Summary of major revisions made to emergency plan of action:
With this 12-month update, the Emergency Appeal will be extended for an additional six months until June 2016. The current budget of CHF 851,786 for 50,000 beneficiaries remains the same. The need for the extension is due to repeated attacks throughout the Diffa region that keeps the region in a constant state of emergency, interfering with the launching of any recovery activities. Considering the current situation, the emergency relief needs are still high, as newly-affected internally displaced populations continue to occur. The sectors of intervention remain the same, but the villages of intervention may vary.
The appeal coverage is CHF 677,941 . The Niger Red Cross Society (NRCS) further appeals to partners to cover the funding gap of CHF 173,841 in order to continue its support to 50,000 beneficiaries in the areas of health and care; water, sanitation and hygiene promotion; food security, nutrition and livelihoods; shelter and non-food items; as well as National Society capacity building.
A. Situation analysis
Description of the disaster
Since the beginning of the conflict in the northern part of Nigeria, Diffa region has been the main destination of the population movement from Nigeria. As of October 2015, a total of 105,000 people have been reported to cross the border and search refuge in Diffa region. However this conflict has extended to Diffa and created internally displacements of the population (both refugees and host population). As of the time of this update, many had been displaced more than 5 times this year.
Up to end of October, a total of 57 attacks and 4 mine bomb explosions have been recorded in 31 villages. These villages are Maine Soroa, N’Gourtoua, Gaidam, Chetimari, Bagara, Diffa, Assaga, Dewa, Boulamare, Boulayi, N’Goumaou, Lamana, Djaballam, Fedega, Dagaya, Djaboullam, Rillé, Abadam, N’gourgouran, Bosso, Mamouri, Yebi, Karmga, Lellewa, Koui Klewa, Tchoukoundjani, Baroua, Tchougoundi, Boki Bari, Ari Koukouri. More than 47.000 persons have been forced to displace from those villages to new sites. The main needs remain food and non-food assistance, health, water, hygiene and sanitation, livelihoods ad social cohesion.
The population movements deepened the food and nutrition insecurity. From the beginning of the situation, most of the displaced persons (refugees and returnees) were hosted by families in communities.
Others went to the islands of Lake Chad for economic potentialities (fishery). Hence, due to security reasons, some regions have not grown during the last agriculture season. Even for those who were able to plant, the production was below expectation due to lack of enough rain. Moreover, fishing in the Lake Chad and from Komadougou river and pepper growing, an important household income, have been prohibited due to insecurity. Other main sources of income for the majority of the youth (using motorbikes, trans bordering business, etc. have been also forced to stop. As a result, the population has been depending on emergency assistance all along this year.
According to the Niger Government in August 2015, there were 95,343 Nigerians Refugees (among them only 5,000 were living in Sayam Forage Camp and the rest in the community),72,549 Nigeriens returnees, and 47,023 Internally Displaced People. Following the last attack in Ngourtoua in September 24th more than 12,000 persons were also displaced.