Highlights
Food security analysis raises concern
Schools reopen as IDPs are moved
Working towards greater access to communities in need of humanitarian assistance
Figures
#\ people in need of humanitarian assistance 7m
#\ IDPs 2.4m #\ of people facing acute food insecurity 4.5m
#\ severe acute malnourished children in Borno State 244,000
#\ in Borno State in need of food assistance 550,000
#\ of refugees who have crossed into Cameroon, Chad and Niger 187,126
Funding
279 million requested (US$)
36.7% funded (as of 31 August 2016)
Concerns as the latest food security analysis is released'
Across Nigeria‟s north-east almost 4.5 million people face acute food insecurity and require immediate assistance, according to the latest Cadre Harmonisé analysis, released on 19 August.
There are 65,000 individuals in Phase 5 (famine) from different Local Government Authorities (LGAs) in Borno and Yobe states. While these numbers are significant they do not meet the 20 per cent minimum of a given population for declaring a specific area to be under Phase 5.
More than 1 million people in three of Nigeria‟s northeast states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe are in Phase 4 (emergency), while about 3.3 million are in Phase 3 (crisis). The 7-year conflict has devastated food production, leaving upwards of 5 million people in urgent need of food assistance.
Given the severity of the situation and the windows of opportunity offered by access to newly accessible areas, immediate action and funding is required to rapidly restore food security and tackle severe hunger and malnutrition.
IDPs moved to allow schools reopen
At the height of the conflict wreaked by Boko Haram more than 1.5 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) descended on Maiduguri, Borno‟s state capital, pushing the population from 1 million to 2.5 million. Up to 90 per cent were subsumed into the community and the remainder moved into ad hoc and governmentrun camps. The huge numbers placed a great strain on infrastructure and schools were taken over to house displaced families in an effort to provide some form of shelter. This resulted in the schools‟ closure and negatively affected education for the children of Maiduguri.
On 22 August, 23,410 IDPs were relocated to new sites in Bakassi and Dalori IDP camps in Maiduguri. Families that were separated for nearly a year were re-unified from different camps and are living in household shelters at the new sites. The last group of IDPs in the Arabic Teaching Centre Camp will be relocated to Bakassi in early September, after the completion of WASH facilities construction.
The IDPs relocated from schools and other government institutions to pave way for the reopening of educational institutions closed for more than two years due to increased Boko Haram attacks in the city. In October 2015, the state government constituted a 'High Powered Committee' (HPC), tasked with the responsibility of facilitating the reopening of schools in Maiduguri.
Coordinating IDP movement
Planning and response of the relocation exercises was coordinated jointly with the HPC and OCHA ensuring adherence to the global relocation guidelines. OCHA also mobilised funding from CERF for the construction of shelters and WASH facilities at the new sites. The pilot phase of the relocation started on 15 February 2016, when IDPs in Yerwa Camp were relocated to Dalori 1 Camp in Maiduguri. The ICRC constructed temporary shelters in Dalori 1 and 2, while NGOs and UN agencies constructed temporary shelters and WASH facilities in Bakassi Camp.
While the family reunification and shelter situations have been addressed at Bakassi and Dalori relocation sites, flooding due to heavy rain fall remains a major challenge in Bakassi camp. However, CCCM/Shelter & NFIs and WASH Sectors are working to address the problem by constructing more adequate drainage in the camp.