Overview

Background

The climate in Niger is of the Sahelian type characterized by a great inter-annual rainfall, which has been expressed by multi-year droughts since 1968.

Major adaptation activities include, development of the concerted management of water through management committees for national waters basin and through joint-commission and multilateral bodies for trans-border waters and the improvement of knowledge about the great fossil aquifers prior to a balanced exploitation.

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  • National Communication (NC)

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    Niger - Second National Communication - 9 December 2009
    Key Vulnerabilities
    • Agriculture
    • Livestock Production
    • Health
    • Water Resources
    Potential Adaptation Measures

    Agriculture

    • Improvement through research of the genetic resistance to the desiccation of cereal varieties and improvement of farming techniques
    • Effective protection of crops against harmful organisms
    • Diversification and intensification of irrigated farms
    • Support to the promotion of sub-urban vegetable farming
    • Promotion of Income Generating Activities and the Development of Credit Unions

    Livestock Production

    • Support to traditional breeding through the development of pastoral facilities and securement capacities in grazing areas
    • Increase the productivity of livestock by improving the genetic potential and the development of agriculture/livestock integration
    • Support to village poultry farming
    • Recovery of the live or dead stock value chain
    • Support to the organization of the livestock value professionals
    • Support to the privatization of the zoo-veterinary profession
    • Fight against epizootics and setting up health intelligence
    • Promotion of dairies and support to sub-urban livestock production
    • Support to veterinary and zoo technical research
    • Promotion of unconventional livestock production
    • Support to the implementation of the action plan for the recovery of livestock production in Niger and attendant measures

    Health

    • Handling of endemo-epidemic climate sensitive disease cases
    • Promotion of epidemic prevention and control measures
    • Building the capacities of the mechanism to collect data necessary for decision-making with a view to managing climate-sensitive disease epidemics
    • Introduction of an adequate research-action system likely to enable rapid and efficient decision-making
    • Setting up and continuous reinforcement of an adequate biological monitoring system
    • Adequate and free handling of meningitis cases
    • Sensitization of the populations for the protection and prevention against climate-sensitive diseases
    • Coordination of decisions and actions to epidemics at all levels
    • Setting up high-performance vaccination strategies
    • Setting up a communication and social mobilization system in the event of epidemics
    • Systematic vaccination

    Water Resources

    • Knowledge and control of water resources
    • Improvement of the coverage of the populations’ water needs and their living environment
    • Support to all production sectors while seeking a better adequacy between costs of investments, maintenance and operation of water infrastructure
    • Full participation of the populations in the design and execution of water works
    • Protection of water resources and water ecosystems
    • Development of water resources through a better organization of value chains
    • Adequacy between water supply (for domestic, industrial, agricultural use...) and the treatment of residual water
    • Adequacy between facilities disrupting water regimes

    FULL REPORT: Niger- Second National Communication - 9 December 2009

    Niger - Initial National Communication - 13 November 2000
    Key Vulnerabilities
    • Agriculture/Food Security
    • Water Resources
    • Public Health
    • Terrestrial Ecosystems
    Potential Adaptation Measures

    Agriculture and Food Security

    • Educational & outreach activities to change management practices to those suited to climate change
    • Develop new crops
    • Develop and introduce policy measures, including taxes, subsidies, facilitation of free market
    • Develop early warning systems and disaster preparedness

    Water Resources

    • Increase water supply, e.g. by using groundwater, building reservoirs, improving or stabilizing watershed management, desalination
    • Decrease water demands, e.g. by increasing efficiency, reducing water losses, water recycling, changing irrigation practices
    • Improve or develop water management
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    Niger - National Communication June 20, 2009

  • National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPA)

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    National adaptation programmes of action (NAPAs) provide a process for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to identify priority activities that respond to their urgent and immediate needs to adapt to climate change – those for which further delay would increase vulnerability and/or costs at a later stage. The following summarizes the NAPA for Niger.

    Description The objectives of NAPAs are: To serve as simplified and direct channels of communication for information relating to the urgent and immediate needs for adaptation in Niger; To facilitate capacity building for the preparation of initial national communications, and addressing urgent and immediate adaptation needs.

    June 23, 2009
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