The Manager, Humanitarian and Resilience, ActionAid Nigeria, Mr. David Habba, who said this on Sunday in Abuja, during the HDPP Nexus High level consultative workshop, said that it has become necessary to ensure that a new workable strategy that would address the plights of the internally displaced is formulated for a long-term implementation.
When asked if the arrangements would not just add to the lists of previous interventions that have not resolved the crisis, Habba ais that this has been addressed, especially at the levels of those involved now.
On his part, the National Conflict Analyst, SCG, Mr. Chrisanto Lappa, assured that the consultation has been pegged between now and March 2021 with all actors across the nation.
“We have most of the donors that are working in the North East and the idea of the HDP is to bridge the gap where people are concentrating in Human development or either humanitarian action for peace building.
“There will be more collaboration which will help us to give more accountability and help us reduce duplication and wastage. We intend to move to individual states. We are going to start our conversation at the national level and let it go round.
“We want to ensure we leverage on the platform to have key persons to be at the focal points in their various states that will participate in the HDP nexus and we will be able to leverage on that network to reach many states as possible at the same time,” Lappa said.
Also, the Commissioner for Poverty Alleviation in Borno State, Mr. Nuhu Clark, commended the AAN initiative in bringing the stakeholders together to achieve the common goal.
He said, “We all agreed to work in synergy, there shouldn’t be duplication but to make sure that whatever we do, we do collectively to achieve the goal. We must be united and reach an agreement which is very important in planning.”
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