Nigeria, UNICEF, Improved access to quality reintegration services for children and women formerly associated with non-state armed groups in Northeast Nigeria.
Thousands of children and women have exited areas controlled by non-state armed groups in Northeast Nigeria since 2021. The project provides temporary shelter and basic services and longer-term socio-economic reintegration to this group of civilians and other vulnerable individuals through a package of multisectoral assistance. The successful and sustainable reintegration of these individuals is instrumental towards peacebuilding and complements ongoing Swiss work on peace and security.
Country/region | Topic | Period | Budget |
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Nigeria |
Humanitarian Assistance & DRR Conflict & fragility Gender nothemedefined
Protection, access & security
Child soldiers (CAAFG) Sexual & gender-based violence |
01.11.2024
- 31.10.2026 |
CHF 1’200’000
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- Children, youth and women formerly associated with non-state armed groups
- Separated and unaccompanied children
- Other vulnerable children in communities of reintegration
- GBV survivors
- Community leaders in conflict affected communities at risk of child recruitment and GBV
- Front line workers (government social welfare and child caseworkers)
- 19,445 children and adolescents reached with psychosocial interventions
- 250 children formerly associated with NSAGs and other vulnerable children in vocational skills development; 1,300 children enrolled in school and 250 enrolled in vocational training
- 2,000 children and women receive interim care services such as temporary shelter, access to basic services, recreational activities and skills training
- 400 unaccompanied and separated children reunified with their family
- 300 GBV survivors access at least one GBV service
- 200 community monitors trained on monitoring and reporting grave violations against children
- 245 Nigerian army personnel trained on child rights
- More than 23,000 children and adults reached with psychosocial support interventions.
- 713 children and women (237 girls, 295 boys and 181 women) released from administrative custody and provided with essential reintegration services
- 137 separated and unaccompanied children (62 girls, 75 boys) reunified with their family
- Protocol for the safe handover of children encountered in the course of armed conflict signed by the Government of Nigeria and the UN.
- Reports on grave violations against children in armed conflict produced quarterly and annually for the UN Security Council
- United Nations Children’s Fund
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Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation EMERGENCY RESPONSE
GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY
GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY
Sub-Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation Material relief assistance and services
Child soldiers (prevention and demobilisation)
Ending violence against women and girls
Cross-cutting topics Human rights
Aid Type Project and programme contribution
Project number 7F10623
Background | As a result of infighting between various non-state armed groups (NSAGs), on the on hand, and Government efforts to encourage surrenders on the other, more than 130,000 people have exited areas under NSAG control since June 2021. While approximately 4’000 individuals are estimated to have been directly associated with NSAGs as combatants, the rest are internally displaced civilians, a majority of women and children, who were trapped in those areas. The Government of Borno State Northeast Nigeria has embarked on an ambitious and perfectible plan for the management of these “mass exits”, including the reintegration of former fighters and their families, in a context where large swaths of the State remain inaccessible due to insecurity, thus forcing those who exited the NSAG-controlled areas to settle in the state capital Maiduguri or so-called “garrison towns” with military presence and large IDP populations. The proposed intervention seeks to ensure quality temporary shelter and basic services and socio-economic reintegration for children and women that were part of the “mass exits”. |
Objectives | The overall goal of the project is for girls and boys and women affected by armed conflict to be better protected from grave violations and receive quality preventive and responsive child protection services. |
Target groups |
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Medium-term outcomes |
Outcome 1: Children affected by armed conflict have equitable access to community-based reintegration services. Outcome 2: Capacities of government social services workforce, child protection partners, and community-based groups strengthened to deliver child protection and reintegration services. Outcome 3: Vulnerable children have equitable access to gender-responsive protection services Outcome 4: Grave child rights violations monitoring, reporting and response mechanisms are functional and strengthened. |
Results |
Expected results: Results from previous phases: |
Directorate/federal office responsible |
SDC |
Project partners |
Contract partner United Nations Organization (UNO) |
Coordination with other projects and actors | Swiss Embassy peace and security work; Borno State Ministries of: Women Affairs, Education, Justice; Nigerian army, local implementing partners |
Budget | Current phase Swiss budget CHF 1’200’000 Swiss disbursement to date CHF 400’000 Total project since first phase Swiss budget CHF 2’381’000 Budget inclusive project partner CHF 3’581’000 |
Project phases | Phase 3 01.11.2024 - 31.10.2026 (Current phase) Phase 2 01.10.2022 - 30.09.2024 (Active) |