USAID Kulawa Project – Baseline Report

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Kulawa project (meaning “to care for” in Hausa) is a five-year (2020-2025) initiative to support the Government of Niger in improving health, family planning (FP), and nutrition outcomes in Maradi, Zinder, and Tillabéri regions. In collaboration with the MOPH/P/SA, Save the Children (SC) leads USAID Kulawa with partners Pathfinder International, PRONTO International, and Viamo, and works in partnership with local government, national non-governmental organizations (NNGOs), and beneficiary communities. In order to establish the baseline situation of the project in the communities of intervention, this assessment was conducted by GRADE Africa in the three regions of project intervention (Maradi, Tillabéri and Zinder) complements the first study conducted in 2021 to establish the baseline. This report presents the main results and findings of this evaluation. The main objective of this study is to establish the reference levels of specific project indicators not covered by the first study. This will allow the project team to be able to ensure or adjust the targeting, to measure the changes linked to the interventions and to highlight the potential for project integration, sustainability and scaling up.