Niger: Country Launches $23 Million Millennium Challenge Threshold Program to Promote Girls? Education, Combat Corruption, Reduce Red Tape

Millennium Challenge Corporation (Washington, DC)

18 March 2008

Nigerien Prime Minister Seini Oumarou and Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Deputy CEO Rodney Bent today officiated at the signing of a $23 million threshold program. Minister of Finance Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine and USAID West Africa Mission Director Henderson Patrick signed the agreement. The three-year program focuses on bolstering girls’ education, reducing public corruption, ...