Nigeria

Violence & Climate Shocks

Poverty, conflict and climate shocks are driving over 25 million people in Nigeria into acute levels of hunger.
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14 Years of Conflict

In northeast Nigeria, conflict has displaced 2.2 million people from their homes and pushed over 4 million people into severe levels of hunger. Attacks by armed groups have forced people from their homes and hampered humanitarian access.

Triple Threats: Conflict, Insecurity and Coronavirus

Meeting the Challenge

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) uses smart, innovative solutions to support Nigerian families across the region. These innovations include livelihood programs, SCOPE registration, truck convoys and UNHAS.
Nigeria, Monguno, 21 January 2017

Coupled with the existing challenges of extreme poverty, underdevelopment and climate change in the Lake Chad region, Boko Haram violence has led to one of the most acute and sorely neglected humanitarian crises in the world.

Some 7.1 million people need food assistance across four countried - Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger. Famine looms for over 120,000 people in the areas most affected by crisis in north-east Nigeria.

As malnutrition rises to alarming levels in all four countries, over half a million children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition.

In north-eastern Nigeria alone, some 1.9 million people have been forced to flee their homes due to conflict and insecurity. Almost 200,000 refugees from Nigeria are registered in neighbouring countries - finding shelter within host communities who were already among the poorest in the world.

In the photo: during a Rapid Response Mission (RRM) to Monguno, WFP distributed food to 78,000 people. Here, members of the WFP RRM team disembark the helicopter.

Photo: WFP/Amadou Baraze
Resilience
WFP provides Nigerian communities with high-quality, locally-sourced seeds, bolstering families’ food stores throughout the lean season. WFP will also provide cash transfers, tools, and vocational training to communities in need.
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SCOPE
This blockchain technology helps WFP collect names, fingerprints and photos when registering refugees. The SCOPE process reduces loss and theft while allowing WFP to better monitor and evaluate food distributions.
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UNHAS
Managed by WFP, the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) helps transport aid workers – as well as vaccines, medicine and medical equipment to areas not easily reachable by land or sea – to families in crisis.
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