Satisfaction is greater in Tahoua (81%) than in Zinder (70%). In Zinder, criticisms mainly concern the quality of training, the lack of follow-up after the programme and insufficient funding. The Tahoua model, which is based on training and entrepreneurial support, seems to better meet the needs of economic sustainability (41% of participants in Tahoua received support compared to 23% in Zinder). In Zinder, the predominance of financial aid without sufficient supervision limits the expected positive effects (63% of participants in Zinder received financial aid compared to 44% in Tahoua).
The data highlights the urgent need to strengthen dialogue, simplify procedures, and establish microfinance schemes tailored to returning migrants. Better local governance of resources generated by migration is essential to transform individual contributions into a real lever for the sustainable development of the Tahoua and Zinder communities.
The money is there. The will is there. What remains missing is an effective mechanism. For migrant remittances to move beyond serving as a social safety net and begin fuelling sustainable economic growth, families cannot shoulder the burden alone. Without a substantial reduction in transfer costs and the creation of a genuinely investment-friendly environment, this financial inflow will continue to dissipate in the immediacy of daily needs.
The responsibility now rests with public authorities to transform family solidarity into a structured engine of national development, before the resilience it sustains is gradually eroded by the very precarity it is meant to offset.