Niger


Country Contact
Nancy Ali, West Africa Regional Director
Tel. 202.835.3100
1776 Massachusetts Ave., NW Suite 300
Washington, DC 20036
Current and Recent Donors
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
UNFPA
Since the 1990s, reaching women and their children with lifesaving interventions.
- 14 health care providers at five health care facilities are providing postpartum family planning services, including the postpartum intrauterine contraceptive device, where these services were not available before.
- The midwifery curricula at two midwifery and nursing schools have been updated and revised to use competency-based learning approaches, resulting in students having more opportunities to learn and practice clinical skills during their studies and being more competent in midwifery skills upon graduation.
Our Technical Areas in Niger
Our Work in Niger
Performance Management and Action Project (PMA)
This four-year project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, builds on the PMA2020 project, which used innovative mobile technology to support low-cost, rapid-turnaround surveys monitoring key health and development indicators. PMA is enhancing this survey platform to generate high-quality data and ensure that governments, donors, managers and advocates use this data to make decisions regarding family planning programs. In addition to scaling up the survey platform for more widespread use, this project supports expanding it to include additional technical areas. Co-led by Jhpiego and the Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, this project is operational in several African and Asian countries, including Niger.
Accelerating Uptake of Expanded Method Mix
Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, this program promotes access to family planning choices in West African countries by supporting the introduction and scale-up of subcutaneous depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA-SC). DMPA-SC is an innovative injectable contraceptive—also known as Sayana® Press—that can dramatically expand access and choice for women. Jhpiego is enhancing ongoing efforts of the Access Collaborative by strengthening health systems to accelerate introduction and scale-up of DMPA-SC in several West African countries, including Niger.
Impact Malaria
Impact Malaria is a global project of the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative to reduce mortality and morbidity caused by malaria. Implemented by a consortium of organizations led by PSI, the project is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development. In close collaboration with Niger’s National Malaria Control Program, other sections of the Ministry of Health and various implementing partners, Impact Malaria is designed to improve malaria service delivery via the following objectives: 1) improve the quality of and access to malaria case management and prevention of malaria in pregnancy; 2) improve the quality of and access to other malaria drug-based approaches and provide support to pilot/scale up newer malaria drug-based approaches; and 3) provide global technical leadership, support operational research and advance program learning.
Country Contact
Nancy Ali, West Africa Regional Director
Tel. 202.835.3100
1776 Massachusetts Ave., NW Suite 300
Washington, DC 20036
Current and Recent Donors
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
UNFPA