Barriers of Integrated Management of Natural Disasters for the Resilience in Niger

The natural hazards and their impacts on populations, property and environment can vary over time and space. Thus, a prevention and risk management system has been implemented to increase the community resilience to natural disasters worldwide. However, the implementation of this system in Niger Republic is hindered by several barriers. The objective of this study is to analyse the barriers of integration of the risk management system in order to increase the resilience of populations while preserving the achievements. This study used the mixed methods which included qualitative description with phenomenological and participatory approaches. Thus, the semi structured interviews from thirty (30) institutions involved in disasters management at national level, the field observations and contents analysis are used. The results revealed that although the awareness among the authorities and existence of structures and tools for early warning, assessment and emergency response, there is a lack of support from a “common and integrated global vision’’ at the stakeholder level. They revealed also that the insufficient resources and training of actors hamper the effective functionality of the platform for the prevention and reduction of disaster risk. In this regards, the efforts should be made to allocate resources for the prevention, preparation and communication to the public. Given the accountability of the state, mechanism to measure progress made in terms of resilience should be also created in a consensual manner.