Issoufou Abdou Diallo

September 20, 2024

How can we better engage youth in democracy? Issoufou Abdou Diallo, first report of the Guidiguir Commune citizens’ monitoring committee in Niger, says youth need to have a greater role in decision-making processes.

Niger Community Combats Environmentally Harmful Practice

A small community in southern Niger, Sassoumbroum (Sbroum for short) suffers from high poverty rates and rampant corruption. To make ends meet, people support themselves by cutting down trees, including...

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Fostering Leadership in Niger through Literacy Training

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October 2024

Fostering Leadership in Niger through Literacy Training

Niger has an adult literacy rate of 38 percent, with an even lower rate for women. In this traditional patriarchal society, education is too often seen as unnecessary for girls...

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2021-2026

Resilient Governance in Niger

This project strengthens the social contract between the state and citizens, and enhances individual, household, and community resilience in 19 communes in the Maradi, Tillabéri, and Zinder regions of Niger.

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2016-2021

Participatory Responsive Governance

Counterpart implemented the five-year, USAID-funded Participatory, Responsive Governance – Principal Activity (PRG-PA) project which promoted governance and policy reforms in Niger that support equitable access to education, health, and security services.