Nigeria - 2020 year-end report - Unmet Needs

2020

Despite these interventions, many IDPs are still occupying reception centres, others are accommodated by the host communities, while some live-in open spaces due to limited land. Shelter gaps in IDP camps based on site tracker covering the period until November 2020 reveal that in the three BAY states, out of 209,023 evaluated IDP households, there were 7,316 households sharing shelters, 22,805 households living in damaged shelters, 976 households living outside with no access to any type of shelter solution and 16,722 IDP households living in makeshift shelters.

Housing, land, and property (HLP) needs and land ownership at the point of settlement pose serious challenges to attainment of durable solutions to displacement, limiting provision of transitional shelter. There is a need to support new arrivals resulting from multiple displacements and military operations and to address the overcrowding of existing camps to improve living conditions and address the immense gaps.

Beyond 2020, UNHCR will continue to strengthen its support in prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse as well as gender-based violence in the refugee space by ensuring compliance with standard operating procedures (SOPs) on both. This will be done by encouraging further trainings, especially with partners and incentive workers.

Registration is progressively being handed over to the Government through National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, (NCFRMI) with the roll out of ProGres V4. Additionally, UNHCR will continue to support (State Emergency Management Agency) SEMA and NCFRMI to enhance their capacity in protection monitoring, RSD (refugee status determination) procedures and continuous registration. Adequate funds are needed to ensure that enough continuous trainings are conducted. It is expected that the enhanced capacity with Government partners will mitigate the challenges refugees face in relation to lack of documentation, detention and limited freedom of movement. Upgrading to ProGres V4 will also enhance reporting and data management on gender-based violence, education, health, legal and security to ensure harmonized data base.

UNHCR is progressively scaling up engagement with stakeholders at State, local Government and community levels to ensure peaceful co-existence with host communities.