: Weekly Situation Report No. 4 28 June 2021

This report is compiled by OCHA Nigeria in collaboration with humanitarian partners.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Over 657k people across the 21 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Adamawa State are under crisis to emergency levels of food and nutrition insecurity (phases 3 to 4), according to the Cadre Harmonise (CH) food security analysis. • Lack of timely testing and contact tracing is hampering the COVID-19 response. • 1,317 children under five were screened during the week for malnutrition.

SITUATION OVERVIEW

To highlight the serious food security needs, the State Ministry of Agriculture and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation (FAO) coordinated the dissemination of the March 2021 Cadre Harmonize (CH) result to senior government stakeholders. The result of the report indicated that a total of 657,885 people across the 21 LGAs of Adamawa state are under crisis to emergency phase of food and nutrition insecurity (phase 3 to 4). For more information, please check the full CH report here.

International agencies based in Town and operating in the northern part of the state have raised concerns over access to beneficiary communities in LGA due to new instructions from the military. Previously, partners used to share information and obtain movement clearance from the Chibok Command brigade, which is easily reachable from Mubi. Now the military command advised all partners intending to travel to the LGA to first obtain security clearance from Maiduguri Theatre Commander.

Gaps: The state COVID-19 response continues to suffer significant gaps, with WHO highlighting the low turnaround time at the laboratory for samples collected from suspected cases, lack of personal protection equipment (PPE) kits and timely contact tracing as major challenges. Currently around 894 samples are pending laboratory investigation at the Federal Medical Center. To address this, WHO is working closely with the head of molecular laboratory on what is needed to improve the turnaround time. The organization has also placed a request to WHO Maiduguri for infection prevention and control (IPC) materials.

HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE

Camp Coordination and Camp Management / Non-Food Items / Shelter

Needs: • IDP shelters in both formal and informal settlements require upgrading.

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• IDPs in Daware informal settlement need land for cultivation following the repossession of their farmlands by the host community leaders.

Response: • The INTERSOS-UNHCR team mapped communities for the implementation of CCCM out-of-camp programming in Yola, Mubi, and . 35 community volunteers across the 3 locations will support the project implementation. Staff received a two-day training in Maiduguri to enhance their capacity on the programming. • IOM-CCCM conducted 6 COVID-19 awareness sessions in 6 sites across 4 LGAs, reaching an estimated camp population of 15,983 individuals. • The CCCM team is following up with SEMA on the issue of IDPs’ farmland being revoked by the Daware host community leader. • IOM is planning to distribute 581 improved NFI kits to vulnerable IDPs in Jaccingo (81), Malkohi Village (200), Daware (270) and Rumde Shamaki (30). • IOM is constructing mud bricks shelters for IDPs at Jaccingo and Rumde Shamaki IDPs camps. 18 shelters have been completed at Jaccingo and 15 at Rumde Shamaki. Additionally, 41 mud house roofs have been upgraded with CGI zinc.

Early Recovery

Needs: • NRC assessments highlighted inadequate skills among IDPs and returnees for formal or self-employment. • There is need to provide vocational kits to IDPs and host community members who have received vocational training. • The majority of the IDPs and returnees lack capital to start income generating activities.

Response: • In Mubi, NRC trained 100 households with vocational skills training, provided 200 households with business skills trainings, provided beneficiaries with small business start-up cash grants, provided 100 households with vocational start-up kits and provided 100 households with agricultural inputs (seeds, tools and agro-chemicals).

Education

Needs: • Out-of-school children need access to quality education in a safe and secure environment. • Formal schools are needed for continuous support through child-centered teaching methodology.

Response:

• Plan International, with funding from UNICEF/KFW, awarded contracts for five Temporary Learning Spaces (TLS) and 4 gender-segregated latrines to be constructed in five communities of LGA (Safatawa, Boilire, Damare and Ngurore Ribadu). The TLSs will provide access to a safe learning environment that will promote access to quality education for out-of-school children in the communities. • Plan International conducted assessments across 31 learning centers in Guyuk and Fufore LGAs to ascertain the level of assimilation of learners. This activity will inform the project team on areas that may need urgent intervention to keep the program on track. • Plan International continues to monitor the implementation of the Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) program in 139 formal schools in Guyuk and Fufore LGAs for quality teaching and learning activities among learners in primary level 4-6.

Food Security

Needs: There is need to support more farmers in and South LGAs with agricultural inputs (seeds, tools and agro- chemicals) to enhance food production.

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Response: • The Adamawa Food Security Sector (FSS) initiated the Agriculture Food Security and Livelihood coordination at LGA level, with the purpose to strengthen the coordination between different FSS actors. • FAO is supporting 3 women’s groups with small-scale entrepreneurship development in Fufore, Mubi North and Song, each group comprised of 10 women. The women’s groups will be registered as a cooperative and thereafter each group at Fufore and Mubi North will receive a milling machine and in Song the group will receive a hammer milling machine. • 38 farmer’s groups across 5 LGAs of Mubi North, , , and were trained and mentored on group savings and loans association (GSLA), and then each group will be supported with a small grant of 200,000 Naira. • FAO is supporting 75 households with integrated homestead incubation in Yola South. This includes aquaculture, micro gardening, irrigation, the distribution of micro gardening vegetable seeds, construction of the earthen fishpond, installation of small drip irrigation system, as well as construction of platform for water reservoirs.

Health

Needs: • There is need to provide supplementary drugs and personal protective equipment (PPE) to the primary healthcare center (PHC) in Michika. • The risk communication campaign on prevention and control of COVID-19 at the household level needs to be enhanced. • There is inadequate access to hygiene kits for proper handwashing and environmental sanitation in Michika.

Response: • The IRC reached 1,717 individuals via patient consultations in 7 PHCs, namely Kwabapale, Futu, Minkisi, Kuburshosho, Watsila, Wambilimi and Khurou in Michika LGA. • Plan International Nigeria carried out door-to-door sensitization of pregnant and lactating women (PLW) on prevention and control of COVID-19, reaching a total of 385 PLW in 5 communities of Michika LGA. Plan also distributed hygiene material (soap) to support handwashing and hygienic practices.

Nutrition

Needs: • Screening of under-five community children is needed for the identification of malnutrition. • There is need for admitting and treating severe and acute malnutrition (SAM) cases both with and without medical complication, including those in deeper field locations without access to outpatient therapeutic interventions. • There is need to provide nutrition counselling and sensitization on infant and young child feeding (IYCF). • Provision of training and capacity building is needed for Ministry of Health (MOH) staff, community health volunteers (CHV)s, mother-to-mother support group and SAM patient caregivers. • There is need to mainstream gender equality and inclusiveness into infant and young child nutrition and health in Michika LGA.

Response: • A total of 1,317 children under five were screened during the week with a total of 93 severely malnourished children (50 male, 43 female) who were admitted to Outpatient Therapeutic Feeding Programme (OTP) sites across Michika and Askira Uba LGA. 113 were discharged as cured and 4 children defaulted from the program. Seven severely malnourished children with medical complications were referred to a stabilization center from both the LGAs. 880 were receiving treatment in various OTP sites. • During a IYCF session, 57 pregnant and 90 lactating mothers were reached through group counseling, while 44 pregnant and 56 lactating women were reached individually in Michika and Askira Uba LGAs. • During the mother-to-mother support session 79 pregnant and 89 lactating women, 35 adolescents, and 36 grandmothers were reached with IYCF key messages across Askira Uba and Michika LGA. 45 lactating mothers with children less than six months old were reached with exclusive breastfeeding key messages.

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• Plan International Nigeria and the state primary health care established a mobile OTP clinic to treat SAM cases in Bazza-Biang community. This was done as a result of sudden rise of SAM and MAM cases and the inability to access treatment in a nearby clinic. • Father support group meetings on IYCF were conducted with 132 men in the community. This session engages and challenges men to be a part of childcare and support maternal health.

Protection

Needs: • There is need to enhance access to justice/services, legal documentation, freedom of movement, prevention and response to gender-based violence. • Field monitoring is needed to ensure beneficiaries receive socio-economic support.

Response: • Protection monitoring sessions were held in Yaskule and Wambilimi (Michika LGA) to identify protection risks and concerns. • Two awareness raising sessions on access to justice and COVID-19 vaccination reached 58 people (11 male, 47 female), including 6 persons with disabilities (5 male, 1 female). • IOM conducted mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) activities at community level through storytelling, songs, music and cultural dances between various cultures to build social cohesion. IOM also organized a forum theater to address the issues relating to discrimination against persons with disabilities. • The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)/UNHCR conducted 2 sessions of legal counseling in collaboration with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in in Mubi North with 59 individuals (50 females, 9 males). • 87 protection monitoring and 9 border monitoring missions were conducted by CARITAS.

GBV Sub-Working Group

Needs: • Adolescent girls and women need sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response services, including MHPSS. • Six new GBV cases (all female) were reported and documented within the week.

Response: • In response to the reported cases, survivors were referred for services based on their needs and availability of the services. Follow up was also done for 6 previously documented cases as part of case management processes that seeks to check on survivors’ healing and recovery progress. • Plan International is collaborating with Adamawa State Universal Basic Education Board on land allocation in Jambutu, Rumde/Limawa and Vonuklang for construction of Women’s and Girls’ Safe Spaces to provide space for disclosure of GBV incidences. • Plan International conducted consultation with adolescent girls and women on content of dignity kits. The items to be purchased will be based on the input and preferences of women and adolescent girls in the communities and also in line with UNFPA’s standard kits. • Four community awareness raising/sensitization sessions on GBV prevention was conducted by BOWDI-UNHCR social workers across Anguwan Ka’el, Hule and Jauro Illa localities of Njabbore community in Yola North, as well as Dandu and Fattude Bella communities in Yola South, reaching 132 persons of concern. • Plan International established community-based protection groups in Yola North and Girei. The groups will be trained on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) concepts and consequences, guiding principles, how to provide emotional support to survivors, as well as safe referral of survivors to services. • Plan International provided capacity building on GBV case management to the national partner Restoration of Hope initiative (ROHI) in order to provide individualized and holistic support to adolescent girls who are at-risk of or who have experienced SGBV.

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Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

Needs: • Water access needs to be improved through water trucking, construction of new water points, rehabilitation and operation and maintenance of broken-down water supply facilities in catchment communities in Michika and Askira Uba LGA. • Community participation is needed in the community-led total sanitation (CLTS) approach to tackle open defecation and lack of access to sanitation facilities in Michika and Askira Uba. • Improvement is needed in acceptable hygiene knowledge and practices in 13 health facilities and 22 catchment communities of Michika and Askira Uba LGA.

Response: • IRC trucked 9,000 liters of chlorinated water to Mubi Burnt Bricks IDP camp. • IRC trained 24 staff members (9 females, 15 males) on menstrual hygiene management. • IRC carried out COVID-19 hygiene campaigns through 806 home visits, reaching 7,012 individuals (4,350 females, 2,662 males) across 22 catchment communities in Michika and Askira Uba LGA. IRC also carried out 12 sessions of hygiene campaigns across 12 health facilities, reaching 883 patients and caregivers. • IOM distributed laundry and bathing soaps to 5,381 individuals across 7 IDP camps to improve personal hygiene among camp populations. • To curtail cases of open defecation, IOM constructed 3 blocks of 3 units of latrines and showers at Malkohi village and Rumde Shamaki.

Coordination

Government response: • Following the recent dispute between IDPs at Daware informal settlement that led to the repossession of farming land from IDP farmers, the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has reached out to the community leaders to resolve the dispute between them and their host community.

Humanitarian community response: • OCHA facilitated the bi-weekly COVID-19 response meeting, in which partners were called upon to intensify support for pillars/areas where there are already significant gaps, such as lack of PPE kits, risk communication and timely contact tracing.

Funding Overview

Out of $1.0 billion required for the 2021 humanitarian response in north-east Nigeria, $225 million is required for Adamawa State.

For further information, please contact:

Esty Sutyoko, Deputy Head of Office, OCHA Nigeria [email protected] +234 903 781 0095 Moseray Sesay, Head of Sub Office, OCHA Adamawa State [email protected] +234 703 171 8734 Christina Powell, Public Information Officer, OCHA Nigeria [email protected] +234 906 227 7205 Abiodun Banire, HAO/Reports Officer [email protected] +234 703 171 8735

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