Illimin Programme

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

Illimin is a programme to delay early marriage and pregnancy among adolescent girls, offers lessons on life skills and reproductive health in safe spaces set up in Sayam Forage and Kablewa refugee camps in Niger.

To date, the Illimin programme has enabled more than 150,000 adolescent girls, including 45,000 girls supported by the Global Programme, to acquire knowledge, skills and attitudes to say no to child marriage in order to develop their full potential and participate fully in the development of their community. The programme has also promoted community dialogues to induce change and adoption of positive attitudes and behaviors towards investing in and supporting adolescent girls. These dialogues, which have reached nearly 350,000 Nigeriens, are organized around traditional chiefs, religious leaders and other power holders with the effective participation of adolescent girls, young boys, and parents, on issues related to child marriage, girls' education, reproductive health etc.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Niger

Activity URL

https://www.unicef.org/media/88836/file/Child-marriage-Niger-profile-2019.pdf

Government Affiliation
Government-affiliated program
Years

Not applicable or unknown

Partner(s)

The Ministry for the Promotion of Women and the Protection of the Child

Ministry Affiliation
The Niger Ministry for the Promotion of Women and the Protection of the Child
Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response
Unknown
Geographic Scope
National
Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  
Unknown
Areas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Attainment
  • Secondary completion
  • Secondary Enrollment
Other skills
  • Life skills/sexuality education
Cross-cutting areas
  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Early/child marriage
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
Other populations reached
  • Community leaders
  • Religious leaders
Participants include
  • Adolescent mothers (pregnant or parenting)
Program Approaches Back to Top
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement
Life skills education
  • Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)
Social/gender norms change
  • Work with community leaders
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased years of schooling
Cross-cutting goals
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage
Additional Information Back to Top
Primary Contact
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)