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Opportunities Industrialization Centers Niger (OIC Niger)

DATE ESTABLISHED 1990

MISSIONOIC Niger is working to reduce poverty and food insecurity in Niger.

ORGANIZATION OVERVIEWOIC Niger is helping to reduce poverty in Niger by reinforcing the ability of people to help themselves, with a specific focus on enhancing incomes through microenterprise activities.  OIC Niger fosters democratic participation at the grass-roots level and its beneficiaries are exposed to self-help strategies for local empowerment and sustainable development.  Since OIC Niger's inception, it has successfully used resources from the United States Embassy in Niger, the International Founation for Education and Self-Help, from private contributions from individuals and businesses in Niger, and from cost-recovery services the organization has designed.

PROGRAMSOIC Niger works with poor women credit groups in the agriculturally productive region of Tillaberi and in the peri-urban areas outside of the capital of Niamey.  OIC Niger helps strengthen the capacity of group members to manage credit revenues and provides credit counselling services for organized women's groups.  More broadly, OIC Niger offers programs in the following areas:
  • Microfinance support and credit management training and assistance
  • Health and agricultural financing and technical assistance
  • Information education / communication training
  • Community organization and technical assistance for rural and urban organizations
Since its inception, OIC Niger has helped to:
  • Implement microfinance project mechanisms for urban health programs
  • Implement a microfinance/health, nutrition & HIV/AIDS project for mothers and children
  • Introduce community farming projects in order to encourage food security and nutritional sustinence in rural communities in Niger
ACHIEVEMENTSOIC Niger has:
  • Served 43 women's groups comprising almost 4,000 members
  • Provided microfinance credit to 500 beneficiaries
  • Trained 1,750 group members in managing health funding resources
  • Witnessed a two fold multiplication of revolving microcredit fund revenue
  • Trained 130 members in business negotiation and bank loan solicitation
CONTACT OIC NIGER Board Chair: Mr. Djibo Garba
Address: B.P. 12671, Niamey, Niger
Tel: (227) 73-37-89
Fax: (227) 73-37-89
oicniger@intnet.ne
Program Director: Mr. Hassane Karanta Assoumane
Address: OIC Niger, BP 12671, Niamey, Niger
Tel: (227) 20-75-3145Fax: (227) 73-37-89
ha_karanta@yahoo.fr; oicniger@intnet.ne
PARTNERSInternational Partners: National Partners:
  • Government of Niger (Ministry of Territorial Management and Community Development)
  • Niger Association of Professional Microfinance Institutions (ANIP-MF)
  • Association of Collectivity and Ecology
  • Direction of Agricultural Assistance and Development
  • Niger Organization for the Development of Human Potential

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