Integrated project to support the resilience of vulnerable refugee, displaced, returnee and host populations in the Diffa region

Funded by the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa and implemented by ACTED and several NGOs, this project targets young people in the Diffa region. Conducted within the framework of the fight against poverty, instability and humanitarian crises, the project contributes to operationalising the humanitarian-peace-development nexus. Activities target vulnerable people, regardless of their status (host communities, displaced persons or refugees) through the construction/rehabilitation of community infrastructure, access to basic social services (water, health, education) and other responses to urgent needs. Women-headed households will be particularly targeted. The project will respond to short-term needs and the effects of the chronic crisis affecting these areas while working towards reducing vulnerability in the medium- and long term.

Global objective

Improve the living conditions, the resilience of vulnerable populations and social cohesion through the economic, social and governmental recovery of seven municipalities

Specific objectives

Improve access of households and vulnerable groups to basic social infrastructure and services (water/sanitation, health/nutrition and education)
Sustainably improve the capacities of the most vulnerable communities, households and people to anticipate, absorb and recover from shocks affecting their food and nutrition security
Ensure strong decentralised governance by strengthening the capacities of authorities and technical services
Strengthen local development through the creation of economic opportunities and the development of local economic capacities

Expected results

Mapping of existing basic infrastructure and their conditions
14 water points created or rehabilitated
700 family and 140 community latrines built
200 hectares recovered
1 000 beneficiaries trained in modern agricultural techniques
7 dialogue frameworks set up in the targeted municipalities
390 young people trained in a professional activity
8 farmer organisations supported

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Duration

3 years : 13/12/2017 - 31/12/2020

Localisation

The project is implemented in the Diffa region of Niger in the following communes: Chétimari, Diffa, Gueskérou, Kabélawa, Maine Soroa, N’Guigmi and Toumour.

Beneficiaries

6 000 housholds (~42 000 people) of the Diffa region

Budget

EUR 10 000 000

Funding

European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa

Implementation

ACTED (lead)
Concern Worldwide
Welthungerhilfe
IMPACT Initiatives

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Country

Niger

Topics

Agriculture & value chains
Aide d’urgence
Education
Employment & revenues
Food security & zero hunger
Gender
Governance & capacity-building
Health
Livestock & pastoralism
Local actors & livelihoods
Markets, prices & trade
Natural resource management
Nutrition
Poverty
Social affairs & social protection
Water & sanitation
Youth

Targets

Institutions
Pastoralists & Agro-pastoralists
Poor households
Poor workers in the informal economy
Refugees
Vulnerable small-scale farmers
Women
Youth

Agir Pillars

Pillar 1: Improve social protection for the most vulnerable communities and households in order to secure their livelihoods
Pillar 2: Strengthen the nutrition of vulnerable households
Pillar 3: Sustainably improve agricultural and food productivity and the incomes of the most vulnerable households and improve access to food
Pillar 4: Strengthen governance in food and nutrition security

Scales

Local