What works in Niger
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Evidence snapshot for Niger
Niger faces a severe child-marriage challenge, with 76% of women aged 20–24 having married before age 18 as of 2012, though a major girls-empowerment programme (2016–2020) succeeded in raising income and legal-age knowledge but did not significantly reduce marriage rates. The country has piloted innovative digital humanitarian and development tools: mobile-money cash transfers reduced collection distance from 1km to 0.45km during the 2010 drought response, and tech-focused initiatives including CIPMEN's business incubator (222 companies, 7,901+ trained by 2023) and the Connected African Girls Coding Camp (25,000+ trainees across six editions) are building digital and entrepreneurial capacity. The evidence shows Niger simultaneously tackling deep social challenges and investing in innovation, though social-programme impact on marriage norms remains limited by the practices evaluated.
Drawn from: Zap — Mobile Money Cash Transfers for Drought-Affected Households · More Than Brides Alliance — "Marriage: No Child's Play" in Niger · CIPMEN — Niamey's Public-Private Business Incubator for the Sahel · Connected African Girls Coding Camp — Robotics, IoT & AI Bootcamp in Niamey, Niger · WURI-Niger's Iris Biometric Pilot — Testing MOSIP Digital ID Deduplication in Four Communes · Niger's Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration — State Tree-Tenure Reform (Code Rural) · Niger's Smart Villages for Rural Growth and Digital Inclusion — a $100M Rural-Connectivity Bet Still Short on Delivery
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Impact on gender equality +30 pts 100 here · 70 average
Curator validation +27 pts 100 here · 73 average
Evaluated outcomes +22 pts 100 here · 78 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +19 pts 67 here · 48 average
Equity & inclusion +17 pts 67 here · 50 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +11 pts 100 here · 89 average
Weaknesses
Inclusiveness / equity -10 pts 33 here · 43 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -14 pts 33 here · 47 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -14 pts 33 here · 48 average
Scalability & sustainability -18 pts 44 here · 62 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -20 pts 33 here · 54 average
Documented learning -24 pts 50 here · 74 average
Demonstrated reach -26 pts 50 here · 76 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -27 pts 0 here · 27 average
Efficiency -32 pts 0 here · 32 average
Sustainability -36 pts 42 here · 78 average
Effectiveness -66 pts 0 here · 66 average
Achievement / evidence -87 pts 0 here · 87 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Niger. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
Zap — Mobile Money Cash Transfers for Drought-Affected Households · 76
More Than Brides Alliance — "Marriage: No Child's Play" in Niger · 56
CIPMEN — Niamey's Public-Private Business Incubator for the Sahel · 48
Connected African Girls Coding Camp — Robotics, IoT & AI Bootcamp in Niamey, Niger · 47
WURI-Niger's Iris Biometric Pilot — Testing MOSIP Digital ID Deduplication in Four Communes · 40
Niger's Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration — State Tree-Tenure Reform (Code Rural) · 40
Each number is the practice's overall 0–100 quality score against its catalogue's rubric. Know more
Cities with evaluated practice
Where the documented practice in Niger concentrates — each city has its own evidence profile.
Recommended to adopt or replicate
Transferable practices from elsewhere that address this place's gaps.
Ciudad Mujer — El Salvador's Integrated Women's Services Programme · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 3 other places
SASA! Community Mobilisation Programme against Intimate Partner Violence — Uganda · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 4 other places
Karya — Fair-Wage AI Data-Work Platform Bringing Digital Income to Rural India · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
safe+natal — Comadrona-Designed Smartphone Checklist for Maternal Risk Screening in Rural Guatemala · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Digital Green — Video-Mediated Agricultural Extension · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Kartu Prakerja – National Digital Skills and Financial Inclusion Programme · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Rwanda's Land Tenure Regularization Programme — Titling Land in Women's Names · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 6 other places
Fit estimates how well a practice matches this place, 0 (poor) to 100 (excellent); the list is ordered to favour practices that address this place's gaps. Know more