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Support to people living with disabilities impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic in Niger Having registered its first case on March 29, 2020, Niger has accumulated by January 30, 2021, 4433 positive cases out of 72624 tests performed. Out of the 4433 positive cases, 3583 cases have been declared cured, 153 people have died and 697 active cases are being treated.
This pandemic context aggravates an already unstable and poor health situation characterised by persistent seasonal epidemics (meningitis, measles), a high mortality rate (Maternal mortality rate: 509 per 100,000 live births, Deaths under five: 85 per 1,000 live births) against the backdrop of a very weak health system and factors that increase the vulnerability of the population or facilitate the spread of the virus (drought, food insecurity, transhumance, difficulty of access to water).
The negative impact of this pandemic is not only health-related, but also economic, especially in a country where human development indicators are very low, making Niger one of the poorest countries in the world, chronically affecting more than a quarter of the population (26.8%). 
This impact is much more pronounced among the disabled population than among the rest of the population. People with disabilities are particularly disadvantaged by the socio-economic consequences of COVID-19 and the measures taken to control the pandemic. 
The risk of contracting COVID-19 is higher among people with disabilities and the risk of medical complications and death related to COVID-19 is higher among people with disabilities.
With an estimated population of 22.8 million, Niger is one of the countries with one of the highest natural population growth rates in the world (3.9% per year)1 and the disabled population is estimated at 4.2% (2.11% women and 2.06% men) .

This project therefore aims to support people with disabilities to reduce the considerable economic and health impact that this pandemic has on their daily lives by providing them with food to meet their immediate needs but also by supporting their income-generating activities and ensuring the strengthening of their capacities or by accompanying them in learning the profession in order to strengthen their long-term resilience.
This project will support people with disabilities to become stakeholders in the prevention of Covid-19 by raising their awareness of the barriers against Covid-19, by training and supporting women with disabilities in the sewing of masks in line with government recommendations. Hand washing kits adapted to people with disabilities as well as other pandemic prevention equipment and products will be distributed to the beneficiaries (disinfectant gels).
Emergency assistance to returning migrants following crisis in Libya In February 2011, the population of several cities in Libya and especially in Benghazi went on streets to air out their unhappiness with regards to the economic situation. The peaceful demonstrations were counter attacked with severe atrocity and brutal reaction from Muamar Khaddafi’s forces which ended up causing a lot of insecurity and hence the massive movement of Nigeriens and other sub-Saharan citizens into Niger. For most sub-Saharan Africans fleeing through Niger was a better option. Most of these fleeing people arrived in Niger through Madama-Dirkou-Agadez axis and also through the Asamaka-Arlit-Agadez axis. Most if not all of them arrived with nothing with them as they had to abandon everything they had because their first priority was their safety. As the insecurity continued, the situation became even more unbearable for the sub Saharans who for a very long time were thought to be mercenaries fighting for Khadaffi. This situation exacerbated insecurity around them and forced them to flee.
These people arrive with nothing and experience a lot of problems such as lack of food, sicknesses, harshness of the climate, water, etc. In Dirkou which is considered as a transit place, most of the returnees (both Nigeriens and other nationalities) are taken care of by IOM and MSF but in AGADEZ there aren’t NGOs responding to migrants’ needs. Very recently the provincial government (Governor) has identified a site where those arriving can be received and are given some assistance. According to the report from a recent CADEV visit in Agadez the conditions of the returnees are appalling and the site provided for by the government doesn’t meet the minimum conditions.
To respond to the needs of the returnees, CADEV Niger decided to launch an EA through the CI network in order to meet the needs of 5000 people out if the 60000 originally expected. CADEV has targeted AGADEZ which is the last point where migrants will arrive before heading to their different home towns. CADEV Niger will be technically supported by CAFOD and CRS in providing this assistance made up of the provision of Non Food Items, transport and some assistance to non Nigeriens.
Regional emergency response and capacity building project for C. Mali, Niger, Burkina and Senegal This is an emergency appeal project (EA38/2012) aimed at building the operational capacity of 4 Caritas organisations in Sahel in order to be prepared to offer effective response to the Mali crisis. The 4 countries concerned by this project are Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and Senegal. The three countries have all received refugees from Mali since last year and this year too. Caritas Mali has also been responding to emergency needs of the internally displaced people within the Malian territory.

Besides capacity building, the project will also provide emergency response to respond to the needs of the people (both internally displaced and refugees) affected by the conflict in Mali. The project has 3 objectives namely to provide emergency assistance to IDPs and refugees (namely food, Non food items, medical), to improve technical competencies of Caritas organisations in the Sahel region; and to ensure a better coordination on the response of the Mali crisis through a better flow and dissemination of information. The project will train Caritas staff at regional, national and diocesan levels. 

In Mali and Niger for which CAFOD will earmark its support, 5,044 households will receive food assistance for 3 months, 2,460 households will receive kitchen sets and 2,000 people will benefit from improved access to medical services (through provision of health kits to health centres).
Policy of participation of Niger's political authorities in events Within the framework of the project for cultural and religious pluralism in Niger and Nigeria called Zaman Taré co-financed by the European Union and CAFOD, an official launch has been planned in Niger with the participation of Cafod Londre and Cafod Nigeria. This project, which is planned for a period of four years, requires significant support from local authorities at the highest level because of the project's highly sensitive theme and the state's strong control over religious and coexistence issues. Despite the advocacy work done with government and religious authorities and their adherence to the project, the official launch was subject to the payment of perdiems.

The perdiem policy is instituted by Decree No. 2007-060/PRN/ME/F of 21 March 2007. According to this decree, perdiem is paid for travel outside the national territory, but in practice, the authorities do not even travel internally without perdiem, as evidenced by the inter-office memorandum of the United Nations System Coordination Office in Niger dated 13 December 2018. Also to demonstrate the recurrence of the issue, the Council of Ministers on 15 February 2019 adopted a bill on the issue of perdiems for the travel of officials.
To guarantee visibility, standing and to place the project at a national and qualitative level, the presence of several dignitaries was necessary.
Improving access to quality health and nutrition services in the commune of Guéchémé The project aims to improve the quality of health and nutrition care, especially for children under 5 years of age, pregnant and lactating women in the commune of Guéchémé in the Tchibiri health district, Dosso region, by ensuring the supply of essential medicines, strengthening the capacities of health providers with training in child and maternal care and equipping health centres with delivery beds and safe delivery kits as needed.
Given the very important role that community health workers play in prevention and health care by sensitizing community members to the use of services in health facilities, this project will therefore build their capacity through training on behaviour change and community mobilization techniques, essential family practices, nutritional screening protocol and integrated disease surveillance and response.
The project will cover 4 integrated health centres (CSI of Fadama, Lido, Guéchémé and Makorwa).
Emergency support to preventive internally displaced and host community The humanitarian situation in Diffa (South East Niger) has been worsening each time there was an attack by Boko Haram for several months now. Intensified military offensives from the regional multinational force (Lake Chad Basin countries) have forced the gunmen to retreat to the border areas between Niger and Nigeria where they attack villages that have little or no military presence (OCHA, May 2016). Following conflicts or fear of conflicts, the Diffa region in South-eastern Niger has witnessed an influx of an estimated 94,000 IDPs (preventive displacement) and 97,000 refugees from villages near the border (December 2015). The state of emergency in Diffa has been extended for 3 months (until August).

One of Boko Haram's brutal and deadliest attacks happened over a week ago when Bosso area of Diffa was attacked. The assailants attacked a military camp and made away with a lot of munitions after killing several soldiers and injuring many of them. Caught by panic all the inhabitants of Bosso area left their homes in search of safety and security. According to OCHA reports as many as 50,000 people have been rendered homeless and have become internally displaced people and are in need of immediate assistance.

CADEV already supported 2,000 households and 200 young persons in 2015 in a similar project (EA 14/2015 – 644,000 EUR) and wishes to consolidate and extend its support to the affected people and communities. CAFOD also made a contribution to this project alongside other sister agencies.

CADEV staff carried out a needs assessment in February 2016 and the needs have not changed at all since then and the fact that there are more displacement increases even the need for assistance. The government also renewed the state of emergency in the entire Diffa region and this makes it difficult for the people to earn a living. This situation needs support from CAFOD to prevent the humanitarian situation from worsening any further.

Main activities of this project are:
-	Unconditional cash transfer to 2,000 households for 4 months to cover their food needs;
-	Distribution of mosquito nets and hygiene kits including Aquatabs for 2,000 households;
-	Targeted distribution of other NFIs: cooking kits for 1,000 HH, tarpaulins for 300 HH;
-	Income Generating Activities (IGA) for 300 women.
-	Trainings on conflict management, Islamo-Christian dialogue for 500 young individuals;
-	Cash for Work (CFW) to strengthen community activities; 
-	Material for animation centres for children.
Scaling-up Resilence to Climate extremes in the Niger River Basin -BRACED--SUR1M-Nutrition Component This project aims to prevent malnutrition in all its forms in the Tillabery region, Niger.

Niger is a country in West Africa located on the Sahelian strip, it is subject to several risks which have caused global food crises cycles, hence the increase of malnutrition in the population. The most affected are children aged 0-5 years, and pregnant and lactating women. In 2014 the prevalence of global malnutrition in Niger is 14.8% far exceeding the critical threshold WHO. 

The project aims will be achieved, with CADEV, by implementing sensitisation on the prevention of malnutrition and essential family practices, mass screening campaigns and the use of fortified foods based on local recipes. CADEV has a long experience in malnutrition because of its long standing experience in assisting malnourished people in Niger since the 2005 food crisis.
Capacity building plan for solidarity committees Caritas Niger 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. CADEV is a privileged partner of CAFOD in Niger and has benefited from CAFOD's extensive support in terms of organisational and human capacity building in accordance with CAFOD Niger's country strategic plan and our organisation's global policy.
During the year 2021, CADEV undertook an organisational diagnosis as well as the evaluation of its strategic plan process which received the support of CAFOD. The management of the organisation also underwent a profound change with the replacement of the National Executive Secretary and the management of the Niamey Diocesan office.  
The new management of the Niamey office, following its assumption of office and an analysis of the mode of operation, plans to increase the involvement of church volunteers in the implementation of services to the most needy as recommended by the CADEV texts.
The involvement of volunteers according to the new vision will allow for a better understanding of the needs of the communities. The volunteers are organised in solidarity committees and are drawn from the communities.
In order to bring volunteers back to the centre of CADEV's action, it is necessary to
- Assess the current level of organisation of the DSCs by parish.
- Evaluate the capacity of the DSCs to communicate on community issues.
- Evaluate the capacity to write project proposals.
- To assess the knowledge of security of the DSCs.
- Evaluate DSCs' knowledge of protection, inclusion and accessibility.
Once these assessments have been completed, capacity building will be provided in order to put DSCs at the heart of the interventions.
Capacity building of partners on new tax reforms Niger, through its 2020 Finance Law, which is reinforced by the 2021 Finance Law, has undergone important tax reforms to enable the government to improve the mobilization of tax resources, notably through the control of VAT (Value Added Tax) invoicing by using new information technology. 
The Finance Law introduced, for example, the obligation for any taxable company/organization that delivers goods or provides services for the needs of a third party who is also a taxable person or an ordinary consumer, to issue a certified invoice to the latter.

In order to support partners in understanding and complying with these new tax reforms instituted by the government, CAFOD supports this learning process through training on the new finance law.
 This training will enable the finance and administration officers of partner organizations to acquire the necessary knowledge and tools to update themselves on the new tax reforms and to prevent any prejudice arising from the non-application of new government measures.
The objectives of this training are:
- The mastery of tax dispositions (taxes and duties) in force in Niger in relation with the sector of activity
- The mastery of the fields of application, the bases, the mode of liquidation and recovery
- The knowledge and mastery of the application of the tools that the DGI (General Directorate of Taxes) puts at the disposal of taxpayers
- The presentation of a synoptic table of taxes and duties of the nomenclature of documents and evidentiary documents in tax matters
- Capacity building of the participant on the process and documentation of tax exemption
- Provision of an updated document on tax regulations in Niger
Emergency relief for displaced Nigerian households and their hosted population in Diffa (Niger) Diffa, one of the poorest regions of Niger, has been experiencing a deficit of food production for the past three years. This situation of food insecurity worsened since 2012 by the arrival of displaced populations from Nigeria fleeing attacks by the Boko Haram group. This year more than 100,000 displaced persons, the equivalent of 1/5 of Diffa’s population, have been identified.

In addition, the security measures taken by the Government of Niger including the State of emergency, the prohibition to ride on a motorcycle and attend the banks of the Komadougou Yobe River have had a lasting negative impact on the socio-economic activities in the region. Especially since the surroundings of this River is where the population derives the bulk of its revenues from, through fishing and the production of green pepper. Another source of income compromised is the border trade. People are no longer able to buy and sell their products on Nigeria’s market.

CADEV-Niger, faithful to its mission of supporting vulnerable populations has agreed on the need to demonstrate the Catholic Church’s solidarity to the displaced persons and the host populations.

This project introduced by Caritas Niger has dual objectives. On the one hand it aims to help improving the living conditions of the displaced population, and on the other hand to help the host populations mitigate the impact of the 2014 food deficit.
Care and prevention of malnutrition in the nutritional  centres managed by Niger CADEV Niger The prevalence of acute malnutrition in Niger is consistently above the 10% warning level, and at least one area is always above the emergency level during lean periods. According to a Government and National Statistics survey report ("Nutrition and Child Survival") conducted in June/July 2012, the national rate of acute malnutrition among children aged 6-59 months was 14.8%, with global acute malnutrition rates above 15% (emergency level) in the four regions of Diffa, Zinder, Maradi and Tillabéry. In the other 4 regions, acute malnutrition is above the alert level.
 
Since 2005, chronic malnutrition has consistently affected over 40% of all children under five years old. Children, particularly boys, aged 6-23 months are most affected by acute malnutrition, with a prevalence of 20.2%.  It is the result of several factors, including food insecurity and childhood diseases. All forms of micro nutrient deficiencies, including iodine, iron, vitamin A and zinc, are public health concerns. It is therefore imperative that CADEV-Niger continues to provide care for children and pregnant/lactating women suffering from malnutrition, while also implementing strategies to prevent malnutrition.

Given its experience in the field, CADEV-Niger proposes the following strategies to improve nutritional status in the country:

• Management of moderate acute malnutrition cases in the different therapeutic feeding centres (‘Centres de Recuperation Nutritionnelle’ - CRN) in conformance with national protocols on malnutrition;
• Nutritional and psychosocial support for children treated in the CRNs, in accordance with national protocol;
• Education sessions on the use of local products carried out at community level and also in the CRNs by field officers and community volunteers.

It is important to engage a preventative approach in the management of malnutrition and to strengthen the structures of the Ministry of Health. Therefore, as well as blanket feeding, large-scale interventions are required to reduce the number of children becoming malnourished.  This is achieved through cooking demonstrations and promotion of appropriate practices for infant and child feeding.  These practices include: exclusive breast-feeding and appropriate weaning, vaccination of children, use of treated mosquito nets, vitamin A supplementation, deworming, consumption of iodized salt, hand washing, treatment of diarrhoea with ORS.
Emergency assistance to populations affected by floods in Niamey and Zinder Regions, Niger CAFOD is making a grant from the GEB for Euros 34,982 to our partner CADEV as part of the response to the floods that have devastated many parts of Niger in August 2010. 
Heavy rains throughout the month of August have caused flooding in many localities of Niger, particularly in the Niamey, Tillaberi, Dosso, Tahoua and Zinder regions.
The flooding has aggravated the countrywide food crisis, in which nearly half of Niger's 15.2 million people are experiencing hunger.
The flooding has further destabilized the production system as many families lost productive equipment or had to sell goods in order to meet their immediate needs. Others have seen their field washed away and lost crops due to be harvested in October.
CADEV will focus on emergency distributions of food and mosquito nets to 805 affected families in Niamey and Zinder regions, covering the needs of 10% of the total number of families affected in these two regions.
The type of assistance provided is in line with government recommendations which give priority to food, blankets and mosquito nets distributions. As per standards determined by the government, each family will receive 50 kg of food and 2 mosquito nets.
The families benefiting from CADEV’s assistance will be selected by village committees according to the following criteria: 
-	families whose house collapsed because of the flooding
-	families who lost livestock
-	families who lost crops due to the floods
-	families who haven’t received substantive assistance as yet
Islamic Relief - Emergency Nutrition Support to Niger Crisis in Tillaberi Region The current food crisis in Niger is expected to affect a staggering 7.1 million people, approximately half of the total population. Children are hardly affected and the prevalence of malnutrition among children has increased dramatically over the last few months. According to the last nutrition survey carried out in May/June 2010 by the Nigerien government with the support of UNICEF, WFP and other partners, 16.8% of children under 5 are now suffering from acute malnutrition, over a third higher than the number last year. 

CAFOD is making a grant from the GEB for Euro 40,000 to our partner Islamic Relief, who has a long experience of health and nutrition programmes in the Tillaberi Region.

This grant is part of a broader programme (NIG-010-01) which seeks to enhance food and nutrition security in Niger and includes interventions from CRS, CADEV and this Islamic Relief's project.

The Islamic Relief's project, funded by CAFOD with in-kind contributions from WFP and UNICEF, focuses on the nutritional rehabilitation of children under 5. The project primarily seeks to support the regional health department in its efforts to treat and prevent malnutrition in 3 districts of the Tillaberi Region. It is estimated that 3,000 children will be admitted in the nutrition centres supported during the 6 month project period and will benefit from the support provided by Islamic Relief.

Bearing in mind the approach which focuses on supporting national health structures (at regional and at health centres levels), the emphasis will be put on coordination with all stakeholders (including UNICEF and WFP), training and use of adequate protocols by the health personnel in the nutrition centres, as well as monitoring.