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DAKAR – Despite considerable efforts by governments and partners, food insecurity continues to worsen in West and Central Africa with the number of hungry people set to reach a staggering 49.5 million people between June and August 2024 – a four percent increase compared to 2023, according to a regional food security analysis released today. The…

Sub-Saharan countries have been working for many years to introduce local languages into their education systems, alongside the official languages inherited from their colonial history. This report showcases the results of studies conducted in central Sahel countries, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, aimed at evaluating the existing bi/plurilingual…

DAKAR, 7 April 2023 – An estimated 970,000 children under 5 from West Africa’s three central Sahel countries (Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger) will face severe wasting this year as families deal with high food prices, conflict and climate change, according to new data gathered by UNICEF. Niger faces the highest severe wasting burden in the central…

GENEVA/DAKAR/NEW YORK, 17 March 2023 –Ten million children in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are in dire need of humanitarian assistance – twice as many as in 2020 – largely due to spiralling conflict, while nearly 4 million children are at risk in neighbouring countries as hostilities between armed groups and national security forces spill across…

Children in the central Sahel are increasingly caught up in armed conflict, and the intensification in military clashes is putting their lives and futures in extreme jeopardy. Over 10 million children across the central Sahel require humanitarian assistance amid armed conflict and climate change. UNICEF calls for urgent support to respond to the…

The Sahel region is prone to recurrent crisis, potentially reversing development gains, but it is also a land of opportunities. The communities there have shown extraordinary resilience to the shocks they face. With the support of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), UNICEF has launched an innovative…, They talk about resilience in the Sahel, Interventions resources medias       Interventions to strengthen national and decentralized systems to improve access to equitable adaptive social services across 6 social sectors.   The programme supports adaptive and adapted systems at national and local levels, in order to provide risk-informed and child-centered social services: health Health…, Interventions to strengthen community resilience through multisectoral community capacity building and engagement., Women and men in communities are empowered to lead in the planning, implementation, management and, monitoring of prevention and response to shocks, and contribute to community-led service provision. UNICEF promotes community-based systems, interlinked with decentralized social systems. As an example, with the community-led total sanitation…, Interventions to strengthen individuals – including children and youth - resilience through sustainable social and individual behaviour change., Children and adolescents are involved as actors in changing behaviour and promoting sustainable development. Resilience is based on their initiatives and responsibilities, as well as those of their families and communities, with specific local goals and control of results. As an example, youth have mobilized to counter misinformation and fake news…, Interventions to strengthen evidence-based learning with stakeholders., Evidence-based learning with stakeholders is crucial to adapt and improve resilience programming throughout the four-year implementation period and ensure that models developed are efficient, flexible and scalable., Media library

L’exercice de Classification de la Sévérité WASH (WASH Severity Classification, WSC) conduit au Niger en juillet-aout 2021 a déterminé que les conditions en termes d’eau, assainissement et hygiène (EHA) de l’ensemble du pays étaient en phase 3 (crise), à l’exception des départements de Mayahi (Maradi) et Ayerou (Tillabéri), qui ont été classifiés…

WASH Severity Classification  The absence of a recognized and standardized framework to transform complex data into actionable information has become a bottleneck in decision-making processes for the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) sector. To remedy this, a novel WASH Severity Classification system (WSC) has been recently developed, but not…

PARTICIPATORY INTEGRATED COMMUNITY-BASED APPROACH       Standards for community engagement and proposed steps   PARTICIPATORY INTEGRATED COMMUNITY-BASED APPROACH (ICBA)       Dialogue and accountability between bondholders and rights holders.   PARTICIPATORY INTEGRATED COMMUNITY-BASED APPROACH APPLIED IN NIGER   PARTICIPATORY INTEGRATED COMMUNITY-…

Analyse rapide de genre –Niger La présente étude est une analyse rapide de genre (ARG) réalisée par Samuel Hall pour le Fonds des Nations Unies pour l’enfance (UNICEF), et se base sur une approche principalement qualitative, suivant la méthodologie d’analyse rapide de genre élaborée par CARE International. Elle vise à évaluer les problématiques et…

Strategy Advancement Report  The need for access to safe and sustainable water services in the West and Central Africa region is immense. In 2020, only 65% of people in SubSaharan Africa had access to basic water service, and only 30% had access to a safely managed water service. The situation in schools and healthcare facilities is even more dire…

DAKAR, 6 April 2022 - An estimated 6.3 million children aged 6-59 months will suffer from wasting in six Sahel countries [1] in 2022, putting the lives of at least 900,000 children at risk, warns the West and Central Africa Nutrition working group. The group is calling on donors and partners to urgently increase their support to respond to the…