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This country economic memorandum aims to support Niger’s efforts to walk on a path conducive to resilient and sustainable economic growth.

This brief focuses on how climate change acts as a threat multiplier, worsening the existing risks and vulnerabilities to hunger for already disadvantaged people, particularly women, agricultural workers, and small-scale farmers.

The World Bank supports Niger’s resilience through the Disaster Risk Management and Urban Development Project. This includes drainage, flood protection, sustainable land and water use, and capacity development in early warning, preparedness, and response.

This year’s World Meteorological Day, emphasised the importance of early action and early warning systems for impact-based forecasting – a focal point for NORCAP’s climate services experts.

The World Bank-financed Niger Integrated Urban Development and Multi-Sectoral Resilience project will address the effects of high flood risk and rapid urban growth, with an integrated approach that supports urban development and disaster risk management.

Niger is the first country in the West Africa region to develop a trigger-based adaptive safety net for drought response designed to provide early assistance to affected households.

In response to the need to support efficient implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the Sendai Framework in sub-Saharan Africa, UNDRR is supporting closer engagement of DRR and CCA practices, communities, and institutions.

This study seeks to advance discussions and reflection on legal, policy, institutional and coordination approaches to dealing with displacement associated with disasters, conflict and their interplay.