National policies, plans and risk and governance profile(s)

This paper provides a framework, key principles, and a repertoire of options for adapting social safety net projects to unprecedented levels of insecurity. It fills an operational knowledge gap regarding project design, implementation, and supervision

In this paper, the authors test whether cash transfers help households mitigate the welfare effects of climatic shocks. They also analyze mechanisms that contribute to enhance resilience, including the role of savings, asset accumulation and income

Designing, implementing and monitoring policies and programmes for sustainable development is particularly challenging in fragile and conflict-affected contexts. Against this underlying fragility, regional to global threats including climate change

Since the start of the flooding, the ANADIA project has followed the extension of the flooded areas in Niamey, Niger Capital city, through the analysis of Sentinel 2 satellite images at a resolution of 10 meters acquired on the dates of August 16

The flooded areas map has been produced by the ANADIA2 project from Sentinel 2 satellite images at a resolution of 10 meters acquired on the dates of August 16, September 5 and September 10, 2020. The classification of the flooded areas was carried out

South of the Sahara, flood vulnerability and risk assessments at local level rarely identify the exposed areas according to the probability of flooding or the actions in place, or localize the exposed items. They are, therefore, of little use for local

Cover and source: UNDP
Phase II of the “Building Capacities for Resilient Recovery” aims to better prepare governments to manage future recovery processes in an effective, sustainable and inclusive way.

This is a cartographic atlas of flood-prone areas over the 108 km of the Nigerien reach of the Sirba River. Maps are compiled at large (1: 100’000) and detailed (1: 20’000) scales. The most exposed riverine villages of Tallé, Garbey Kourou, Larba Birno

View more Knowledge Base entries

Further DRR country-level resources

IRP resources on Niger
The International Recovery Platform strengthens knowledge and information on building back better in recovery, rehabilitation, and reconstruction.

Explore the Knowledge Base

PreventionWeb's knowledge base contains more than 75,000 entries and is updated daily.

Bookshelves in a library.
Type of content
Explore all updates by their type: news, publications, resource guides and more.
Thai people making sandbags to prevent flooding during the monsoon season in Bangkok, Thailand
Themes
Explore by the DRR theme: Human, economic, governance, science, environment and more.
Different symbols of hazards and disasters.
Hazards
Explore by the hazard type: floods, heat, landslides, drought and more.
Airplane from above
Resource guides
Keep up to date with various DRR topics and emerging trends.

Is this page useful?

Yes No
Report an issue on this page

Thank you. If you have 2 minutes, we would benefit from additional feedback (link opens in a new window).