Bilingual Education in Niger - ADEA

This document was commissioned by ADEA as part of the exercise on the quality
of education in Sub-Saharan Africa commenced in 2002-2003. It was later
published in the collection “African Experiments – National Case Studies”.
The views and opinions expressed in this document are those of the authors
and cannot be attributed to ADEA, the members of ADEA, the organisations
affiliated to it or to any person acting in the name of ADEA.
The work undertaken in the context of the exercise on quality of education and
this document was financed from the programme funds of the Association for
the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) to which the following organisations
have contributed: African Development Bank (AfDB); European
Commission; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
(UNESCO); United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF);
The World Bank; Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Department of Development
Cooperation, Austria; Canadian International Development Agency
(CIDA); Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland; Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Department of International Cooperation and Development, France; German
Cooperation; Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland; Japan International
Cooperation Agency (JICA) ; Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands;
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD); United States
Agency for International Development (USAID); Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
(Portugal); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC),
Switzerland ; Department for International Development (DFID), United
Kingdom.
Published by the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA).
ISBN-10: 92-9178-100-2; ISBN-13: 978-92-9178-100-3
First print-run: January 2010
The French translation of this book is entitled «Bilingual Education in Niger» ISBN-10:
92-9178-099-5; ISBN-13: 978-92-9178-099-0
Graphic design for the cover and internal page layout: Marie Moncet
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(ADEA) – 2010
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