The Federal
Government, the World Bank, European Union, and the United Nations have
concluded a two-week recovery and assessment mission in the Northeastern States
ravaged by insurgency as part of its on-going Recovery and Peace Building
Assessment (RPBA) programme.
Led by the
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Internally Displaced Persons
(IDPs), Dr. Mariam Masha, the recovery and assessment team visited Adamawa,
Taraba, Gombe, Bauchi, Borno and Yobe States during which the team actively
engaged with State Governors, decision-makers as well as top government
functionaries, Civil Society Organizations, Private Sector players, Traditional
Rulers, the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), Emergency Management,
Humanitarian and Relief agencies and other active partners in the recovery efforts in the affected States.
In the
course of the tour in the affected areas, the team of officials visited several
camps and resettlement centres for the IDPs in the different states as well as
insurgency –ravaged public institutions like hospitals, markets and military
formations.
The team
also gained firsthand knowledge of human and physical conditions in the camps
and resettlement centres affording them the opportunity to empathize with the
people and also reassured them of the commitment of the Buhari administration
towards addressing their challenges.
In
furtherance of the importance of the recovery and assessment mission, the
team's top level engagements with relevant stakeholders centred on sector
recovery and needs assessment strategy in the three major components of
Infrastructure and social services, peace building, stability and social
cohesion as well as the economic recovery of the affected people in the six
States.
The field
visit by the technical and humanitarian experts from these critical global
institutions primarily focused on validating the processes through which data
are to be collected and how to develop internationally acceptable mechanisms to
maintain contact with focal points in all the States.
It would be
recalled that the Federal Government had last month unveiled this assessment
programme which is a joint, high-level collaboration between the Government of
Nigeria and development partners - the World Bank, EU and the UN - aimed
at supporting Government in its short, medium and long term efforts towards
peace building and sustainable recovery in the North East region of the
country.
It is a
follow up to the agreements reached with the North-East states in respect of
the sector and component work plans, data collection modalities and timelines
and provision of quantitative and qualitative information by the States.
This
assessment will also form the pivot for planning a broad-based public sector
recovery programme for the NE, as well as leverage, synchronize and inform the
financing initiatives and projects of Nigeria’s development partners, civil
society organizations and private sector groups and organisations.
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