Re-focusing development actors’ targeting on the poorest people in the Sahel to build long-lasting resilience

23/10/2012

After the crisis in Niger in 2005, the European Commission’s Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection, more commonly called ECHO, conducted a series of evaluations in the Sahel. The problem of malnutrition, which had been revealed in Niger, proved in fact to be firmly rooted throughout the Sahelian strip, far beyond the economic crises linked to rain and harvests.