ONG Femmes, Actions et Développement (FAD)

What ONG Femmes, Actions et Développement (FAD) does

ONG Femmes, Actions et Développement (FAD) is a Niger-based non-governmental organization founded in 2009 and legally authorized to operate in Niger since April 23, 2010. It is a women-led initiative headquartered in Niamey with regional offices in Maradi and Tillabéri, deploying 62 staff across programs in all eight regions of Niger. FAD's mission is to defend, protect, and empower women and girls through Sustainable Development Goal-aligned interventions.

FAD delivers its impact through five programmatic pillars: Education (girls' schooling and prevention of early/forced marriage), Political and Security Governance (women's political participation and peacebuilding), Health and GBV (sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence response), Economic Empowerment (financial autonomy and climate resilience), and a cross-cutting Humanitarian pillar. Flagship offerings include the Programme des Émissaires du Genre (a three-month annual gender ambassador training pipeline launched September 2023) and the Bénévoles Scolaires (school volunteer program). Between 2021 and 2023, FAD executed 35 projects affecting thousands of beneficiaries, including 13 women elected to local office via the KAGALO project and 18 micro-projects funded through the Spotlight Initiative with UN Women.

FAD's business model is non-commercial project funding: it does not sell products or services but is financed through grants and consortium positions with international donors and UN agencies (UN Women, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNDP, UN PBF, USAID, NORAD, AFD, Global Affairs Canada, AWDF) and through partnerships with international NGOs (CARE, Counterpart, Save the Children, Oxfam, Equipop, IDLO, PUI, CECI, Search for Common Ground, Plan Niger, Swisscontact, Enabel). No revenue is publicly disclosed; pricing is not applicable in the commercial sense.

Name

ONG Femmes, Actions et Développement (FAD)

Legal name

ONG Femmes, Actions et Développement (FAD)

Website

https://ongfad.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

ONG Femmes, Actions et Développement (FAD) is a Niamey-headquartered Nigerien women's rights NGO, legally authorized since 2010, that implements donor-funded programs across education, political/security governance, health/GBV, economic empowerment, and humanitarian response for women and girls across all eight regions of Niger.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Non-profit women's rights and development program implementation

NAICS

Administration of Public Health Programs (923120)

SIC

Services-Management Services (8741)

akta.pro primary industry

Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus & Resilience Programming (BPADAEAK)

Keywords

• Women empowerment programs
• Gender equality advocacy
• Humanitarian project implementation
• Civil society capacity building
• Community development services

Headquarters

HQ city

Niamey

HQ country

Niger

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Project Funding / Donor Grants: ONG FAD operates as a non-profit organization that receives funding from international donors, development agencies, UN agencies, and bilateral/multilateral partners to implement development and humanitarian projects focused on women's empowerment, governance, health, education, and protection.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

ONG FAD is a women-led non-governmental organization that designs and implements community-based programs promoting the protection, empowerment, and rights of women and girls across Niger. Its work spans five programmatic pillars — Education, Political & Security Governance, Health/GBV, Economic Empowerment, and cross-cutting Humanitarian response — delivered through direct field operations, capacity-building for civil society organizations, and flagship initiatives such as the Émissaires de Genre training program.

Product overview

ONG Femmes, Actions et Développement (FAD) is a women's rights and development NGO operating as a program-based organization rather than a technology company. Its portfolio consists of five interconnected programmatic pillars: Education (focused on girl child schooling and preventing early marriage), Political & Security Governance (promoting women's participation in politics and peace processes), Health/GBV (addressing sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence), Economic Empowerment (building women's financial autonomy and climate resilience), and Humanitarian response (cross-cutting emergency interventions). Key flagship initiatives include the Programme des Emissaires du Genre (a 3-month gender ambassador training program) and the Bénévoles Scolaires (school volunteer program). FAD implements projects across all 8 regions of Niger through partnerships with international donors and UN agencies.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Programme des Émissaires du Genre: An innovative program that produces Gender and Social Inclusion Ambassadors, conducted over 3 months each year, launched on September 19, 2023.
• Bénévoles scolaires

Products and services

• Programme des Émissaires de Genre (Gender Ambassadors Program) Three-month annual training program for youth aged 18-30 producing Gender Ambassadors equipped in leadership, governance, project management, and social inclusion to serve as agents of change for gender equality in Niger.
• Bénévoles Scolaires (School Volunteers Program) Annual one-month volunteer program that promotes youth education, girl child schooling, and psychosocial strengthening through capacity-building on children's rights and duties, leadership, public speaking, and hygiene.
• Volet Éducation (Education Pillar) Programmatic pillar focused on promoting girl child schooling and retention and combating early and forced marriage, with the specific objective of strengthening the schooling and retention of girls in school.
• Volet Gouvernance Politique & Sécuritaire (Political & Security Governance Pillar) Programmatic pillar covering two themes: Political Governance (women's political participation) and Security Governance (women's participation in conflict-related decision-making and management).
• Volet Santé / VBG (Health and Gender-Based Violence Pillar) Programmatic pillar covering sexual and reproductive health for adolescents and youth, and gender-based violence response through listening, referral, and follow-up of reported violence cases.
• Volet Autonomisation (Economic Empowerment Pillar) Programmatic pillar supporting women in achieving financial autonomy and resilience to climate change, with the specific objective of strengthening the economic power of women and girls.
• Volet Humanitaire (Humanitarian Pillar) Cross-cutting pillar that intervenes across all other domains to address emergency humanitarian needs in Niger's crisis-affected regions, including displaced populations and host communities.

Quantifiable outcome

• 35 projects implemented between 2021-2023 impacting thousands across all 8 regions of Niger
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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Partnerships

17 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• ONU Femmes (UN Women)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerKey strategic partner supporting women, peace and security initiatives including GPI 2.0 project for accelerating WPS agenda implementation in Tahoua and Zinder regions. Supported micro-project program to strengthen women's rights organizations.
• UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerImplementing partner for peacebuilding and resilience projects in Diffa, Tahoua regions. Supports humanitarian response and women's empowerment programming.
• UNICEFcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner for child protection, education, and health programs including Education Cannot Wait (ECW) initiative for children affected by crises.
• PNUD (UNDP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUN development partner supporting democratic governance and women's participation in development processes.
• CARE InternationalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLead agency for 'Powered by Women' project in consortium with FAD, funded by NORAD, focusing on women's economic empowerment in Tahoua and Maradi.
• Plan NigercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerImplementing partner for NRK Telethon Child Not Bride project addressing early marriage and promoting girls' education.
• Save the ChildrencoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerImplementing partner for education and protection projects including PACEEAC Niger (Education Cannot Wait) and Wandiyaye Jindan project.
• Oxfam NigercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in development and humanitarian interventions supporting women's empowerment and resilience programs.
• Counterpart InternationalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerImplemented KAGALO project (2019-2022) promoting women's leadership in Tillabéry region, resulting in 13 elected women.
• EquipopcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerImplementing partner for 'FEMINISTES, PAIX ET SECURITE' project funded by AFD supporting women in peace and security processes.
• Search for Common GroundcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in conflict prevention and peacebuilding initiatives supporting women's participation.
• SFCG (Search for Common Ground)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerImplementing 'Matta Da Halitta' project on women and natural resources.
• IDLO (International Development Law Organization)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerImplementing partner for legal empowerment of women and girls in Tillabéry region.
• SwisscontactminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSwiss development organization partner in economic empowerment initiatives.
• Enabel (Belgian Development Agency)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBelgian development agency partner in various development interventions.
• PUI (Premiere Urgence Internationale)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerImplementing partner for multisectoral humanitarian response in Tillabéri region for host populations and displaced persons.
• CECI (Centre d'Etude et de Coopération Internationale)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerImplementing 'Adapt-Eco BD' project on climate-adaptive economic empowerment.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Counterpart International: Implemented the KAGALO project (2019-2022) that delivered 13 elected women in Tillabéri — directly comparable women's political participation programming in the same regions FAD serves.
• Equipop: Implementing partner on the AFD-funded "FÉMINISTES, PAIX ET SÉCURITÉ" project — direct counterpart on feminist WPS programming in West Africa and the Sahel, sharing the same French-bilateral donor base and policy-advocacy model.
• Oxfam Niger: Partner on development and humanitarian interventions supporting women's empowerment and resilience. Covers overlapping women's economic empowerment and humanitarian response portfolios in the same Nigerien regions.
• International Development Law Organization (IDLO): Implementing partner on legal empowerment of women and girls in Tillabéri. Highly comparable niche focus on women's access to justice and rights-based programming in FAD's core region.
• CARE International (Niger): Lead consortium partner on the NORAD-funded "Powered by Women" project in Tahoua and Maradi. Same women's empowerment / WASH / governance thematic focus, same target regions in Niger, and same bilateral/multi-donor funding base — making CARE the most directly comparable peer.
• Search for Common Ground (SFCG): Partner on the "Matta Da Halitta" project on women and natural resources. Operates in overlapping conflict-affected regions of Niger with WPS and conflict-prevention programming comparable to FAD's Governance pillar.
• Save the Children (Niger): Implementing partner on Education Cannot Wait (ECW/PACEEAC) and Wandiyaye Jindan projects. Shares FAD's focus on education-in-emergencies, child protection, and adolescent SRH, and channels GAC funding through consortium structures where FAD is a sub.
• Plan International Niger: Co-implementer on the NRK Telethon Child Not Bride project addressing early marriage and girls' schooling — FAD's flagship Education pillar. Operates in the same regions of Niger on overlapping girls' rights and child protection agendas.

Broad incumbents

• UN Women (Niger Country Office): Core strategic partner supporting GPI 2.0 and micro-project funding. While a UN agency rather than an NGO, UN Women is the principal convener of the WPS/GBV agenda that FAD operates in — shaping both the funding envelope and the technical standards FAD must meet.
• UNFPA Niger: Implementing partner on peacebuilding and resilience in Diffa and Tahoua. UNFPA funds and co-designs much of the SRH and GBV programming FAD delivers, making it the dominant counterpart for FAD's Health/GBV pillar.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ongfadniger

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Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

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