Phase Pam Mrp Tender

In Niger, 20% of the population depends on livestock farming as their main source of income, but finds themselves in precarious situations due to recurring crises. Aid is not adapted to the nomadic lifestyle, which results in the systematic marginalization of pastoral households in the response. Switzerland contributes to strengthening monitoring and needs assessment systems, in order to guarantee an improvement in the food and nutritional security of these households.

Country/region Topic Period Budget
Niger
Humanitarian Assistance & DRR
Emergency food assistance
Protection, access & security
15.10.2023 - 31.12.2027
CHF 2,500,000
The project in brief
Background In Niger, 20% of the population depends on livestock as the main source of livelihood, representing 11% of the national GDP. Despite the economic weight of pastoral households, the specificity and assessment of their needs remain little taken into account in the organization of the aid response, including humanitarian aid. Their nomadic and transhumant lifestyle – 80% of pastoralists – is the main reason. Added to this are access difficulties due to the deterioration of the security context since 2015, which mainly affects pastoral areas. Furthermore, climate change increases the frequency and intensity of droughts and accelerates land degradation, resulting in increased food insecurity for these already precarious populations. Humanitarian aid is struggling to adapt and remains, for the moment, insufficient (too little too late) and not very systematic, which does not ensure or safeguard the resilience of households, which is diminishing year after year. The coup d'état that took place on July 26, 2023 and the sanctions increase the vulnerability of pastoral populations in particular. In this context, support for the WFP will make it possible to strengthen its collaboration with the National Food Crisis and Prevention System (DNPGCA)/Early Warning System (SAP) unit to improve the monitoring mechanism and deploy an adequate and timely response. among pastoral households.
Objectives Contribute to meeting the needs of vulnerable pastoral populations in food and nutritional security, adequately and in time in the face of sudden shocks.
Target groups The DNPGCA/SAP, the Pastoral Civil Society (SCP) and the Ministry in charge of livestock are strengthened; 2,160 people from pastoral households have their food and nutritional needs covered each year, or 8,640 people over four years.
Medium-term outcomes
The monitoring mechanism and targeting methodology are strengthened and systematized in the analyses of household vulnerability assessment tools with the number of vulnerable pastors identified by the analysis of the harmonized framework (HF).
The food and nutritional security response is better oriented and implemented among vulnerable pastoral households with the number of vulnerable pastoralists assisted within the framework of the National Response Plan (PNR).
Results Ex