Niger project 683-0279 · 1992–1997 · disaster readiness, prevention and recovery · Checchi and Co. Consulting, Inc. (CCCI)

Project to support a program (6830271) to strengthen the Government of Niger's (GON's) capacity to assess and respond to disasters. The project will provide TA in establishing disaster related procedures and activities, commodities, training, logistical support, and studies, and it will finance replicable pilot disaster mitigation activities and support to the Directorate of Crop Protection (DCP). An institutional contractor will field a long-term TA team to consist of four specialists: a financial management and administration specialist to manage the Emergency Fund being established under the program, and a disaster operations specialist, an early warning and data collection and analysis specialist, and a program development specialist to provide direct TA to the Systeme d' Alerte Precoce (SAP), the GON's organizational base for disaster response. A variety of short- term TA will be provided as well. The project will finance a mix of in-country, regional, and overseas, short-term training. In-country, there will be workshops, seminars, conferences, training sessions, and study tours for GON officials at the arrondissement, department, and national levels on such topics as dat

Source: DEC abstract, XD-ABF-097-A (1992). The source's own text.