Research

More than 3 billion people live in contexts that are highly vulnerable to climate change (IPCC, 2022). Yet, adapting to the impacts of climate change remains a complex process: multiple sectors as well as a wide range of social,...

Located in semi-arid zones in Niger, the oasis basins in Gouré department  are threatened by desertification. These islands of crops  are essential  for the lives of local residents. This project is called PASAM: a project supporting  household food security. It is supported by Agence...

The Global Partnership for Education, which aims to improve the quality of learning and reduce inequalities in access to education, has delegated to AFD its mission to increase the effectiveness of the education system in Niger and Guinea. The goal: to get more kids in class and provide more...

Based in Niamey, AFD's Niger office is attached to the Sahel Regional Division.

This project, which has the Sahel Alliance label, is being implemented for young people in Diffa, a remote region badly affected by the security crisis. To combat the feeling of exclusion among young people and improve their prospects, the project will promote social cohesion, income creation...

By cofinancing the hydropower plant of the Kandadji Program, AFD is helping Niger accelerate its economic development. The plant will indeed reduce the recurrent electricity shortages and allow the extension of irrigated agriculture, while promoting the use of local energy resources.

Access to contraception is a major public health issue for women around the planet. To mark World Contraception Day on 26 September, AFD took a look at this issue through a major awareness-raising initiative led by the NGO Solthis in Niger.

Niger’s 10-year focus on youth entre-preneurship has achieved limited results. It needs to be better funded, coordinated and complemented by a more holistic industrial policy and si-gnificant improvements in education.

As a priority area for French development policy, the Sahel is faced with a diverse array of security, climate, economic, social and political challenges. The countries in the region (Burkina Faso, Cape Verde,...

Rapid population growth, poorly planned urbanization, and evolving agricultural production and distribution practices are changing foodways in African cities and creating challenges: Africans are increasingly facing hunger, undernutrition, and malnutrition. Yet change also creates new...

Niger is stepping up its action to fight malnutrition, in large part with the production of Misola infant flour. The locally produced flour is tackling food insecurity across the country. Co-financed by the Cooperation and Cultural Action Service (SCAC) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD...

The days of spending hours heading to administrative buildings in the capital may be nearing an end. Niger’s government business is going online, in an effort to improve service and expand public access.

Agence Française de Développement and its partner CFI are undertaking an ambitious project to support the media in the Sahel. The objective is to promote the inclusion of youth in public debate in the region’s countries.

This paper uses a mixed methods approach to identify factors that challenge and enable young adults’ inclusion in the world of work in Niger, through a gender-streamlined analysis of different poverty trajectories of livelihoods and how these are affected by training, education and migration. We...

This article briefly explores how to combine two qualitative methodologies to inspect the topic of youth inclusion in Niger via a mixed methods analysis. It presents the ethnographic approach developed by LASDEL’s social anthropological qualitative methodology and the CPAN’s critical realist...

The Sahel – the semi-arid band stretching from Mauritania and Senegal in the west to Eritrea in the east – has an exceptionally young population. This poses major challenges in terms of education, training, health and governance. But as Jean-Marc Pradelle and Lisa Verrière of Agence Française de...

The current development of African education systems focuses on the perspective of universal completion of six years of schooling. This perspective, targeted by the international community for the year 2015 (Dakar declaration, Millennium Development Goals), will no doubt be reached by a number of...

The degradation of agricultural land, which has intensified in Niger in recent years, has become both a problem for the climate, and a social issue. In response, the RESILAC project proposes targeted solutions for local populations.