Revue Hybrides (May 2024)
Etude diagnostique participative du volontariat de développement : Réflexion pour la mise en place d’une stratégie nationale de la promotion du volontariat au Niger
Abstract
Since 1990, Niger has seen a meteoric rise in the number of national and international non-governmental organisations and development associations. These organisations operate in several fields and some of them use national or international volunteers to implement their development projects and programmes. However, it is difficult for the government to keep track of the organisations that use volunteers. The general objective of this research is to show the importance of carrying out a diagnostic study of the structures using the missions of voluntary service in order to know the field, the zone and the strategies of intervention so that the Nigerien Agency of Voluntary service for the Development (ANVD) takes into account all these achèvements in order to work out a national strategy of the promotion of voluntary service. This is based on the assumption that a diagnosis of volunteering is the appropriate approach for the ANVD to identify all those involved in volunteering and to draw up a national volunteering strategy for Niger. On the basis of a mixed study, the diagnostic study took place from 16 to 26 January 2022 and involved 105 structures using volunteer missions and around thirty interviews carried out nationwide. At the end of this study, the results revealed a multitude of national and international organisations and associations working in various fields such as health, education, migration, climate change, concerted management of natural resources by users, etc., all of which contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals but are not covered by the ANVD. Thus, the results of this diagnostic study are the first basic reflections allowing the elaboration of a national strategy for the promotion of volunteering in Niger.
