An action is effective only when it improves the living conditions of a targeted population for a long time and helps people to take their destiny into their own hands.

Our principles

 Motivate the population

 Mobilize the local resources as a priority

 Get an effective involvement of the population

 Use culture as leverage

 Keep the local authorities informed

 Aim at financial and organizational autonomy for each initiative

 Control the use of funds

The obstacles

 Misalignment of projects with needs

 Inadequacy of projects for Nigerien culture

 Short term experiments

 Corruption

Our methods

 Select participants who are trusted by the population

 Use the language of local people

 Practice public debates

 Allow time for reflections

 Let the opulation make decisions

 Write a report for each initiative

 Audit the participants and partners carefully

 Run experiments, validate them before extension