Niger

February 2024

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Executive Summary

Niger has ratified the United Nations Convention against Corruption and other regional conventions that commit it to incorporate tools to combat financial crime into its legislation, particularly in favour of protecting whistleblowers. However, to date, no Nigerien text explicitly refers to whistleblowing.

On the other hand, Niger has adopted a number of legislative provisions to combat financial crime and has set up bodies to monitor and combat it. Despite these advancements, financial crime, including corruption, seems to persist. 

Freedom of expression and media rights are regularly restricted in Niger. This is now a major challenge for the country in a security context marked by political instability and the fight against terrorism.

Knowledge, Support, and Action Centres

The Collective of Human Rights and Democracy Defense Organisations (CODDHD) is a group of organisations whose aim is to protect, promote and defend human rights and democracy in Niger. CODDHD strives to combat degrading and humiliating social practices, impunity and corruption. The collective is made up of more than 44 associations and organisations.

The actions of this collective consist of organising national and international meetings, conducting training sessions on civil and political rights in schools, and organising public conferences and seminars.

The Network of Organisations for Transparency and Budget Analysis (ROTAB Niger) is a collective of organisations, NGOs, and unions that have decided to pool their expertise to participate in the global campaign “Publish What You Pay”; this initiative is based on transparency in the extractive industry.

Among other things, the collective is working to promote transparency and good governance throughout the chain of activities related to the extractive industries and to influence, in favour of the people, the national policies and laws drawn up and implemented by the government in this area. The overall objective is to promote real transparency in this sector to contribute to the consolidation of democracy and good governance.

There is also the Nigerien Association for the Fight Against Corruption (ANLC), which is a non-political, non-profit association established in 2001. Its main objective is to fight against corruption by promoting reforms aimed at transparency in public and private management, committing to denounce and combat any act of corruption it becomes aware of in public and private management, and the emergence of an ethic aimed at promoting the moral integrity of citizens.

The association’s activities include producing reports, observing elections, raising awareness of corruption in electoral matters and investigating corruption. It has regional branches and its actions are relayed at the local level by anti-corruption clubs.

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