Niamey (Niger)

Niamey, Niger

WP1 - Vulnerability Assessment:

Work in Niamey focuses on a new methodology developed to investigate aspects of resilience in very poor urban contexts where economic assets are universally constrained. It was developed to explore scope for adapting a rural food security monitoring tool, the Household Economy Approach (HEA), to urban contexts. This is a food and water security early warning and vulnerability assessment tool used throughout the Sahel region and with extension to East Africa now being adapted to urban contexts including work in Niamey with UN High Commission for Refugees on water and food security, flooding and conflict stress. 

Additional work being undertaken in Niamey includes urban textures analysis and a DesInventar study. The DesInventar methodology explicitly designed to draw out extensive as well as intensive loss data and underlying social vulnerability. 

This publication covers a range of disaster risk management (DRM) themes, from community participation in DRM data collection to risk mapping and from urban waste management to hazard accumulation

Author(s): 

Mark Pelling

In African cities, orienting risk management towards a developmental agenda can

confront the root causes of poverty and risk. Transition to an integrated approach has

Capitale du Niger depuis 1926, la communauté urbaine de Niamey couvre une superficie de 255 km².

Community-based organisation and action can contribute greatly to disaster risk reduction, and interlinked to this, to building resilience to the impacts of climate change.

Community-based organisation and action can contribute greatly to disaster risk reduction, and interlinked to this, to building resilience to the impacts of climate change.

The inhabitants of African towns and cities face a range of hazards, which can best be described as representing a ‘spectrum of risk’ from events that can cause death, illness or injury, and impove

La résilience urbaine est un produit de la capacité des ménages à absorber le stress, às’adapter et à transformer la marge d’action en gestion du risque.

Urban resilience is a product of the capacity of households to absorb stress, adapt to, and transform scope for action in managing risk.

Author(s): 

Juliette Domon

Le rapport présente les résultats d’une étude Baseline sur l’Analyse de l’Economie des Ménages Urbains (HEA Urbain) à risque d’inondation de la ville de Niamey au Niger.

Author(s): 

Oumarou Haladou Issoufou, Nora Lecumberri

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