UN commences screening of Boko Haram victims for skills acquisition

The United Nations, UN, has commenced the screening of 2,000 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, for the
first phase of providing means of livelihood and early recovery support scheme to victims of Boko Haram insurgency.

The UN Resident Co-ordinator/UNDP Resident Representative, Dr. Daouda Toure, said in Gombe yesterday, while addressing the IDPs, that the screening was to ascertain if they were actually victims of insurgency.

Toure said 500 beneficiaries would be selected from Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, and UN was partnering with the three state governments to ensure the success of the exercise.

Dr. Toure said: “UNDP, in partnership with the governments of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, is undertaking 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.

“These victims will be placed in a two-week compulsory orientation programme, where you are going to undergo physical exercise, training, capacity-building on mediation, conflict prevention, conflict transformation, social integration and peaceful co-existence for two weeks.

“And because it is 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.

“Some of you started having hope, but unfortunately, their lives or their means of sustaining livelihood have been cut short, because of the Boko Haram insurgency.

“But let me assure you that for every one that is impacted in one way or the other, you will be accommodated in the various phases of the Early Recovery Programme. This is one of it.”
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