Abdoulkader (Kader) Issoufou has worked with NGOs (Care, Save the Children, Spanish Action Against Hunger, and Tassa) in Niger in addressing food insecurity, malnutrition, health, and community mobilization. He started working with United Nations World Food Programme where his experience covers the domains of Rural development, resilience, and cash transfer. Using a watershed management approach, his work also covered other activities of land restoration, such as Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration and sand dunes fixation, etc.
As a trained Geographer and certified on Sustainable Environmental Management by the University of California Berkeley, he is qualified to lead land restoration activities and integrated water resources management.
In his social life, Abdoulkader is member of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) and is involved in discussions in the issues of Lake Chad with Mega-Chad. He wrote a paper for Water Quality and Sediment Behaviour of the Future: Predictions for the 21st Century (Proceedings of Symposium HS2005 at IUGG2007, Perugia, July 2007) titled “Runoff erosion control for a sustainable water supply in Niamey, Niger Republic” published in the IAHS Publ. 314, 2007, 293-299.
Abdoulkader is also involved with other leaders trained by OASIS Initiative in developing Population-Health-Environment (PHE) strategy in addressing Sahel challenges.