Terms of Reference Mubi Outstation Cash Working Group (CWG), Adamawa State - November 2017

I. Introduction

Since 2009, the Boko Haram insurgency has affected about 15 million people in the north-east of Nigeria. Out of the total affected, about 8.5 million are estimated to be in need of humanitarian assistance. Within Adamawa state, some 2.5 M estimated number of people in need of humanitarian assistance, and 1.8 M targeted for humanitarian assistance.

Following the significant scale up cash transfer programmes (CTP) to meet the increasing humanitarian need throughout the north-east, Cash Working Groups were set up in Abuja and Maiduguri at the end of 2015 and the beginning of 2016 respectively. While the Maiduguri CWG seeks to cover cash coordination requirements throughout the three states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe, the quickly expanding number of CTP actors and particularities between states have led partners to also request the establishment of local CWGs in Adamawa and Yobe, as sub-groups of the main operational CWG in Borno.

In this regard, OCHA convened CTP practitioners in Adamawa on 1 August 2017 to discuss ongoing CTP activities and concerns, as well as coordination requirements. Following extensive consultations with government partners including NEMA and SEMA and cash partners across UN, INGOs and local NGOs, it agreed that CWG should be set up in Yola and Mubi LGAs, Adamawa State.