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Amadou, from Niger, had one leg amputated after poliomyelitis and another severe infection. As a child, he did not have the opportunity to go to school as other children. He is now part of a rehabilitation programme, ProDIB, and works as a salesman to support his family.
CBM's Niger Country Office works together with a network of six partner organisations to support the delivery of medical, educational, rehabilitative and socio-economic services to improve the quality of life of persons with disabilities in the country.
Niger Country Background
When not properly addressed, disability can have a major impact on quality of life, social and economic viability, and overall levels of poverty within a society. In Niger, specifically, the challenges facing persons with disabilities and their families are daunting. An estimated 61% of Niger’s population lives in extreme poverty on less than a solar a day (World Bank, 2009). Persons with disabilities are over-represented in the most extreme poverty group, with women and children faring the worst.
Niger Country Office
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Soumana Zamo
Location: Niamey
Country Representative: Soumana Zamo
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The Country Coordination Office in Niger was opened in January 2011. Its main mission is to coordinate the activities implemented by the different partners of CBM; the office’s mission also includes capacity building for partners and other disability stakeholders on the rights of persons with disabilities with a view to achieve an improved inclusion of their needs in development and emergency programmes and policies.
The Country Coordination Office cooperates with local partners with whom CBM signed a partnership framework agreement and annual contracts for implementation of activities. They are:
- NGO Karkara
- NGO NIGETECH
- The National Blind Union, Niger (UNAN)
- NGO Inclusive Development Organization (ODI)
- Niger’s Deaf Association (ASN)
- The Ministry of Health (MOH) National Programme of Prevention of Blindness (PNLCC) through the Regional Directorate of Public Health.
CBM in Niger: Present perspectives and outlook for future
Our current priorities are:
- Capacity building for partners;
- Monitoring and evaluation of activities implemented by partners;
- Updating the country situation analysis;
- Organising a baseline study within the framework of an inclusive community-based development programme.
- Capacity building for partners in the area of Disability and Inclusive Development (D&ID);
- Implementation of a multi-stakeholder inclusive community-based development programme (Karkara, ODI Niger, NIGETECH, CURE and Ministry of Public Health); it is a multi-sector program with three components including prevention and provision of services, capacity building of stakeholders, coordination, collection and sharing of best practices;
- Active participation in advocacy actions for inclusion of PWD’s needs in Development programs and policies:
• Advocacy with the National Institute for Statistics (INS) for the implementation of an inclusive general census of population and housing.
• Advocacy with the Permanent Secretariat of the PRSP and other stakeholders in order to make the PRSP inclusive.
• Advocacy with microfinance and micro-credit institutions for provision of services for all.
CBM began working with partners in 1984 and was officially recognised as an international NGO working in Niger in 2000.
