UN Inaugurates 2022 Humanitarian Response Plan For Niger

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The Government of Niger and the humanitarian community have inaugurated the country’s 2022 Humanitarian Response Plan and the Government’s national plan to support vulnerable populations.

The Humanitarian Response Plan will prioritise food security, nutrition, protection, and education, according to UN Spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, briefing journalists in New York.

“The Humanitarian Response Plan seeks 553 million dollars to help 2.3 million people, including those internally displaced, returnees, refugees, and vulnerable people living in host communities.’’

Dujarric said Niger could face a serious food crisis in 2022, due to a combination of poor weather conditions, as well as the destruction of livelihoods due to insecurity.

“That insecurity is especially [serious]in the border regions of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Nigeria, which has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes.

“More than half a million people are forcefully displaced, including 264,000 internally displaced people.

“More than 60,000 children have been deprived of their right to education following the closure of over 700 schools due to insecurity,’’ he said.

According to him, inspite of growing restrictions on humanitarian space and funding shortfalls, humanitarian partners assisted 1.4 million people out of 2.1 million people targeted in 2021.

He said humanitarian response plan was only 42 per cent funded in 2021.

The UN correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the humanitarian community and government had on Feb. 9 inaugurated the 2022 Humanitarian Response Plan for the north-eastern part of Nigeria.

According to Dujarric, the plan needs 1.1 billion dollars to provide critical aid and services to 5.5 million people impacted by the conflict in Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe states.

“An estimated 8.4 million people require humanitarian assistance in Nigeria in 2022 and over 2.2 million people are displaced, facing daily threats to their health, food security and safety.

“In 2021, the humanitarian community and our partners assisted close to five million people, with 1.8 million receiving critical protection services and 1.3 million benefiting from nutritional support.’’

 

 

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