Status
ClosedAid type
Project-type interventionsNiger
Location
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€ 900,000
Committed
Committed
€ 900,000
Used
Used
Description
The Italian Agency for Development Cooperation is contributing to the implementation of the present initiative led by the International Red Cross Committee (ICRC), in collaboration with the Red Cross Society of Niger. This project aims to protect and assist people affected by armed conflicts, abuses and violence, while restoring or maintaining their livelihoods, making sure that the rule of law is respected. ICRC will ensure prompt and adequate health and nutrition assistance to victims of violence, paying particular attention to the most vulnerable population, which includes migrants, children, women, persons with disabilities and widows. Strategies will be adopted in order to ensure and enhance the standards imposed by International Humanitarian Law between authorities and armed groups, especially in areas along Niger's borders. Furthermore, the ICRC will facilitate restoring family links, reconnecting members of families separated by armed conflict, detention or migration; and it will ensure that families are informed of the death of relatives during armed conflicts or along the migration route. The ICRC aims to ease overcrowding prisons, a phenomenon that, together with inadequate health-care and poor hygienic conditions, causes high rates of malnutrition and frequent epidemics affecting the physical and psychological state of prisoners, ultimately compromising their living conditions. Moreover, prisoners in jails will be assisted to ensure that their judicial rights are respected. Once released, prisoners will be provided with money and clothes to enable them to return home. In order to prevent and limit the spread of hygiene-related diseases, the ICRC will promote good hygiene practices and will facilitate access to adequate and free health-care and physical rehabilitation, and will support health facilities providing technical and material support, including staff training. Furthermore, in collaboration with local authorities, the ICRC will install water points to increase water supply in rural and urban areas of the Diffa region and in border areas, which are currently hosting large numbers of displaced persons and migrants.
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| Year | Committed | Used |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | € 900,000 | € 900,000 |
Agency
| Type | Name | Channel code |
|---|---|---|
| Government | AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development | 11000 |
Channel reported
| Type | Name | Channel code |
|---|---|---|
| International NGO | ICRC - INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS ALT | 21016 |
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