Nearly 14 million people affected
by Boko Haram insurgency are to benefit from President Muhammadu Buhari’s
five-year recovery plan for states in the North-East zone of the country.
Mr John Mamza, the National
Programme Coordinator, Rural Water and Sanitation Services, made this known
during a one-day rural water supply overview programme in Yola on Tuesday.
Mamza explained that the Federal
Government through the African Development Bank (AfDB) in 2018 secured a
flexible loan of 179.42 million U.S. dollars for North East Emergency
Transition, Recovery and Peace building, NAN reports.
He said that the project was
under the Inclusive Basic Service Delivery and Livelihood Empowerment
Integrated Programme (IBSDLEIP) funded by AfDB and implemented by the five
North Eastern states of Adamawa, Taraba, Gombe, Borno, and Bauchi.
“This Programme is part of on-going
Federal Government efforts toward North-East States Emergency Transition,
Recovery and Peace building, elaborated by the five-year programmatic `Buhari
Plan’ of 2016.
“The programme is multi-sectoral,
cutting across Education, Health, Labour, Women Affairs and Water Resources,
with the rural water supply project taking up the largest share.
“Also, the Programme is designed
to help address the needs of an estimated 14 million affected people, including
more than 2.3 million Internally Displaced Persons, of whom nearly 80 per cent
are women, children, and youths and with special attention to rural households
in Local Government Areas affected by the insurgency,” Mamza said.
Mamza pointed out that the
Programme had three components that include: service delivery, economic
recovery and Institutional Strengthening and Project Management.
According to the coordinator, the
programme was officially launched by the vice president in Abuja last year with
the goals of poverty and vulnerability reduction in Nigeria.
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