Nigeria

Nigeria is a Cluster-like Sector response. 

In North-East Nigeria, the People in Need of CCCM services for 2025  are 2,573,628 internally displaced persons (IDPs) and returnees living in displacement sites and host communities. These conflict affected families are spread across camps and camp-like settings that often lack basic structures, infrastructure, and services. As the primary point of contact for humanitarian assistance for these displaced families, CCCM will need to continue fostering a multisectoral, people-centered, and rights-based response to ensure equal, safe, and dignified access to humanitarian aid.

Based on current displacement patterns, we anticipate a sustained need for CCCM responses in 2025. This is due to several factors: the existing caseloads in camps and out-of-camp areas where individuals have no other place to go; the anticipated influx of new arrivals fleeing insecurity or hard-to-reach and inaccessible areas; changes in the status of displaced persons from IDPs to returnees (and vice versa) due to voluntary returns or camp closures; and the impacts of climate change (such as floods, droughts, and fires) and economic shocks.

To bridge the gap between available humanitarian assistance and the affected population, CCCM will continue to maintain comprehensive population master lists, identify community needs and gaps, support self-governance, and facilitate appropriate information sharing to demystify humanitarian aid.

Across the BAY states, 934,055 IDPs live in camps, 1,150,008 IDPs reside in host communities, and 2,093,604 returnees are accommodated in 1,551 camps and camp-like settings. The most vulnerable populations, including women, children, the elderly, and persons with disabilities, are disproportionately affected by the crises and should be prioritized in our response efforts. About 23.8% of the IDP sites are on private lands with no formal land tenancy agreements, which in many instances have led to evictions, compromising independent humanitarian assistance, increased protection risks and hindering access, thus increasing the risk of secondary displacement[1].

The planned camp closure targeting IDP sites in Borno State is projected to result in the mushrooming of spontaneous sites around urban and peri-urban areas if done abruptly with no community-led durable solution. Severe weather conditions would trigger secondary and new displacements across the hazard prone LGAs. A projected increase in returnees, new arrivals, and IDPs in host communities would translate into increased demand for in-camp and out-of-camp CCCM responses.

In 2025, there will be a need for adequate camp management systems, that provide site coordination and management, maintain essential services and structures, facilitate community participation and representation, and strengthen community-led discourse around camp exit and durable solutions with CCCM as the first point of contact with the communities.