UNICEF response to date
• A total of 14,549 children have been admitted to the community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) programme, of which 1,437 children were admitted for treatment in IDP camps in Adamawa and Borno states. A Nutrition Specialist is on ground in Yobe to support the implementation of CMAM programmes in IDP camps.
• The Psychosocial Support Programme is operational in 141 communities and 21 IDP camps in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa through 474 community volunteers, including 50 newly trained community volunteers in Borno. In Adamawa, an assessment of the situation of unaccompanied and separated children (UASC) was carried out. Assessment findings will support the development of a programme for the identification and interim care of UASC. UNICEF and Adamawa State Ministry of Women Affairs have trained 25 State and non-State actors on case management for unaccompanied and separated children.
• Integrated Primary Health Care (PHC) services were provided to 40,238 IDP men, women and children in Adamawa in 6 camps and 4 out-of-camp settlements, 11,392 IDPs in Yobe in 1 camp and 2 transit camps for returnees from the Republic of Niger and 51,124 IDPs in 14 camps in Borno.
• Polio immunization reached 2.78 million children under five (Adamawa: 936,834; Borno: 1,002,571; Yobe: 841,923) using Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) in the April campaign.
• In Delori camp in Maiduguri, two enumeration exercises were conducted assessing the educational needs of 4,737 children (2,293 boys/2,444 girls). These children will be enrolled into the neighbouring Dalori Estate Primary/Junior Secondary School, which has capacity for double-shift schooling.
• In Adamawa, UNICEF supported RUWASSA to construct 50 water sources with hand pumps (10 in IDP camps and 40 in host communities) reaching 16,900 people as well as two solar powered boreholes in 2 camps reaching 5,768 people. Two hundred latrines have been constructed in the IDP camps reaching 10,000 people. In Yobe, 12 latrines have been constructed in Pompomari IDP camps benefiting 3,654 people and 22 water sources have been rehabilitated in communities hosting IDPs reaching 3,026 people. In Borno, UNICEF and RUWASA continue to support regular water quality monitoring and daily chlorination of water storage tanks in 7 camps in Borno, reaching 60,801 IPDs to reduce the risk of disease outbreaks and desludging of 50 latrines has been completed in 3 camps benefiting 5,200 persons
