Nigeria: Periodic Monitoring Report (January - June 2016)

OVERVIEW

Key achievements toward Strategic Objectives

For the first six months of Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) implementation, the humanitarian country team achieved the following:

• 45,004 beneficiaires out the targeted 61,835, representing 73 per cent, were reached for non-food item (NFI) provisions

• 393,487 out of 1,666,188 targeted had access to safe water. This represents 24 per cent achievement of target.

• 20 per cent of targeted children, or 129,000 out of 630,000, had access to classroom equipped with WASH facilities

• Approximately 80,600 children, or 84 per cent of children, benefitted from life skills lessons in the classrooms/non formal education (NFE) centers

• About 272,930 people biometrically registered, representing 68 per cent of the target

• Out of the 6,030 children targeted, 3,294 (or 55 per cent) unaccompanied and separated children (UASC) identified and reached by the Child Protection Sector

• 159 of 134 targeted schools benefitted from emergency preparedness activities

• Out of 80 health personnel targeted, 42 (or 53 per cent) were trained on disease outbreak response and coordination.

Challenges

• Existing unmet needs are exacerbated by needs unfolding in newly accessible areas

• Funding constraints remain a challenge for agencies to scale up and expand coverage.

• Grave violation of human rights including death, injuries, sexual violence, exploitation and abuse, forced displacement and attacks on civilian sites with more robust protection mechanisms required.

• Increase in disease for the most vulnerable due to rainy season.

Recommendations

• Shift of operational hubs to Borno to expedite response and reducing logistical costs.

• Incorporate needs in newly accessible areas in the existing operational plans of sectors and agencies.

• Intensify resource mobilization efforts by engaging donors, the Government of Nigeria and private sector.

• Strengthen systematic information gathering, analysis and monitoring to guide needs analysis, increase accountability and advocacy for humanitarian action.

• Enhance community engagement to increase feedbacking and monitoring of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) and gender–based violence (GBV) cases.

• Strengthen localized contingency planning for the rainy season.