#Rebuildingborno : Japanese government awards N1.4bn grant for IDPs in North-East

Some IDPS Returning Home

The Japanese government has awarded a grant of US$4.5 million (N1.4 billion) to the United Nations Children’s Fund for the provision of life-saving emergency work to assist people affected and displaced by the conflict in the North-East.

The grant will cover assistance in the provision of water, sanitation and hygiene facilities; health, nutrition and child protection services and education and would focus primarily on assistance for children, with special attention given to populations trying to return to their communities which they were forced to flee by Boko Haram insurgents.

A statement by the UNICEF Chief of Communication in Nigeria, Doune Porter on Wednesday in Abuja, showed that the insurgency in the North-East had triggered major population movements, with most recent estimates of people displaced by the conflict in the four most severely-affected states at over 1.7 million – more than half of whom are children.