The United Nations World Meals Programme (WFP) welcomes a US$ 1 million contribution by the Financial Neighborhood of West African States (ECOWAS) to supply emergency meals and diet help to severely food-insecure individuals in northwest Nigeria.
In collaboration with the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, WFP will present meals and diet help to 14,000 individuals in Katsina and Sokoto states for six months. Livelihood help and psycho-social help can even be offered to advertise social cohesion and peace amongst crisis-affected communities.
“With rising meals prices, and inflation working above 30 per cent, the very best degree in 30 years, this partnership comes at a time of nice want for humanitarian help in Nigeria”, mentioned David Stevenson WFP’s Nation Director and Consultant in Nigeria. “The ECOWAS contribution underscores the efforts of the humanitarian companies and the federal government authorities in tackling the scourge of battle and starvation in northern Nigeria. Collectively, we’re creating sustainable options that can guarantee long-term meals safety and resilience within the area.”
Rising inflation, battle and excessive meals costs throughout the nation have left hundreds of thousands of individuals in Nigeria struggling to feed themselves. The Northwest area now has the very best variety of hungry individuals within the nation. The March 2024 Cadre Harmonisé meals safety evaluation projected that the variety of hungry individuals might attain 6 million throughout the June-August 2024 lean season – a pointy improve of over 30 per cent in comparison with the identical interval in 2023. Little one malnutrition can be working very excessive within the northwest, with some 4 million youngsters acutely malnourished.
“ECOWAS has reaffirmed its dedication to assuaging the struggling of individuals impacted by humanitarian crises,” mentioned Prof Fatou Sarr, ECOWAS Commissioner for Human Improvement and Social Affairs.
“The Federal Authorities of Nigeria, below the renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu, is dedicated to ameliorating the plight of the susceptible, making an allowance for the socio-economic challenges confronted by communities as a result of insecurity, poverty, conflicts and pure disasters,” mentioned Abel Enitan, Everlasting Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation.
Total, in Nigeria, WFP supplies meals and diet help to 1.2 million individuals within the conflict-affected northeastern states of Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe, and helps some 200,000 susceptible individuals within the northwest.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of World Meals Programme (WFP).