions affect agro-silvo-pastoral production and the socio-economic conditions of the populations. Floods are observed during the rainy period between June and September of almost every year.
Some of the factors that contribute to these floods are the following:
•	pressure urban demographic growth: migration of the rural poor to the cities, fleeing the misery of their land.
•	Uncontrolled occupation of areas potentially exposed to flood risks, 
•	Failure of the city's sewerage network,
•	changes in land use resulting in altered surface conditions and increased runoff, etc.

As of October 1, 549,049 people have been affected by the floods following the heavy rainfall recorded since July in the eight regions of the country, according to estimates by the Ministry of Humanitarian Action and Disaster Management. This exceeds the Flood Contingency Plan's forecast of 250,000 people likely to be affected by floods this year when heavy rainfall is expected, according to the national meteorological services.
To date, 69 people have died. The balance sheet also shows more than 39,000 houses damaged ; 67 classrooms, 36 mosques and one health facility have collapsed, more than 15,000 hectares of farmland destroyed  destroyed and more than more than 15,000 head of cattle killed.
This project therefore aims to provide food and non-food items to vulnerable households affected by these floods. Covid-19 fighting activities will also be implemented in the framework of this project to limit the spread of the virus between the affected populations.
Building the resilience of Agro-Pastoral communities in the rural commune of Kalfou (Tahoua Region) The commune of Kalfou in Tahoua Region is affected by soil degradation as result of changing climate and advancing desert. As result, increasingly women and men in rural areas have difficulties producing the food they need to be able to live in dignity. Food insecurity is therefore high in the area and is the root cause of reccurent crises and conflicts.
This project aims to support small producers to improve their livelihoods by promoting innovative production techniques (bio-composting, bio-pesticides, rehabilitation of degraded agricultural lands, etc) on one hand, building their marketing skills and strengthening their bargaining power. The project will also support a solar-powered autonomous agriculture unit that improves local capacity to trasport, transform and store produces. Women will be specifically targeted as beneficiaries of this project to improve their socio-economic situation.
When completed this project will have supported 2,000 households directl while an additional 5,000 will benefit indirectly as the new skills and techniques promotedby the project spread in the community
Contribution to the Sahel Working Group Annual Workshop In order to shape a common approach to priorities and needs affecting their common context, CIMOs present in the Sahel meet annually to discuss trends and shape a coordinated strategy. CAFOD has been one of the key contributors to this important forum where the context is analysed from the perspective of different CARITAS Agencies in the region and experiences and learning shared.
This project aims to bring CAFOD contribution to the NIGER delegation's overall contribution towards the workshop.
SADI TRAINING FOR PARTNERS IN NIGER THIS PROJECT IS TO TRAIN 19 PARTNERS STAFF AND 6 CAFOD STAFF ON SADI PROGRAMMING FRAMEWORK.
Implementation of Zaman tare activities for December 2019 and January 2020 CAFOD has obtained funding from the European Union for the implementation of a programme to promote tolerance, known as "ZAMAN TARE". This programme aims to strengthen multiculturalism and religious tolerance in Niger through various initiatives. One of these initiatives is to: Organize training with government actors on legal approaches to cultural and religious pluralism with the support of the National Commission on Human Rights in Niger and also organize country-level meetings of the coordination team.
Scholarship for Zaman Tare research support year one and two CAFOD has obtained funding from the European Union for the implementation of a program promoting tolerance, known as ‘ZAMAN TARE’. This programme aims to strengthen multiculturalism and religious tolerance in Niger, through various initiatives. One such initiative is to: Support Master's students to conduct research on cultural and religious pluralism in Niger. 
As part of this project, CAFOD is pleased to announce the availability of 30 research support grants for the 2018/2019 and 2019/2020 academic year. These scholarships are intended for master's students and aim to contribute to the understanding of the factors that allow religious tolerance and multiculturalism as well as those that hinder them with a view to developing policies that can strengthen multiculturalism and tolerance in Niger.
Supporting Caritas-development-Niger in the Covid-19 response With the progressive increase of Covid-19 cases since the first case was recorded on 29 March 2020 in Niger, the situation is becoming increasingly worrying because Niger is one of the countries with the weakest health system to cope with this pandemic. In addition to this, there are other factors that make the situation more and more worrying and increase the vulnerability of the population in the face of this pandemic and make the response very complex and the pandemic difficult to manage. Among these factors we can mention: difficult access to water due to the dry season, transhumance movements that favour the spread of the pandemic, the seasonal meningitis that Niger often experiences during this period, the agricultural lean season which increases food insecurity and the low level of knowledge on prevention measures of the population. 
As of 17 April 2020 Niger has registered a total of 627 confirmed cases of Covid-19 of which 110 are warned and 18 are died.
In order to support the efforts and initiatives of prevention and response put in place by the government, the intervention of all actors is very important to face this worrying public health problem. It is in this logic that this project proposal is submitted to enable CADEV-Niger to contribute to the activities planned by the Covid-19 response and coordination committee set up by the government of Niger.   

In line with the goals of our Country Strategy Paper which mandates CAFOD to intervene in emergency situations in support of our partner depending on the availability of resources, this project therefore aims to support our long-term partner CADEV-Niger which has agreed to represent the Caritas country forum in the response to Covid-19.

This project will focus mainly on activities to sensitize the population on measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19 from the 36 health areas where the 36 health centres run by the Catholic Church are located. All activities are planned and will be implemented according to the national response plan.
Action for cultural and religious pluralism in Niger and Nigeria Niger has been seen for many years as an example of a country with peaceful coexistence among religious groups  and People with different ethnic background and religious affiliation are interacting together without discrimination.
Nowadays, this situation has been changing  and  becoming more critical  and the country is facing ethnocentrism, political tension. In addition, the Sahel region is marked by the presence of terrorist that are killing peaceful citizen on behalf of religion (Diffa in the east sharing border  with Maiduguri in Nigeria and Tillabery sharing border with Burkina Faso and Mali). In 2015, as a result of caricature of Prophet Mohamed (PUH) by Charlie Hebdo magazine in France, Muslims from many countries organised demonstrations against Charlie Hebdo magazine.  In Niger this happened in many regions and leave the population with in desperate situation, fear and risk  for future of violence. 
CAFOD and CADEV Niger and CAN (Catholic Agency in Nigeria)  collaborated and inspired by the experience of past projects on the consolidation of peace, particularly in period pre and post-election to propose action that engages several key players in the religious, academic sectors, socio-cultural, society civil society, communities, media and holders of public power. This project is funded by EU and will contribute in raising awareness among community members on peaceful coexistence, researching and advocating at the authority level to for improve legislation that will improve the conflict prevention and handling cases appropriately.
Project to support community resilience through the promotion of gardening and income generation The persistence of the food crisis in Niger invites rural people to keep in mind that it is urgent for them to find new methods of food production that should be environmentally sound, economically viable and socially acceptable for them.
This project is designed to support the efforts of the community of Koirazeno living in the rural municipality of Simiri in achieving food security and resilience. Like other communities of Zarmaganda in Niger, Once the food basket of western Niger, Koirazeno is today experiencing low and poorly distributed rainfall leading to recurrent droughts and a gradual decline in food productivity. The availability of food to sustain the basic needs of the population became precarious driven by alternating good and bad years of harvest and drought periods made unpredictable by the effects of climate change. Improving this precarious food insecurity while reducing poverty in these communities require actions to diversify income generating activities.
After the six months Pilot project NIG064, the implementation partner, AGDL is targeting the community of Koirazeno to duplicate the tangible outcomes of its experience in the field profitable agricultural system by remote controlled irrigation, market gardening, practical training, literacy and poultry.
Research on interreligious and intercultural tolerance in Niger Amongst the numerous actions listed under the EC  project is to conduct an in-depth and comprehensive research.  Firstly, the research will be designed to identify the barriers, challenges and enablers of cultural and religious pluralism in the target regions and plausible underlying mechanisms. Secondly, the quantitative and qualitative data collected will serve as a baseline for the action. The research will inform the design of project activities, including the selection of core themes which will be disseminated throughout the action. It will provide the missing empirical evidence to design advocacy activities including identifying influential spaces for CSOs and areas of advocacy with public duty bearers.