{"id":161721,"date":"2016-09-21T18:05:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T18:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/africa\/too-little-for-too-much-in-nigerias-north-east\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T14:23:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T14:23:48","slug":"too-little-for-too-much-in-nigerias-north-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/africa\/stories\/too-little-for-too-much-in-nigerias-north-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Too little for Too much in Nigeria\u2019s North East"},"content":{"rendered":"

As global leaders meet in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, the scale of humanitarian assistance required in North East Nigeria and the Lake Chad region resulting from the Boko Haram insurgency needs urgent, high-level attention.<\/p>\n

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in August reported<\/a> that 7 million people in Nigeria are in need of humanitarian assistance. Of these, 5.5 million are in urgent\u00a0need of protection services (2.7 million for child protection and 1.5 million for Gender Based Violence). \u00a0 The situation is particularly dire in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states, where 4.4 million people are in urgent need of food assistance, with 2.5 million children under 5-years-old and pregnant and lactating women are\u00a0malnourished. The most recent number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) stands at 2.4 million, 1.9 million of which are in Adamawa, Borno, Gombe, and Yobe states. \u00a01 million IDP children do not have access to school, and\u00a019K teachers are displaced.<\/p>\n

When Bono,\u00a0Co-founder of ONE campaign,\u00a0was in Nigeria recently the country\u2019s Vice President stated<\/a> clearly that \u201cno matter how prepared a country could be, handling the kind of crisis in the North-east with two million displaced people including children would prove a difficult task.” We agree.<\/p>\n

Since January, donors in partnership with the government\u00a0have reached 2.4 million people with emergency primary health care in North-East Nigeria through an integrated package of nutrition, health and WASH. The Nigerian Government launched a quick response, releasing N9.8 billion in funding within a week and pledging six rounds of vaccinations in the most affected areas over the coming months.\u00a0 The government has also asked the World Bank for an additional $125 million loan for vaccines to fight the epidemic and other communicable diseases.<\/p>\n

The first round of vaccinations \u2013 which targeted 1 million children \u2013 will soon be completed with over 887,000 children under 5 already reached and subsequent large-scale rounds of polio immunization are planned to reach an additional 4.5 million in 5 NE States. Ultimately, the goal is to immunize over 56 million children by the end of November.<\/p>\n

Efforts are underway to reach 1.35 million people with emergency primary health care services and 250,000 children under 5, who are suffering from severe acute malnutrition, with therapeutic feeding programmes, which require urgent and coordinated multi sector strategies. The Dangote Foundation<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation<\/a>\u00a0have funded direct interventions with the Borno State Government focused on both immediate humanitarian assistance for IDPs and land, fertilizers and improved seeds so that returning communities can farm and support themselves.\u00a0De-mining efforts are also hugely important in order to make farmland safe for IDPs and returning citizens to cultivate.<\/p>\n

Despite those efforts, the scale of the humanitarian crisis in North East Nigeria is\u00a0comparable to South Sudan and Yemen<\/a>\u00a0with regards to the number of Internally Displaced Persons. The revised\u00a02016 funding overview as at September 13, 2016<\/a>\u00a0for Nigeria shows that US$484 million is needed for the Humanitarian Response\u00a0Plan, of which\u00a0only\u00a0US$108.8 million has been contributed so far.\u00a0\u00a0Due to the\u00a0worsening\u00a0situation in the Northeast,\u00a0UNICEF has recently\u00a0more than doubled\u00a0its Humanitarian Appeal for Children\u00a0to $115 million\u00a0but\u00a0has received only 25% of that appeal.<\/p>\n

In the long-term, donors and the Nigerian government will have to rebuild the\u00a0infrastructural,\u00a0educational, agricultural and health capacity of the region so people can gain a sustainable income and feed themselves. It is estimated that\u00a0US$9.2 billion<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>will need to be invested in peace building, infrastructure, social services, and economic recovery to rebuild northeast Nigeria.\u00a0The government\u00a0and international community must urgently partner to\u00a0rehabilitate and expand\u00a0irrigation infrastructure, earth dams, wells, buildings and other agricultural needs that are critical to the resilience of northeast Nigeria.\u00a0All these efforts need careful planning and transparent budgets, monitoring and evaluation, especially by citizens receiving the services so they can \u201cfollow the money\u201d and help ensure funds get where they are most needed.<\/p>\n

With time, continued security, close coordination at all levels of government, open government process,\u00a0and engagement by civilian, development, environment and health organizations, there is hope for northeast Nigeria\u00a0to overcome current challenges and once again drive the region forward.<\/p>\n

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