Joint Assessment to the Northeast:

Preliminary Findings

Mission

•6 Teams

•Mission Deployment 6-22 May

•Visits to 6 States, 25 LGAs, 107 communities

•States visited include: Borno, Yobe, Adamwa, Taraba, Gombe, and Bauchi.

1. Estimate the number of IDPs

2. Identify where they live

3. Determine level of access to basic needs

4. Assess gaps in services & relief provided to IDPs

5. Establish identities of humanitarian actors on the ground

6. Explore opportunities for strengthening capacity of state governments and local partners to monitor displacement and to report, assess, and coordinate delivery of relief

7. Identify the most effective approaches to delivering relief to IDPs in the states.

Objectives

• Overall Coordination: UN OCHA

• Technical Support: UNICEF with 2 day pre-mission ToTs of over 50 participants

• Participation from: SEMA, State Ministries, Nigerian Red Cross, UNHCR,UNFPA, FAO, UNDP, IOM, ACF & SCI, University of Maiduguri

Coordination

• Questionnaires

• Key Informants Interviews

• Focused Group Discussions

• Direct Observation & Mapping

• Use of GPS-Enabled Smartphones to capture and transmit real-time data to remote data center for fast analysis and location validation

Tools

StateNEMA March 2014 Assessment

No. IDPs (other sources)No. IDPS(May 2014 Assessment)

No. Host Communities

No. Affected LGAs

Yobe 76,354 N/A 76,354 38 8

Borno 106,266 196,337 (NCFR) 257,694 84 27

Adamawa 66,826 N/A102,560

 14 4

Bauchi N/A36,732SEMA (Mar. 2014 )

88,570  

3 9

Taraba 

N/A28,510 SEMA; 15,000 Red Cross (May);

108,515 

38 16

Gombe N/A

7,630 Registered IDPs, SEMA; 8,000 Red Cross; 7,500 Ministry of Agric; 6,390 Care for Life

13,000  

24 5

TOTAL 249,446 269,209 646,693 201 69

Summary of IDP population estimates 

Findings: IDPs

• 90% of IDPs hosted by families and friends

• Rapid movement to perceived safe zones

• Assessment Fatigue: inadequate response following past assessments

• Displacement induced by combination of insurgency and inter-communal violence

Findings: Host Families, etc.

Priority needs of IDPs in Living with households

1 Security, Protection andFood security

2 Healthcare (Including Psychosocial support)

3 Livelihoods/Microfinance4 Shelter/NFIs5 WASH7 Emergency Education

Findings: Priority Needs, overall

Analysis of Smartphone Data for:

• Identify gaps in level of access to services

• Location and Mapping of IDP Sites

• Triangulation of data (with FGD &KII info)

• Partnership opportunities

• Effective means of humanitarian response

Final Report: end of June

Outstanding Information

Summary of SRP Projects targeted at the North East

Cluster Organizations Total Amount Request (USD)

COORDINATION AND SUPPORT SERVICES

OCHA, IOM, OXFAM, WANEP

5,654,903

EARLY RECOVERY UNDP 5,635,000

EDUCATION UNICEF 4,606,253

EMERGENCY SHELTER AND NFI

IOM 3,150,000

FOOD SECURITYACF - USA, CCFN, FAO, OXFAM

7,478,211

HEALTH UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO 13,961,322

NUTRITION IRC 2,333,666

PROTECTION IRC, UNICEF 1,926,982

WATER AND SANITATIONCCFN, IRC, OXFAM, UNICEF, WaterAid

8,356,251

TOTAL AMOUNT 53,102,588

Questions?

Why has the SRP not been supported?

What can we do to rally support for the SRP?

Thank you