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Project to support flood victims in Niamey Diocese, Niger Heavy rains have resulted in flooding in Niger. According to the latest information from the government (as of 10 July 2017), 19,459 people have been affected.  The worst affected regions are Tillabéry and Niamey. Further rain is expected in August. In mid-June, Diocese of Niamey in collaboration with the municipal authorities of Makalondi conducted a needs assessment. The methodology included direct observations,17 focus group discussions with community members (totalling approx 500 individuals) followed by on-site verifications by CSD members and representatives from the commune of Makalondi. According to this data, 1,552 households (8,515 people) have lost all their assets with the collapse of more than 750 houses and / or huts. There are also concerns about the side effects of floods that are likely to cause malaria and diarrhea. Immediate intervention is needed to prevent the spread of these diseases. The priority needs identified by communities were hygiene and household kits. CAFOD Niger has verified that there the community needs have not changed since the assessment was conducted
Improving Access to Sanitation Services in Madarounfa - MARADI Precipitation from June to August 2018 caused severe flooding in 6 of the country's 8 regions, affecting 65,170 people, 19 deaths, 25,944 animals decimated, more than 5,000 collapsed houses and more than 6,500 hectares of flood-damaged crops . The Maradi region is the most affected, followed by Zinder, Agadez and Diffa.
These floods destroyed the already inadequate EHA infrastructure in the communities. Precarious living conditions (lack of hygiene, very limited access to drinking water and latrines) expose the population to the risk of cholera contamination that continues to spread in this region.
Niger is facing an epidemic of cholera, which has declared itself in the health area of MADAROUNFA, and has spread to the health districts of Maradi commune and Guidan Roumdji, in the Maradi region.
A needs assessment conducted by NCA has a low infrastructure coverage, 4 of the 5 health areas targeted by NCA have no water infrastructure; The populations are fed either at the level of the pools, puddles of water or through trenches made in the ground; In addition, there is low sanitation coverage and precarious hygiene conditions, including defecation in the open air. In response to this situation, NCA through this project proposes to promote a healthy environment and good hygiene practices in the target communities through:
-The conduct of awareness-raising campaigns and the promotion of appropriate hygiene practices (hand washing, safe storage of water, food preparation, safe disposal of children's feces and practices Safe burials); Environmental health campaigns etc.
-Improvement and maintenance of basic sanitation infrastructure, provided by the local community this, in complement to an ongoing intervention aimed at improving access to drinking water.
Prevention and treatment of malnutrition among children under five and PLW in Tera Global acute malnutrition remains rampant in Niger especially during the lean period when the number of the affected children, pregnant and lactating mother rise. In 2015 the rate of global acute malnutrition was o 15% which is equivalent to WHO’s emergency threshold. The Tillabéry region (where Tera Health District is situated) is not an exception with 13.1% of GAM and 2.5% of SAM in 2015.  The 2016 nutritional  has shown signifiquant improvement in regard to the previous year as follow: In rural area, the rate of global acute malnutrition is 9.4%, the rate of acute severe malnutrition 1.6%  and the rate of acute moderate malnutrition is of 7.8%. The nutrition status of children in Niger is closely linked to the level of food access and availability in the country. For those living in rural areas such as those targeted by this project this is usually is challenge especially when the harvest is not sufficient enough to cover the needs of the families. Also coupled to the lack of food is poor hygiene and poor feeding practices.  Despite the positive changes the District of Tera is facing insecurity problems witch make some part of the area to be under state of emergency. The will make the situation more worse with significant impact on the health and nutrition status of the community menbers especialy under five children and pregnant and lactating women.  This is the reason why CADEV has submitted this project to CAFOD to help reduce the rate of malnutrition in the health areas of Kokoru  and Bankilare.  It is important to notify that the previous project was implemented in Diagorou, Taka, Bouppo, Bangare, Gabitane, Tillim, Tegueye, Wanzerbe, Yatakala, Bellekoira, Wezabangou. these are more affected by the state emergency this make the accessibility more difficult and risky. CADEV Niger requested the fund to implement the project in Bankilare et Kokorou. Activities will be centres towards:  awareness raising sessions, promoting essentials  family practices , culinary demonstrations, and early detection of malnutrition through screening, supporting health centres with drugs and hygiene kits and food stuff for accompanier of malnourish children hospitalised in Tera Hospital. In all CADEV will reach out to 16351 children, 8502 pregnant and lactating mothers, 10 health workers and 192 community volunteers people. 
CAFOD has been providing support to fight malnutrition and save the lives of many children and women.
Support to CADEV Niger nutritional recuperation centres Since 2005 hunger crisis, severe malnutrition has been very acute in Niger and usually beyond the alert levels of 10%. Between 2005 and 2010 acute malnutrition prevalence has been higher than 15%. Even in periods with relatively good harvest, acute malnutrition prevailed due to other factors such as people's cultures, poor eating habits, poor breastfeeding methods of infants, etc. a nutritional survey carried out in June 2010 revealed a global acute malnutrition prevalence rate of 15% of  which almost 17% among children aged between 6 and 59 months. This means that the rates of acute malnutrition were higher than in 2009 and is still higher in 2011. In December 2010, a joint communiqué issued by the government, UNICEF and the WFP talk of 15% of acute/severe malnutrition in 5 out of 8 regions in the country. In 2010 alone, 313000 children have been treated of acute/severe malnutrition making it almost a fifth (1/5) of all the treated severely malnourished children in the world.

Since 2005, CADEV has been at the forefront in the fight against malnutrition but supporting nutritional recuperation centres throughout the country currently totalling 12 centres in Niamey archdiocese and Maradi Dioceses. CADEV approach has also incorporated malnutrition prevention by carrying awareness messages among affected communities and by promoting best practices such as exclusive breastfeeding for babies until they are 6 months old. CADEV also trained its staff and community link people in dealing with malnutrition cases; and this strategy has borne fruits in a country where there is lack of sufficient medical personnel and where malnutrition is rampant and chronic. 

CADEV 2010 programme has officially come to an end and they are currently writing a proposal to continue with their programme. But there is going to be a gap between now and when they finally get the funding. That is why CADEV is submitting this project to bridge the gap and continue to offer their services to the needy. The project is planned for 2 months between April and Mai 2011 to bridge the funding gap.
Support  the rehabilitation of Church building in Zinder parish, Niger The Diocese of Maradi covers 5 regions: Maradi, Tahoua, Agadez, Zinder and Diffa with a total population of 8 023 299 people.
It is divided into 4 sectors:
-	East sector  covering Maradi, Zinder and Diffa parishes 
-	West Sector covering Tahoua, Birnin Konni parishes
-	North sector covering Agadez, Tchirozerine and Arlit parishes.
Niger has been seen for many years as an example of peaceful coexistence among religious groups.   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. 
Zinder region was one of the region that has been affected and the demonstration took place on 12 January 2015 and was characterised by the destruction of many churches, catholic missionary school, French cultural center and leisure places. This caused 45 cases of sustained injuries,   4 deaths and many lost in term of valued materials.  Up till now, the effects of the riot is felt while visiting the Catholic Church were many devices are still in destructed conditions.
This project was developed to support rehabilitation of building within  the Catholic Church in Zinder. In addition to that materials such musical instruments and loud speakers, chairs and a generator will be purchased to replace those that have been destroyed
Integrating WASH activities in food security and livelihood in Baban Tapki, Niger. In 2013 CAFOD provided support to CADEV Maradi to built 50 wells to help communities grow food outside the main agriculture season which is only 3 months a year. Through this project communities are able to grow food throughout the year because of increased access to water for the irrigation of their gardens. However despite the success of this project, safe drinking water remains a challenge in the community where people have to go as far as 15kms to fetch the rare commodity. Some people have been consuming unsafe water destined for garden irrigation increasing the risks of water borne diseases. This project will help drill 2 boreholes for potable water for community members.
Targeted number of people are 1667 of which 238 men, 238 women, 631 girls and 560 boys. The project will also help cover 50 shallow wells to prevent ground water contamination by sediments and other contaminants (including faecal materials, crop residues, animals…) from the surface and to prevent accidents within the community such as people falling in the wells. The project will help address issues of food security livelihood and WASH. CADEV Maradi who is the implementing partner has the experience and is able to deliver on this programme.
Supporting Caritas-development-Niger in the Covid-19 response Niger registered its first case of Covid-19 on 19 March 2020 and since then the number of cases has only increased and as of April 14, 2019, 570 cases have been declared positive for covid-19 of which 90 patients were cured and 14 died.
This situation is most worrying because of the pre-existing factors that increase the vulnerability of the population to the pandemic and will make it very difficult for the Government to carry out its response activities to Covid-19. Among these factors are the following: Epidemic meningitis during this dry season, voluntary deprivation of food during Ramadan, risk of propagation of Covid-19 because of Transhumant movements, Agricultural lean season and Water shortage throughout the country 

In this situation, the involvement of everyone remains the only way to overcome this epidemic.

This project will therefore support our partner Cadev Niger in its planned activities and its support to the initiatives taken by the government to respond to this epidemic. In the name of the Caritas Country Forum, CADEV will intervene in the activities of sensitization of the population, training of health workers on topics related to the prevention and management of nosocomial diseases in general and Covid-19 in particular, supply of personal protective equipment and other medical consumables, supply of water, hygiene and sanitation (WASH)  in the hospital environment, mainly in the 36 health facilities operated by the Catholic Church.

The project will be financed by all the organizations of the Caritas Country Forum (Niger).
Malnutrition prevention and treatment for children, pregnant and lactating mothers in Tera District In Niger, the prevalence of acute malnutrition is consistently above the 10% warning level, and at least one area is always above the emergency level during lean periods. The 2015 agriculture season has been globally very poor in terms of harvest and the availability of food within households. Rains came very late in season and where very heavy at times and destroyed crops. This has created a situation of food insecurity where which has exacerbated the nutritional situation by increasing the number of children below 5 years of age affected by malnutrition and also of pregnant and lactating mothers. According to official government and OCHA figures there are up to 3.6 million people threatened by severe food insecurity. Tillabéry region where CAFOD has been supporting malnutrition prevention through BRACED and other funding sources is not spared. According to the latest national survey on nutrition and child survival carried out by Niger Ministry of Public Health, the nutritional is particularly critical in 4 out of 8 regions of Niger with rates beyond emergency threshold of 15% set by WHO. Currently Tillabéry Region has the malnutrition rate of 13.1% still above alert threshold (10%) set by the WHO. This means that everything has to be done to prevent the Tillabéry nutrition situation from worsening and reaching the emergency level. If the levels in Tillabéry have remained quite low compared to the other regions it is also because of the work CADEV/CAFOD and others have been doing in malnutrition prevention and treatment over last years.
This project is being proposed to help CADEV Niger provide malnutrition treatment to 10 Integrated Health Centres (Lemdou, Bankilare, Chatoumane, Pettelkole, Amarsingué, Zaneye, Fambita, Komabangou, Goundaye and Kokorou) where CADEV has been providing malnutrition prevention services through BRACED. The total number of beneficiaries expected is 9,677 children below 5 years of age and 6,674 pregnant and lactating mothers. It is important to note that CAFOD alongside other agencies (Caritas Luxembourg, Secours Catholique France, Caritas Germany, and Kindermissions-Werk) funded a 2 years nutrition project implemented by CADEV Niger which was complementary to BRACED and allowed CADEV to transfer any child or women suffering or suspected of suffering from malnutrition for treatment. This project officially ended end of last year 2015. CADEV has found it difficult to make any transfers of the sick because they were no longer able to provide any treatment. That is why this project is important to help complement the prevention work being done through BRACED.
CAFOD costs from Integrated food security project NIG045 Through the Integrated food security project in Dogondoutchi, CAFOD costs such as 30% of the Programme Manager' and also a couple of field visits by the DRR Adviser will be covered. The total amount for this project is £18,639 coming from ICD627 (Caritas Australia's contribution to the Food security Integrated project. The money will cover CAFOD monitoring by CAFOD by the Programme Manager based in Niger, the DRR Adviser monitoring trips and CAFOD admin costs. Note that the Admin costs 4% of £32,598 have already been deducted at source. This approval will only be of £17,335.79.
Institutional support to CADEV Niger CADEV Niger has been restructuring and has recently written a strategic plan for which CAFOD made a contribution alongside other Caritas organisations. During the launch of their strategic plan in Paris in November last year CADEV Niger raised the issue of insufficient institutional support to help them pay salaries and cover other expenses. Misereor that supports most of these costs was also considering reducing their contribution. Currently CADEV Niger is having some problems covering these costs for the next three months. That is why the Archbishop made a written request to CAFOD to help make a contribution. During the Paris meeting CAFOD was categorical that we would not do any institutional support outside a project where we normally can provide up to 7% to cover management costs. But due to the problem,, CAFOD has considered CADEV Niger request expressed by Mgr Michel Cartatéguy, the Archbishop of Niamey and has accepted to offer a contribution of £12000.
CMDRR training of trainers in Niger-BRACED Proposal 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.
Supporting community Initiaitves inthe Village of Goube, in Niger Niger is among the poorest countries in the world, situated in the dry Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa. Ranking 187/188 on the UN Human Development Index(HDI), Niger citizens receive on average 5.4 years of schooling compared to 7.3 and 7.7 years in Chad and Burkina Faso (ranking 186/188 and 185/187 on HDI, UNDP 2017 Human Development Report). For those that do enrol in school, 36% drop out before completion and only 50% of teachers  are trained, all contributing to Niger  status of the lower adult literacy rate in the world(19%; World Bank data, 2015). 
The situation in remote localities is even more challenging. In Goube village, just 28% of children (6-13 years) are enrolled in primary school-less than the half the national average percentage of 71%. The remaining 71% (c.500 children) have no access  to primary education, instead staying at home or working in the fields(2016 statistics, Goube Commune). Goube  primary school was established just 2 years ago by the community resulting in government funded teachers  has no desk or benches, packing 200 children into two makeshift classroom  made of hay.
The project seek to increase education opportunities for 400chidren in Goube per year, by creating  more conductive learning environment  and increasing the enrolment capacity , providing training and running community education drives to increase  awareness on the importance  of education.
The project is funded by GOAC. CAFOD  and CADEV Niamey  will work in partnership  to implement the project.  CAFOD have longstanding relationships with Goube community, this started with the solar power irrigation project  that increased water availability  to 150 household contributing  to the successful harvest  on which the school was founded.
Project  for peace consolidation and  dialogue between young people of Maradi Diocese The diocese of Maradi in Niger covers 5  regions (Maradi, Agadez, Tahoua, Diffa and Zinder) with an average population of 8.023.299. It is divided into 07 parishes: 
- Agadez, Tchirozerine  and Arlit parishes in the north sector
-Tahoua, Birni Konni  parishes for the west sector
-Maradi, Zinder and Diffa parishes for the eastern part of the country.
The average distance between parishes  is about 350 km. Islam is the major religion across the country.  Nowadays, we observe  that integrism is rising  among community members, this phenomenon has negative impacts on the population in general and for the survival of church in particular. Even though Niger reflects a good model for cohabitation and religion tolerance,  in 2012 and 2015, the country experienced  interreligious violence that affected Christian minority.  these cause significant loss of property, destruction of infrastructure, school, death and physiological trauma and feeling of insecurity. In addition to that, Muslim youth though being assimilated with violence , this make them to be living with fear of reprisal  and adopt defensive attitudes. On the other hand, Christian youth felt being victims of violence   with loss of properties and destruction of worship places, this make them for living in fear and adopting  attitudes for prevention of the occurrence of this phenomenon.
CADEV Maradi requested support from  CAFOD for funding a project that will enable them to work with the youth from different religious group of  the diocese to foster among them mutual understanding, fraternity and tolerance for better coexistence.  This project contribute in peace building  and interfaith dialogue among the community members in general and the youth in particular  for proper prevention of the occurrence of interreligious conflicts.
Peace consolidation in Niger for better governance This project will assist in consolidating peace in Niger.
Niger is the poorest country on the globe ranking 187/187, according to UNDP 2014 development index, despite the presence of huge deposits of uranium, some oil and gold. Niger however suffers from a lot of governance problems, and as such, the general elections due later this year has seen the political situation get tense; risking the country plunging into chaos and violence. 
This situation is exacerbated with a growing Muslim fundamentalism and radicalism in the country. In January 2015, Muslim radicals burnt churches and other properties belonging to Christians. This situation has created a lot of bad feelings and mistrust between minority Christians and the majority. Church leaders have condemned these sad events have called for a peaceful coexistence.  

Through this project CADEV Niger will contribute to peace consolidation, peaceful coexistence in the country and increase citizen's participation in the elections in Niger.
Final Evaluation of GOAC- Funded Education Project in Goube To capture the impact of the GOAC-funded Education project, a final evaluation was planned to assess the quantitative and qualitative achievements of the project (NIG081) including school retention rate, success rate and quality of the learning environment.