Central Sahel Advocacy Brief
<p>The surge in armed violence across Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger is having a devastating impact on children’s survival, education, protection and development. The Sahel, a region of immense potential,
Niger
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Assessing the climate-smartness of the West Africa agricultural productivity programme (WAAPP): what can we learn from Benin, Guinea, Niger, Togo and Chad projects?
This info note summarizes the findings from participatory assessments of the climate-smartness of World Bank funded West Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme (WAAPP)”. This activity was implemented
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Empowerment and nutrition in Niger: insights from the women’s empowerment in nutrition grid
Present a novel application of a regression decomposition technique, the Shapley Owen decomposition, to identify the aspects of empowerment associated with undernutrition in Niger. Niger is one of the
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When rising temperatures do not lead to rising tempers: climate and insecurity in northern Niger
This paper explores the complex and tangled links between climate variability/change and the proliferation of armed networks operating in northern Niger. It does so by examining the factors influencing
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Teenage girls to deliver over 70 million babies by 2030 — Report
If current trends are not checked, there will be more than 70 million babies born to teenage girls globally between now and 2030, a new report by Save the Children has found. Nigeria is expected to
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Trends in contraceptive prevalence rates in sub-Saharan Africa since the 2012 London Summit on Family Planning: results from repeated cross-sectional surveys
<p>The Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) initiative, launched at the 2012 London Summit on Family Planning, aims to enable 120 million additional women to use modern contraceptive methods by 2020 in the world’s
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A destiny shaped by water: a diagnostic of water supply, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and poverty in Niger
The Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Poverty Diagnostic (PD) in Niger is part of a global initiative to improve evidence on the linkages between WASH and poverty. The Diagnostic provides a
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Floods ravage rice production in Niger's Diffa region
Floods destroyed more than 400 hectares of rice in Niger's southeastern Diffa region, already beset by deadly attacks by Boko Haram jihadists, the local governor said. Nearly 3 000 tons of rice worth more
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Floods in Niger claim 45 lives since June: UN
Forty-five people have died in the arid west African country of Niger in flooding since June, and nearly 209 000 have been affected, the UN said on Tuesday. The rains destroyed nearly 17 400 homes,
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Burkinabe farmer wins 'alternative Nobel' for drought-fighting technique
A farmer from Burkina Faso who popularized an ancient farming technique to reverse desertification is among the winners of Sweden's "alternative Nobel prize", announced on Monday. Yacouba Sawadogo shared