The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has lamented that 85 percent of fund needed for intervention in the crisis ravaged North East Nigeria in 2018 has not been raised two months to the end of the year.
The United Nations body in its September 2015 monthly situation report released to journalists on Wednesday, said out of the US$62.5 million needed for intervention in
North East Nigeria, a paltry US$3.3 million was raised, living a large amount of US$59.2 million needed to meet the target.
It lamented that 1.8 million persons have been displaced by the crisis in the North East with 190,000 newly-arrived IDPs and refugee returnees since November 2017.
UNHCR said that 5.8 million people are in dire need of protection assistance, with 2.7 million
people targeted for protection assistance but 1.8 million people reached so far.
It stated that the funding needs of the body until December 2018 is USD 62.5 million but lamented that the funding gap remains
US$59.2 million.
Part of it’s achievements, it claimed include: the establishment of two mobile courts in Bakassi and Gubio Road IDP camps, which give access to justice for persons of concern; and since the beginning of the year, more than 250 cases have been heard and determined.
The training of 20 Nigerian immigration officers from Borno state on registering refugee turnees, and working with Nigerian authorities to print and distribute 100,000 national ID cards to IDPs and refugee returnees.
The body revealed that to date, 30,000 IDs have been printed and 2,500 distributed across ten IDP camps in greater Maiduguri.
It also said at the Maiduguri Rehabilitation/Transit Centre, it has provided standard Core Relief Item kits to 214 children formerly associated with Non-State Armed Groups.
It said it has established a safe space in Dikwa local government area of Borno state to provide case management and psychosocial support to vulnerable women and girls, and that it has coordinated the development and submission of the Borno State Return Strategy to the Return Task Force.
It explained that the strategy aims to set minimum conditions for return for a safe, dignified, informed and voluntary return of displaced populations.
