Niger programs / NEPRP
Evaluates the Niger Economic Policy Reform Program (NEPRP), to promote policy, administrative, and institutional reforms that foster increased exports of agro-pastoral products. Preliminary impact evaluation covers the period 1988-8/95 against a PACD of 6/96. The NEPRP is a successful broad-based experimental reform program. In applying a flexible sector grant approach to a combination of economic and political constraints, this program represented "cutting edge" approaches to development assistance in West Africa in the late 1980s. The focus on obligation of funds using conditionalities at a strategic objective level (reduction of marketing costs such as taxes and illegal payments) with sector performance measured by customer surveys, represents an experiment in reengineering the delivery of USAID development assistance. The reforms supported by the NEPRP fall into five categories: (1) elimination of export taxes and export quotas on agro-pastoral products; (2) reduction of domestic illegal payments to public officials on the roads by traders and transporters of agro-pastoral exports (rent seeking); (3) regional market development through promotion of trade relationships betwee
Source: DEC abstract, PD-ABP-587 (1995). The source's own text.
Operated in: Niger. 2 other countries are only tagged on documents.
When the program ran, from its start year to the latest document year. A hatched bar means the start is our estimate.
Axis: award years, end from years in documents. The start year comes from award fiscal year; the end is the latest document year, so the program may have run longer.
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Evaluation studies and evaluation-type documents linked to this program.
| Title | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Niger economic policy reform program (683-0259 and 683-0263) : evaluative assessment | 1992 | Evaluation-type document |
| Niger economic policy reform program (NEPRP) : preliminary program impact evaluation | 1995 | Linked evaluation |
| Name | Role | Years | Basis | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Government of the Republic of Niger | co signer | 1992 | Likely, not confirmed | 1 source |
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Operated in Niger, 1988 to 1995 6 sources
Scope: country: Niger. The award code belongs to this country's mission. High confidence.
How sure we are: 0.9.
| Name | Years | Basis | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 |
| Stated in a document |
| 1 source |
| Nigeria | 1988 | Stated in a document | 1 source |
| Name | Years | Basis | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| AOT-0261-C-2049 (contract, fiscal year not recorded) | 1992 | Stated in a document | 1 source |
| Name | Years | Basis | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| USAID. Mission to Niger | 1992 to 1995 | Stated in a document | 2 sources |
| USAID. Mission to Niger | 1988 to 1994 | Stated in a document | 4 sources |
| Name | Years | Basis | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niger | 1988 to 1995 | Stated in a document | 6 sources |
Sector profile (computed): Macroeconomic foundation for growth 41%; Good governance 30%; Energy (power, fuels, renewables, efficiency) 7%
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Program key prj:6830259