Niger

Niger introduced family allowances and sickness and maternity laws before independence in 1960, while laws on work injury and old age, disability and survivors were introduced after independence. In 2011, Niger introduced a social assistance programme named the Filet de Protection Sociale (Niger Safety Net Project). The programme, which aimed to to address food insecurity before it ended in 2019, had two components:  food security; and cash for work. The former component transferred a monthly cash amount of US$45 to participating households and the latter provides a daily cash transfer of US$4.67. Social assistance expenditure was 0.14 percent of GDP in 2016, translating to social assistance spending of US$1.14 per poor person per year.