The Federal Executive Council has approved a draft national policy on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria.
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouk, announced this Wednesday after the weekly federal cabinet meeting.
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According to her, the overall goal of the policy is to strengthen institutional mechanism and frameworks for the realisation of rights, dignity and wellbeing of vulnerable populations through mitigation of impact and achievement of durable solutions to internal displacement in Nigeria.
“And with the approval of this policy today, a multi-sectoral structure will fully emerge, which will ensure a coordinated operational and strategic response to all the humanitarian challenges our nation is facing, providing practical and actionable solutions that will resolve internal displacement in the country.”
She said about N3bn had been spent on various intervention programmes for IDPs so far in the frontline states.
