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Africa
Niger
Niger
Household food security project (PASAM)
Fixation technique
Productive safety nets project
Gardeners and their produce supported by Save the Children – Tessaoua district
Summary and objectives
Target groups
Summary and objectives
• gardening and animal husbandry;
Niger is facing a severe food shortage. Half of the
The agro-pastoralists and pastoralists of Goure and
Sharp price increases for staple foods during 2008,
• publication and dissemination of comparative
nation’s population (7.5 million) is threatened by fam-
Maine departments.
and continuing high prices in 2009, have worsened
evaluation study.
ine, with farmers and herders the fi rst to be affected.
This project is an emergency effort to provide vul-
Final beneficiaries
the state of food security in Niger. Productive safety
nets, including cash-for-work, are an effective way
Target groups
nerable households with greater access to grains
by preventing the silting of croplands and pastures.
The programme uses a cash-for-work strategy based
on community participation. The women and men
selected to carry out the work are from disadvantaged
households. Activities are funded through project
grants which serve to raise the incomes of benefi -
ciaries. With the approval of the community, 20% of
grant funds are used to fi nance local grain stores
and banks of agricultural and livestock inputs. The
objective is to improve the food security of vulnerable
households of Maine-Soroa and Goure by reconciling
natural resource preservation with intensive agro-
The 21 108 agro-pastoralists, including 10 493 women,
of the Goure and Maine areas of a total estimated
population of 189 972 inhabitants.
Total estimated cost *
€ 1 275 750
Amount requested *
€ 1 148 173
Partners
Association Vétérinaires Sans Frontières – Centre
International de Coopération pour le Développement,
of assisting the chronically poor in Niger to access
an adequate diet and protect and promote their
livelihoods. Since 2009, the Save The Children’s
programme in Maradi has included safety net measures
that combine cash transfers with nutritional
supplements, and support for the local production
of vegetables, pulses, milk and meat to strengthen
household resilience to high prices. The objective of
the action is to promote and protect the livelihoods
of very poor households so that they can cover their
basic needs throughout the year with less use of
damaging coping strategies; selling assets, taking
loans, mortgaging land, reducing food intake and
4 000 vulnerable households participating in
the project; children and their mothers/primary
care-givers.
Final beneficiaries
The members of the households concerned, about
26 000 people.
Total estimated cost *
€ 2 211 970
Amount requested *
€ 1 990 775
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pastoral production.
Main activities
France.
quality, putting children to work.
Main activities
Partners
In association with local government: regional and
• fi ghting against the silting of cultivated areas;
• cash transfers to 4 000 households
sub-regional food crises committees, district techni-
• clearing strips of land to serve as fi re breaks;
(cash-for-training);
cal directorates.
• seeding degraded pasture land;
• training of 4 000 mothers/care-givers on
• building grain stores;
malnutrition prevention;
• allocating agricultural and livestock inputs;
• increasing and diversifying vegetable gardening
on protected sites.
KARKARA – Association
Nigérienne pour la Dynamisation
des Initiatives Locales, Niger
coordkarkara@yahoo.fr
barreamadou@yahoo.fr
www.karkara.org
DCI-FOOD/128608/329
• fi nancial and technical support and inputs to
1 000 household production projects;
Save the Children Fund,
United Kingdom
countrydirector@
savethechildrenniger.org
www.savethechildren.org.uk
DCI-FOOD/128608/278
* Actions and amounts can be discussed/negotiated among the parties
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