Second Public Works Project

Niger

Over half of Niger’s population lives below the poverty line, and urban infrastructure is largely underdeveloped, especially in the capital Niamey. As the local construction industry lacks sufficient expertise to deal with procurement procedures and have inadequate supplies of construction materials, many jobs are contracted out to foreign firms. Project works will therefore include the following:

• construction and/or rehabilitattion of urban infrastructure such as markets, roads and sewerage systems;
• rehabilitation of an industrial brickyard for producing building materials locally;
• provision of a training and development component to assist local consultancy and construction firms, as well as SMEs; and
• expansion of the capacity of the Abdou Moumouni University in Niamey.