The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) has disclosed that humanitarian organizations have provided agricultural and livelihood support to more than 2.8 million displaced persons in North-east in the past six months.
It said in its Humanitarian Situation Report for June that the beneficiaries that were drawn from Adamawa, Borno and Yobe were provided with food items, seeds, fertilizers and other farm inputs, to enable the people resume their normal lives.
The report showed that about two million displaced persons were supported with food intervention in the period under the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP).
“Over 2.8 million people have been supported with food security interventions as part of the 2018 HRP, two third of whom were supported with food and the remainder with agricultural and livelihood assistance since January.
“The government also continued to provide assistance in the form of cereal and condiments in selected locations,” the UN agency said.
It said humanitarian actors had started distributing double ration food to displaced persons at Rann in Kala-Balge local government area of Borno as the office anticipated that the area might not be accessible due to incessant flooding.
It added that about 300 fuel-efficient stoves were distributed to vulnerable households at Bakasi Internally Displaced People’s (IDPs) camp in Maiduguri, noting that the stoves were produced in collaboration with the Borno state Ministry of Environment.
“Due to recent food security-related protection risks in Dikwa, partners are scaling up the distribution of fuel-efficient stoves as well as advocacy with the military to increase the frequency of military escort and expand the security perimeter for firewood collection.
“As the lean season begins in July, it is anticipated that most households will resort to purchasing their food in the markets, increasing to high demand and hike in prices, thereby, reducing households’ purchasing power,” it noted.