End-of-Project External Evaluation
This independent final evaluation was carried out in Niger in November 2016. The project was funded by the Office of United States Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA-USAID) and carried out by Action Against Hunger in Niger, in technical partnership with the Nigerian Association for the Revitalising of Local Initiatives (NGO KARKARA). The project intervened in three communes in the region of Diffa (Diffa, Chétimari, and Maïné Soroa), with the main objective of “improving the food security and the living conditions of the host communes and displaced Nigerians affected by the humanitarian crisis in the region of Diffa”. The specific objective aimed to “respond to the immediate needs of the host communes and displaced people affected by the activities of Boko Haram in the border area between Niger and Nigeria”. Some recommendations include:
- Assure better integration of women in the framework of the project and in its content, there is a need to orientate the income-generating activities towards women affected by the crisis. This strategy could be implemented by organising these women with the backing of a micro-funding partner.
- In the case that there is another cycle, consideration should be given to integrating, right from the start of the project, ownership strategies and ensuring the sustainability of the benefits, working together with the communities, communes, and the regional, departmental, and local technical services.
- To guarantee the sustainability of the achievements, it is essential that Action Against Hunger continues their technical and financial partnership mobilisation efforts to assure better project coherence with respect to the time frames, the type of problem being addressed, and the initiated solutions.
