Farouq seeks partnership to address humanitarian challenges in Nigeria
By Matthew ELOYI
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq has called for cooperation and support to effectively address the prevailing humanitarian challenges in the country.
In a statement issued by Nneka lkem Anibeze, Special Advisal on Media to the Minister yesterday in Abuja, the Minister made the call while discussing the Social Development and Humanitarian Challenges Facing Nigeria and Federal Government’s Responses to Humanitarian and Food Crises in the country at a Chatham House Webinar hosted by Dr. Leena Koni Hoffman.
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While appreciating the United Nations system in Nigeria and various other donor agencies including development partners that have significantly assisted in addressing the prevailing humanitarian challenges in Nigeria, Farouq said the ministry needed more partners to key into existing policies to address the crises.
In her words, “The Ministry is now desirous of partners to key into existing programmes, policies and structures to address the prevailing humanitarian challenges. By that, I mean more collectively, planning and agenda-shaping in a coordinated and sustained manner for better impact.
“We are also passionately appealing for cooperation and support in measuring and assessing impact of all these activities and investment for the purposes of building better safety-net tools and ultimately achieving sustainable development.
The Federal government, through the Ministry is clearly committed and has established effective coordination platforms to facilitate this.”
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Farouq noted that the food security challenges in the Northeast is a sore point following the volatile situation in the region.
She however said that the Ministry is consistently working with humanitarian stakeholders and the Military to facilitate humanitarian access and promote accountability in the humanitarian space within the Civil-Security Framework and coordination platform.
