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Niger
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Recent history of Niger
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Digital education, Niger en Togo, 2020-2023
The Second Wave Education Foundation (SWEF) team has developed an application for primary school children in Francophone African countries. The start is in Togo and Niger, other countries will follow. Many children in the final year of primary school fail the African equivalent of the Cito-test keeping them to advance to secondary education. This was the reason to develop P'titPousse; an online tool to move up a level and perform better. At the request of teachers and parents, SWEF expands the application to other learning levels. For online education is becoming increasingly important in Africa through COVID-19. In addition, in Niger there is a continuous threat of terrorists. The result is that many children live in refugee camps and others in remote areas do not go to school out of fear. SWEF cooperates closely with the UN organisation for refugees (UNHCR) and local NGO's. The Turing Foundation is contributing €35,000 towards this project. See also: Other projects in Togo  Digitaal onderwijs, Guinée en Niger |
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Expansion of the school mentorship programme, Niger, 2021-2023
RAIN has been working on sustainable water and food systems, women's economic development and education in the Agadez region of Niger for nearly 20 years. The organisation has a local team with fourteen members from the region. Turing supported a RAIN female mentorship programme from 2017-2019 in which more children, especially girls, in 22 villages stayed at school and progressed to further education. The results have been positive. A total of 96% passed their primary school exams; this is more than three times the national rate. Female enrolment for secondary schools increased by an impressive 62%. The mentors have started savings and loan groups with other women which are now operating well and independently. The women have gained income and prestige in their community. They will continue fulfilling their role as mentors after the project period. This project is expanding this successful mentorship programme, after much local demand, to 19 new villages in the Agadez region. The Turing Foundation is contributing € 60,000 towards this project (of which, € 20,000 in 2023).
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 Expansion of the school mentorship programme, Niger |
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Professional development and workforce placement for youth, Niger, 2021-2022
The French Association Yara LCN gives more than 350 children and young people in Zinder (Niger) a better future by providing primary education and vocational training, and coordinating the management and operational activities of four educational buildings: two boarding schools (including one in Niamey since 2019), a primary school and a vocational training centre in Zinder. Yara LCN wants to give 120 young people in Zinder a place on one of their five vocational training courses in the 2021-2022 school year. The organisation also helps 80 graduates look for work, with 30% receiving a starter kit. The vocational training centre opened its own training restaurant in 2021, which is expected to generate increasing amounts of revenue for the centre. The organisation also wants to generate income for the sewing and woodworking courses by opening workshops. A yet-to-be-established sponsorship system will generate funds locally and in due course reduce dependence on foreign donors. The Turing Foundation is supporting this project with €10,000 See also: Other vocational training projects  Professional development and workforce placement for youth, Niger |
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"The Light of Learning", teacher training and quality improvement, Tahoua en Diffa, Niger, 2018-2021
Concern Worldwide, founded in 1968, is an international humanitarian organisation committed to fighting poverty in the poorest countries, focused on emergency aid, education, HIV/AIDS, health care and livelihoods. The foundation improves education at 54 schools in Niger by creating a safe learning environment for 13,100 children and improving the teaching skills of 280 teachers. Each school formulates and enforces a code of conduct and the children participate in decision making via a child-led council. Concern Worldwide also helps the government provide good teaching materials, train teachers in bilingual education (so that children learn to read better, and increasing parental involvement), give refresher training to teachers, and teach trainers how to monitor learning outcomes. When the project is finished, significantly more children will be able to read fluently, pupils and teachers' presence will be better monitored, and the number of violent incidents will have decreased. The Turing Foundation is contributing €150,000 towards this project (of which, €50,000 in 2021).
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 "The Light of Learning", quality improvement at schools, Tahoua en Diffa, Niger |
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Betere doorstroom na basisonderwijs voor kinderen in 22 dorpen, Niger, 2017-2019
In the isolated north of Niger, RAIN, a small American organisation with two Nigerien offices, has been working with the local population to improve its future for 15 years. Education is one of its most important programmes, especially girls' education. RAIN uses a mentor programme to pair vulnerable children with women who help them remain at school. In exchange for their guidance, the female mentors receive assistance to improve their socioeconomic position in the form of savings and loans groups and improved livestock farming. With this extra income, the school mentor group can continue independently after four years. The Turing Foundation is contributing € 60,000 towards this project, of which, € 20,000 in 2019.
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 Betere doorstroom na basisonderwijs voor kinderen in 22 dorpen, Niger |
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Regreening the Sahel, Dogonkiria en Soucoucoutane, Niger, 2017
BothEnds and CRESA have been working together since 2010 to encourage farmers to grow trees and plants on their land. The Turing Foundation has contributed € 268,000 towards this project since 2010. To cover the period until Both Ends has finalised arrangements for follow-up financing, the Turing Foundation will contribute up to € 35,000 towards this project in 2017.
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 Regreening the Sahel, Dogonkiria en Soucoucoutane, Niger |
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Education programme, Tahoua district, Niger, 2015-2017
Concern International is a humanitarian organisation with international offices in Ireland, Great Britain and the US and local teams in the twenty-five countries where it operates. Concern has been working in Niger since 2003. Concern is shifting its focus in Niger from building classrooms and facilities to improving teaching quality. Teaching materials are developed and teachers receive training to improve their teaching e.g. using video technology and mother tongue based education during the first school years. Concern encourages increased community and government involvement by setting up school management committees and by giving education inspectors guidance when carrying out their work. Together with schools, teachers and parents they formulate rules of conduct, in order to achieve a safe and egalitarian school environment. The Turing Foundation is contributing a total of €150,000 (of which €50,000 in 2017). Furthermore, this contribution has been matched by another donor, doubling the amount.
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 Education programme in the district of Tahoua, Niger |
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Speed schools for 250 Adolescents, Dosso en Tillabéri, Niger, 2014-2016
The Stromme Foundation is an international development organisation focused on microfinance and education. They operate in 12 countries across the world, including Niger, where - together with the local organisations ONEN and ATPF - they are setting up 10 Speed Schools (type 2) in Dosso and Tillabéri. These schools offer 13 and 14 year-old children, who have not had any schooling and are too old for primary education, the opportunity to have a secondary education. Six years of primary education are taught in two years of intensive schooling in small classes, after which the children are able to move on to secondary education. The Turing Foundation is contributing € 115,000 towards the establishment of 10 speed schools for 250 children, of which € 23,000 in 2016. See also: Stromme Foundation: other projects  Speed schools, Dosso region, Niger |
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Regreening the Sahel, Dogonkiria en Soucoucoutane, Niger, 2015-2016
BothEnds and CRESA have been working together since 2010 to encourage farmers to grow trees and plants on their land. 'Farmer Managed Natural Regreening' is a cost effective method, and the initiative has resulted in the regeneration of 621,000 hectares of land. Work in Dogonkiria and Soucoucoutane will be intensified over the next years, which will result in the re-greening of another 500 hectares. In addition, the local capacity is strengthened so that local support can be further increased independently, training can be provided on management and developments monitored and assessed. The Turing Foundation is contributing €80,000 in 2015, which is more than half of the total budget. The Turing Foundation has already supported Phase I of the project with €118,000 and Phase II with €70,000.
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Regreening the Sahel, Dogonkiria en Soucoucoutane, Niger |
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Vocational training for supervisors after-school activities, Tillaberi, Niger, 2012-2013
Oxfam Novib is an international organization that has made Niger one of their focus countries, because it's receiving relatively little developing aid. With the help of local partner MCE, Oxfam Novib wants to improve the quality of education in the Tillaberi region. Part of the program involves training youths who haven't been able to finish their education for whatever reason to become supervisors at after-school activities. The training offers them a chance for a better future, and school children get the chance to learn skills in the field of agriculture and cattle breeding, which will prepare them for their lives after school. MCE wants to expand this successful concept to other parts of Niger. In 2012 and 2013, the Turing Foundation will donate a total of € 50,000 (€ 25.000 in 2013) for the vocational training for 160 supervisors, and towards making the after-school activities at ten schools financially independent.
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 Children at school in Tillaberi, Niger, 2012 |
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Educational Governance, Doutchi and Filingué, Niger, 2010-2012
In the Niger departments of Dogondoutchi and Filingué, French NGO Aide et Action is dedicating itself to the improvement of the quality of education in seventeen rural areas. The past ten years the focus has been on infrastructural improvements, educational tools and teacher training. By now, pass rates of schools involved exceed the national average by over 10 per cent. With a new, three-year project, the NGO wants to realize second-chance education for children between the ages of eight and fourteen, increase the number of girls at elementary schools, and establish an increase in community involvement concerning school management. The Turing Foundation contributes € 150,000 to these activities (€ 50.000 in 2012). See also: Aide et Action International: other projects  Classroom in Filingué, Niger |
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Regreening Initiative, Phase 2, Niger, 2012-2013
In 2010, Both Ends and CIS-VU (Centre for International Cooperation -VU University Amsterdam) started the Re-greening Initiative in Niger with the help of local NGO CRESA. It involves the natural regeneration of 80,000 hectares of land, aimed at recovering nature and improving the living conditions of the local people. Phase 1 of the project saw the realization of field activities and trainings regarding re-greening in 46 villages, the installation of 38 village committees, and the start of a lobby to raise support for re-greening. Phase 2 will be focused on intensifying the project, expanding the re-greening approach to surrounding villages and regions, and strengthening the lobby for widespread re-greening support within the Nigerian government. In 2012, the Turing Foundation will be donating € 70,000 to the second phase of the project. For the first phase, the initiators previously received € 118,000.
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 Regreening Initiative, Niger |
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20 Speed schools for 500 children, Dosso region, Niger, 2011-2012
The Strømme Foundation and partner organisation RAEDD are setting up so-called 'speed schools in Niger. These schools offer children in the ages of 9-12 who haven't had any previous education a chance to join elementary education yet. The speed schools offer the first three years of elementary school in a nine-month period of intensive education for classes with a maximum of 25 children. After the nine-month course, children can take up regular elementary education. In 2011-2012, the Turing Foundation will contribute € 69,000 to the establishment of 20 speed schools, of which € 27.000 in 2012.. See also: Stromme Foundation: other projects Speed schools, Dosso region, Niger |
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Regreening Initiative, Niger, 2010-2011
Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world, with three-quarters of its surface covered by desert and 85% of its population being entirely dependent on agriculture. Both Ends and the VU Centre for International Cooperation, in association with local organisation CRESA, want to help start the natural regeneration of 80 hectares of land by creating a 'green zone', and by doing so recover nature and improve local living standards. A total of 1,200 farmers and 60 technicians will be trained in afforestation and forest restoration, and 40 village committees will be supplied with necessary materials. The Turing Foundation will donate a total amount of € 118,000 to the project (€ 45.000 in 2011) that will run until the end of this year.
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