United Nations
humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien has released
US$13 million from the Central Emergency
Response Fund (CERF) to provide life-saving
assistance to 250,000 people in areas of north-
east Nigeria that have just become accessible.
The destruction of crops and looting of livestock
have left many people unable to support their
families. More than 50,000 people need seeds
and tools for the upcoming planting season and
CERF funding will help them to rebuild their
livelihoods. A significant number of women and
girls, and also men and boys, have suffered or
witnessed terrible abuses; CERF funds will enable
humanitarian partners to provide critical
psychosocial support and protection services.
“People have experienced unspeakable suffering
due to the violence perpetrated by Boko Haram.
We now have better access finally, and a chance
to help them,” said Under-Secretary-General for
Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief
Coordinator, Stephen O’Brien. “The international
community must take advantage of this opening
to reach people with essential services and build
on the CERF allocation to scale up the response”.
CERF funds will support the provision of food,
cash for food purchase, special child nutritional
supplements, protection and health services to
the most vulnerable people in the newly
accessible areas through disbursements to FAO,
UNDSS, UNFPA, UNHAS, UNHCR, UNICEF and
WFP.
“The humanitarian crisis in north-east Nigeria is
massive and alarming: 15 million people are
affected by the violence instigated by Boko
Haram including 7 million people who need
urgent humanitarian assistance,” said Munir
Safieldin, the acting Humanitarian Coordinator.
“Unless we scale up now, 7 to 8 children will die
of severe acute malnutrition every hour; 184
children will die every day. We need resources
now to scale up our current response”.
The Humanitarian Response Plan for Nigeria was
revised upwards by $51 million in June and is
now calling for $279 million. To date, it is only 22
per cent funded.
Since 2015, CERF has supported life-saving
assistance in response to Boko Haram-related
violence with more than $58 million, bringing the
total CERF support to more than $70 million with
this new injection of funds. Some $27 million was
allocated in March 2015 to assist more than 1.6
million internally displaced people, refugees,
returnees and host communities in Cameroon,
Chad, Niger and Nigeria. An additional $31 million
was provided in early 2016 to help 700,000
people in the Lake Chad Basin.
CERF is a pooled fund that supports rapid
humanitarian response. Donors preposition funds
with CERF so that money is available immediately
to kick-start relief operations in new emergencies
and to provide live-saving assistance in crises that
are underfunded. At mid-year, donors have
contributed $248 million to CERF for 2016 and
CERF has allocated nearly the same amount,
responding to high demand from humanitarian
partners. New contributions are urgently needed.
UN Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs:

sanandreas:
Is the money free and how is Nigeria paying back? The truth is the victims of this insurgency partly played a role in sustaining Bokoharam dominance.

fulanimafia:


Really? Do you realize a large number of the IDP's are Christians? Do you realize Chibok was a Christian community? So Christians played a role in sustaining BH?

Just keep quiet if you've got nothing better to say beyond wicked and baseless propaganda.

sanandreas:
those hijabian gals Na Christain ba?