Niger

With an estimated population of 21.5 million, Niger is faced with daunting development challenges, exacerbated by security concerns from terrorist incursions, challenges with the transit of Europe-bound migrants, climate change and excessive population growth.

Niger is vulnerable to high levels of food insecurity, illness - including endemic malaria – and poor access to services, water, and sanitation. Consecutive food, nutritional, and pastoral crises have affected much of the Nigerien population over the last twenty years, jeopardizing the lives of millions of people who are already chronically food insecure.