New Energy for Work (NEPIL)

About this project

The NEPIL project intervenes on urban and peri-urban areas in the municipalities of Niamey and Agadez to support, through professionalizing training paths, employment development and business creation. Technical training (theoretical and practical), support in terms of equipment, equipment and endowments, and technical accompaniment that the partnership can provide, are the tools used to achieve concrete spin-offs in terms of employment outlets in the sectors of renewable energy and appropriate-applied solar technologies, business management, and the agri-food supply chain with the intention of fostering in parallel the promotion of innovation processes for green smart cities and inclusive urban communities. Specifically, the program plans to deliver technical trainings and support both existing entrepreneurial realities (MPEs pre-identified in the proposal development phase with the help of local partners) and new collective and individual startup MPEs that meet market needs to: -strengthen, on the one hand, the presence in the markets of MPEs that, given the current situation of the country context (post-emergency Covid, increase in the cost of raw materials resulting from the conflict in Ukraine and change in the political-institutional set-up resulting in the suspension of state aid guaranteed by historical PTFs and actual contraction of markets to local consumption) are likely to contract with consequent loss of jobs for those employed; - initiate new entrepreneurial re…

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 4Quality Education
• 8Decent Work and Economic Growth

Published by

AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development · Government

Countries

Niger

Sectors

Vocational trainingEmployment creation

Focus

Gender equality · Also contributesEnvironment · Also contributesGood governance · Also contributesClimate mitigation · Also contributesDesertification · Also contributes

Funded by

AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development

Implemented by

TERRE SOLIDALI ONLUS

Accountable

AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development

Published by AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 23 Jan 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-6-4-013244-05-9.

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