THE United Nations has commenced screening 2,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who are victims of Boko Haram insurgency, for the first phase of providing means of livelihood and early recovery support scheme.
The UN Resident Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative, Dr Daouda Toure, said in Gombe, on Monday while addressing the IDPs at the screening which was to ascertain if they were actually victims of insurgency.
UNDP, in partnership with the three state governments of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, seeks to ameliorate the suffering of the displaced people in the three states as a result of Boko Haram insurgency.
"UNDP is embarking on the Livelihoods Support Scheme. Under the first phase, 500 victims will be selected in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe" He said
The IDPs will be placed in a two-week compulsory orientation programme where they will undergo physical exercise, training, capacity-building on mediation, conflict prevention, conflict transformation, social integration, and peaceful co-existence.
He said "because it’s an intensive programme, we are very mindful of those we select and we are doing this screening because we want people that genuinely need this assistance to be selected."
This is one of the various phases of the Early Recovery Programme into which the victims of insurgency will be accommodated.
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