What works in Niger
3 evaluated practices · All catalogues
Evidence snapshot for Niger
Niger faces one of the world's highest child-marriage rates — about 76% of women aged 20–24 married before age 18 as of 2012 — though a girls'-empowerment programme found no significant reduction in marriage itself despite raising girls' knowledge and income. On environmental restoration, farmer-managed natural regeneration enabled by tree-tenure reform has regenerated an estimated 5–6 million hectares over roughly 20 years, with on-farm tree density rising from around 4 to 40 trees per hectare, though the causal yield impact remains under evaluation. Mobile-money cash transfers during drought reduced collection distances substantially (0.45 km vs 1 km for manual cash) and modestly improved diet diversity, though at slightly higher per-recipient cost once handset costs were included.
Drawn from: Zap — Mobile Money Cash Transfers for Drought-Affected Households · More Than Brides Alliance — "Marriage: No Child's Play" in Niger · Niger's Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration — State Tree-Tenure Reform (Code Rural)
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +0.67
Transferability / replicability +0.396
Governance, certification & transferability +0.306
Documented learning +0.276
Demonstrated reach +0.265
Curator validation +0.25
Impact on gender equality +0.173
Evaluated outcomes +0.163
Innovation level +0.144
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +0.129
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +0.098
Weaknesses
Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced -0.099
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -0.216
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -0.405
Efficiency -0.517
Effectiveness -0.811
Sustainability -0.814
Achievement / evidence -0.927
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
Niger's Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration — State Tree-Tenure Reform (Code Rural) · 40
Recommended to adopt or replicate
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