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Niger - Nutrition at a glance

2013-05-10T04:00:00.000Z

The World Bank is supporting the $35 million Niger Institutional Strengthening and Health Sector Support Project which aims to address the major institutional and organizational bottlenecks hindering progress towards Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Niger - Third Community Action Program Support Project

2013-05-08T04:00:00.000Z

The objectives of the Third Community Action Program (CAP3) Support Project for Niger are: (i) to strengthen the recipient's local development planning and implementation capacities, and (ii) to improve the access of the targeted population to socioeconomic services. The project has 4 components. (1) Capacity building component will ensure capacity building for communes and communities; improving local governance and regional governments; and promoting inter-communal collaboration. (2) Local investment fund component will assist communities to make investments to support agriculture and livestock activities, improve sustainable land management, create and/or ensure maintenance of essential socio-economic infrastructures and facilities, and diversify income generating activities. (3) Project coordination, management, monitoring and evaluation and communication component will include management of staff and equipment, financial management, procurement activities, management of the environmental and social safeguards aspects, preparation of annual work plans, and organization of supervision missions, as well as knowledge management and sharing. (4) Contingent emergency response component will be used to provide immediate response to an eligible crisis or emergency; and to finance emergency response expenditures and meet crises and emergency needs.

Niger - Transport Sector Program Support Project : P101434 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 10

2013-04-24T04:00:00.000Z

Niger - Country Assistance Strategy for the period FY08-11

2013-04-22T04:00:00.000Z

This review examines the implementation of the Niger Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) of FY08, and reviews the CAS Completion Report (CASCR). The CAS objectives were organized under two pillars: 1) accelerating sustainable growth that is equitably shared by maintaining macroeconomic stability and strengthening competitiveness, sustainable management of natural resources, the investment climate, and economic infrastructure; and 2) developing human capital through equal access to quality social services by increasing access to basic education, to basic health and nutrition services for the rural population, to safe drinking water and sanitation, to basic infrastructure services for urban residents, reducing gender inequity, and improving preparedness to deal with natural disasters. Population growth and Governance were cross-cutting issues.

Health equity and financial protection datasheet : Niger

2013-04-12T04:00:00.000Z

The health equity and financial protection datasheets provide a picture of equity and financial protection in the health sectors of low-and middle-income countries. Topics covered include: inequalities in health outcomes, health behavior and health care utilization; benefit incidence analysis; financial protection; and the progressivity of health care financing. The tables in this report show how health outcomes, risky behaviors and health care utilization vary across asset (wealth) quintiles and periods. The quintiles are based on an asset index constructed using principal components analysis. Benefit-Incidence Analysis (BIA) shows whether, and by how much, government health expenditure disproportionately benefits the poor. The distribution of subsidies depends on the assumptions made to allocate subsidies to households. Under the constant unit cost assumption, each unit of utilization is assumed to cost the same and is equal to total costs incurred in delivering this type of service divided by the number of units of utilization.

Niger - Skills Development for Growth Project

2013-04-12T04:00:00.000Z

The objective of the Skills Development for Growth Project for Niger is to improve the effectiveness of formal technical and vocational training, short term skills development and apprenticeship programs in priority sectors. There are three components to the project, the first component being improving the effectiveness of formal training. This component aims to help the Government to address the demand for skills in economic sectors with the highest growth and employment potential and to improve youth employability by supporting interventions to improve effectiveness of formal Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) through the support of new demand-driven institutions and a strengthened school-to-work transition approach. The second component is the strengthening short term skills development and apprenticeship programs. This component aims to help Niger address the demand for skills in the economic sectors with the highest growth and employment potential and improve youth employability by supporting short term skills development and apprenticeships programs. Finally, the third component is the institutional capacity strengthening and monitoring and evaluation. The main objective of this component is to support institutional strengthening and the monitoring and evaluation of the project.

Official Documents- Agreement for Advance Q851-NI

2013-04-12T04:00:00.000Z

Official Documents- Disbursement Letter for Advance Q851-NI

2013-04-12T04:00:00.000Z

Niger - Country Partnership Strategy for the period FY13-16

2013-04-10T04:00:00.000Z

Niger has recently embarked on a path to political stability and has attained positive results in reducing poverty, albeit not without uncertainties. The strategic objectives of the Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) are to assist Niger achieve resilient growth, reduce vulnerability and strengthen capacity for service delivery. Accordingly, the CPS supports actions aimed at strengthening the macroeconomic foundation, the investment climate and access to finance to build resilient growth, improve agricultural productivity and marketing of selected crops and promote risk-based agriculture to mitigate the impacts of climatic changes and variability. This Strategy is fully aligned with the 2012 Government Plan for Social and Economic Development (PDES) and the World Bank Strategy for Africa. The success of this strategy may be hampered by four foreseeable major risks: 1) the Sahel crisis and security risks; 2) climatic exogenous shocks e.g. droughts, locust infestation, floods; 3) capacity constraints; 4) and natural resources related risks.

Niger - Niger - Competitiveness & Growth Support : P127204 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 02

2013-04-10T04:00:00.000Z

Niger - Second Shared Growth Credit Project

2013-04-10T04:00:00.000Z

The objective of the Second Shared Growth Credit Project for Niger is to help improve the business environment for investment and trade, strengthen agricultural research and public financial management. The proposed project will focus on reforms to foster shared economic growth and to enhance the efficacy of public spending in Niger. Specifically, the credit supports reforms in three government priority policy areas: (1) Establishing a competitive and diversified economy for accelerated and inclusive growth. This includes a focus on strengthening infrastructure though scaled up investments and maintenance, but also through the strengthening of the institutional and policy framework, an improvement of the business environment, the strengthening of international economic relationships, an improvement in the competitiveness of the economic sectors, and the integration of the youth in economic activities. (2) Food security and sustainable agricultural development policy area will support the implementation of the 3N initiative with a focus on removing key policy constraints to the development of the agriculture and livestock sector and food security, including the reform of the research system, irrigation development, commercialization of the livestock sector, and reform of key elements of the food security system. (3) Enhancing the efficacy of public spending.

PPIAF assistance in Niger

2013-04-02T04:00:00.000Z

Niger is one of the ten poorest countries in the world. To improve key infrastructure sectors and foster economic growth, the government of Niger created in 1999 the Autorite de Regulation Multisectorielle (ARM), a multi-sector regulatory agency to oversee regulatory issues in the water, electricity, and telecommunication sectors. In light of the increasing role of private operators in the management and operation of national utilities, the government of Niger requested donor assistance, including from the World Bank and Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF), to strengthen key institutions such as the ARM.

Niger - Multi-Sector Demographic Project : P096198 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 14

2013-03-26T04:00:00.000Z

Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet (Appraisal Stage) - Skills Development for Growth Project - P126049

2013-03-25T04:00:00.000Z

Official Documents - Amendment to Financing Agreement, Credit 5132-NE

2013-03-11T04:00:00.000Z

Official Documents- Project Agreement, Credit 5132-NE

2013-03-11T04:00:00.000Z

Republic of Niger - First Growth Policy Reform Grant Project (GPRG-1), Second Growth Policy Reform Credit Project (GPRC-2), and Second Growth Policy Reform Credit Supplemental Credit Project

2013-03-07T05:00:00.000Z

Ratings for the First Growth Policy Reform Grant Project (GPRG-1), Second Growth Policy Reform Credit Project (GPRC-2), and Second Growth Policy Reform Credit Supplemental Credit Project for Republic of Niger were as follows: outcomes were moderately satisfactory, risk to development outcome was substantial, Bank performance was moderately satisfactory, and Borrower performance was moderately satisfactory. Some lessons learned include: the programmatic development policy operation approach proved extremely helpful in maintaining dialogue and reforms in a rapidly changing political environment. In particular, having an agreed reform program in place allowed the Bank to engage with the military transition government at a technical level and to continue to support the implementation of these reforms. It would have been unlikely that a new reform program could have been developed and agreed with the transition government. Close collaboration with other partners in a complex political environment is essential to come to a shared assessment of the situation and to adopt a coordinated and coherent approach in dealing with a de facto government. A programmatic development policy operation (DPO) approach plays an important role in keeping the reform agenda on track and mobilizing the Government on cross-cutting issues in an environment of frequent external shocks and instability. Most reforms would have never realized or accelerated without bank support through the growth policy reform series.

Niger - Transport Sector Program Support Project : additional financing

2013-03-04T05:00:00.000Z

The objective of the Transport Sector Program Support additional financing Project for Niger are to: (i) improve the physical access of rural population to markets and services on selected unpaved sections of the recipient's national road network; and (ii) strengthen the recipients institutional framework, management and implementation of road maintenance in Niger. The project has two components. (1) Periodic maintenance and rehabilitation of unpaved roads component (2) Institutional support to the main transport sector players through provision of capacity building and assistance in management and execution of road maintenance activities component. The proposed additional financing will complement the original project and scale up the project's impact and effectiveness in the densely populated rural areas of the Dosso, Tillabery, Zinder, Maradi and Tahoua regions of southwestern and southern Niger. The project will improve rural mobility and linkage to markets and access to health and education centers. Road side village's population will benefit from temporary jobs created by the roads works.

Niger - Second Shared Growth Credit Project

2013-02-28T05:00:00.000Z

Niger - Additional Financing for the Transport Sector Program Support Project

2013-02-19T05:00:00.000Z