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Currently, there are an estimated 549,000 displaced persons in Niger, including 264,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs), 250,000 refugees mainly from Nigeria and Mali, in addition to 35,445 Nigeris returning to Niger due to prevailing insecurity (source HRP, OCHA 2021). The regions hosting the largest number of displaced people are Tillabéri (38%), Diffa (26%), Tahoua (15%), Niamey (15%) and Maradi (6%).
Niger has weak protection structures and inefficient basic services for its population, the majority of which is located in rural areas, and consequently lacks the capacity and means to respond to these crises. Faced with these major emergencies, COOPI is intervening in the Diffa region with protection, emergency education, psychosocial support and mental health actions together with institutional partners such as the Regional Protection, Education and Health Directorates. Applying the same procedures, COOPI also carries out activities in the northern part of the country, Tillabéri and Tahoua, with interventions in the sectores of nutrition and health, through the Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM). In the Maradi area, it works in the sectors of mental health and psychosocial support, as well as in those of primary health and nutrition.
COOPI's work in Niger is in continuous development and aims to support the most vulnerable members of the beneficiary populations, such as women, children and people with disabilities.
Projects
Source: COOPI Annual report 2021
Beneficiaries
Source: COOPI Annual report 2021
International staff
Source: COOPI Annual report 2021
Local staff
Source: COOPI Annual report 2021
28-04-2022
Niger, located in the centre of the Sahel region, is confronted with various risks caused by events such as drought, famine, locust invasions, floods,...
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26-04-2022
Niger, one among the biggest countries in the Sahel region, is confronted with several risks and frequently faces episodes of drought, famine, locust...
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20-04-2022
The already fragile humanitarian context in Niger has been further worsened by the ongoing conflict in Mali and the spread of non-state armed groups (NSAG) in...
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19-01-2022
In Milan, from 4 to 12 December, Fiera dell'Artigianato (Crafts Fair) took place, an annual appointment that every year brings authentic products from all...
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12-10-2021
Since June 2021, COOPI - Cooperazione Internazionale has launched the second part of the project "Boosting Entrepreneurship: AGadez for Innovation and...
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23-04-2021
An open letter to States and their Leaders from the civil society organisations working with and for the 270 million people facing hunger, starvation or famine...
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19-03-2021
In West Africa, millions of people are at risk of hunger due to insecurity in the region, inflation, depreciation of the local currency and climate shocks....
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15-01-2021
As of 1 January 2021, a new partnership contract between the European Union's Department for Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) and...
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07-01-2021
Since 2018, COOPI – Cooperazione Internazionale, together with the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) and the Regional Directorate of...
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24-12-2020
Boko Haram, gunfire, bombs, kidnapped children, raped women and girls, displaced people. This is what usually comes to our minds when we talk about the Diffa...
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27-11-2020
COOPI - Cooperazione Internazionale, in consortium with other NGOs, is participating in the “Capacity building project for health structures and the...
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10-11-2020
In response to the emergency situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, COOPI - Cooperazione Internazionale has intervened in Niger with the project...
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16-10-2020
On 10 October, for the third consecutive year, COOPI took part in the "World Mental Health Day" celebrations in Niger, alongside the Ministry of...
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03-08-2020
In the Diffa region (northeast of Niger), the humanitarian crisis affecting the region since 2015 has resulted in 106,925 children between the ages of 4 and 17...
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27-07-2020
COOPI – Cooperazione Internazionale launched an assessment to understand the effects of COVID-19 on food security in the communities where it...
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23-07-2020
Niger – Sara*, 16 years old and mother of a little girl, is one of the beneficiaries of the project “Emergency Protection and MHPSS Response to...
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04-06-2020
Since March 2020 the Covid-19 health emergency was added to the humanitarian crisis already pre-existing in the Diffa region, south-east of Niger. Up to today...
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29-04-2020
Since the end of March 2020, the first cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Niger as well, especially in the city of Niamey, the capital. COOPI in Niger...
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19-03-2020
In March 2019, COOPI started a new education in emergency project in Diffa Region (South-East of Niger). The project “Promotion and right to education...
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03-01-2020
COOPI has adopted a digital-based educational approach in order to let Nigerian refugee adolescents continue their studies in Diffa - thanks to...
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10-10-2019
Today October 10th 2019, World Mental Health Day was celebrated around the world, focusing on suicide prevention. COOPI is co-lead of the mental health...
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20-06-2019
In 2018, 70.8 million people fled war and persecution – this is the highest number ever recorded by the United Nations Refugee Agency in the Global...
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14-06-2019
On June 9, 2019, we ended our "Project for the improvement of climate resilience and food security of the rural municipalities of Soucoucoutane and...
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22-05-2019
In the Sahel, malnutrition rate for children aged 6 to 59 months exceeds the critical threshold of 2% for severe acute malnutrition and 40% for chronic...
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14-05-2019
Every day, Z.B. is facing the effects of climate change in the rural municipality of Soucoucoutane in Niger. "The environment has been steadily...
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19-04-2019
Tillabery is a city 120 km away from Niamey, where severe acute malnutrition is causing high rate of mortality and morbidity in children under 5...
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11-04-2019
Four agricultural fairs have been organized in the region of Dosso, in Niger, since the "Improvement of climate resilience and food...
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14-03-2019
There is a simple and clever system to preserve fertile land: the half-moon technique. We have been successfully testing it in Niger, in the Dosso region....
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01-09-2018
COOPI's "Programme to meet essential humanitarian needs for the protection and education of children and adolescents affected by the Lake Chad...
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24-07-2018
On July 18th 2018, during his stay in Niger, European Parliament president Antonio Tajani had the chance to visit one of the guest houses for refugees and...
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04-06-2018
Food security in Niger is an ever-present challenge. COOPI does not avoid facing it and has been supporting local communities for seven years to solve the...
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09-05-2018
Since December 2017, COOPI has been working with UNHCR to provide refugees from Libya with shelter and protection during their transit through Niger, as part...
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16-04-2018
«Art, sports and cultural events are actual instruments capable of reducing tension while enabling children to learn in a protected and positive...
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16-04-2018
Fati, Aichatou, Wodi and Youra are some of the names of the twenty young persons participating in the COOPI project, funded by AICS (the Italian...
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05-04-2018
Within the framework of the educational project financed by the Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development (AICS), COOPI selected ten primary schools,...
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04-04-2018
Within the framework of the project devoted to Education in Emergency financed by AICS (the Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development) in the...
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03-04-2018
Floriana Bucca, head of the project devoted to Education in Emergency financed by AICS (the italian Agency for Cooperation and Development), met Ms....
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29-03-2018
In Niger, education is a great challenge for each government in office and, in order to face it, the State undertakes to create conditions capable of...
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18-01-2018
The Mother and Child Centre in the health district of Tillabéri (one of Niger’s eight Regions), operating since February 2017, was conceived as a...
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16-01-2018
Just outside the Kabelawa Recasement camp for refugees and evacuees, approximately 60 kilometres from Diffa, a group of boys plays football on a stretch of...
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05-12-2017
In the Diffa Region (southeast of Niger), massive population movements are occurring: due to the attacks exerted by Boko Haram, raiding even in hosting...
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21-11-2017
From 25th September to 13th October, ten community teachers were trained in N'Guigmi, one of the seven Departments of the Diffa Region in Niger. These...
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15-11-2017
A report on mental health services in emergency settings published by the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that humanitarian emergencies double the...
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27-09-2017
In Niger, food security is a constant challenge: there is a need to improve the nutritional benefit of foods, increase productivity in order to meet the...
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31-08-2017
Niger- a country in extreme conditions of poverty- has been suffering for years from unstoppable natural phenomena such as droughts and frequent floods. The...
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29-12-2016
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21-11-2016
In the Lake Chad basin, millions of people are facing one of the biggest humanitarian crises in the world. Since 2009, the violence perpetrated by the Nigerian...
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28-10-2016
Malnutrition can be tackled not only through material means, but also through psychosocial support. Mariama, a young Nigerian mother of two children, is well...
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25-06-2016
Also in Nigeria the school year is coming to an end. In Niger a group of 40 refugee students could pass their final exam thanks to the remote education program...
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20-06-2016
On the World Refugee Day, UNHCR reminds us that every minute 24 people in the world are forced to leave and to escape from their own homes. In 2015, for the...
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12-05-2016
Since 2012, COOPI- International Cooperation has been present in Tillabery, a district in the South-east of Nigeria, with projects focused on malnutrition....
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10-05-2016
The violent outburst of Boko Haram, has caused a crisis of enormous proportions both in Niger and Nigeria. At present, The State of Borno- Nigeria -...
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16-02-2016
In September I had the opportunity to see in person how COOPI develops its nutrition project in Tillabéry region (Niger) tanks to the funding of the...
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08-02-2016
?When they arrived they started to burn the houses. Then when all people went out on the street the men of Boko Haram started to shoot. The cars burned?there...
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27-01-2016
The UNICEF reportage deals with the work of COOPI and of other Italian NGOS in Sahel. In the countries of Sahel as Niger, Mali and Ciad, COOPI has fought...
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