On the Support to the Preparation of the NEDC's North East Stabilization and Development Master Plan (English)

President Mohammadu Buhari added more impetus to the comprehensive response to the Boko Haram insurgency's exceptional devastation of the Northeast by signing the North East Development Commission (NEDC) Bill into law in February 2020. This thrust firmly established the Northeast Development Commission (NEDC) as a focal organization charged with the responsibility of, inter alia, assessing, coordinating, harmonizing, and reporting on all intervention programs and initiatives by the Federal Government, States, and other Development Partners, as well as the implementation of all programs and initiatives for the North East states of Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe., North East is one of the geopolitical zones of Nigeria, consists of the states Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe Taraba and Yobe. It occupies slightly less than one-third of Nigeria's total area and had a projected population for 2011 of 23,558,674 or 13.5% of the country's population. There are more than 100 indigenous ethnic groups comprising the Kanuris, Shuwa, Fulani, Lunguda, Bachama etc. Because of the perennial social crisis occasioned by insurrections that has been sustained by armed militia groups and non-state actors since 2007, an estimated 53 per cent of the total population of 13.4 million people required humanitarian assistance in 2019. About 13 per cent of the total population are IDPs representing a quarter of the people in need of humanitarian assistance in 2019. At the height of the conflict in 2009, Non-State Armed Groups (NSAGs) targeted all six states in the north-east region, with Borno becoming the worst-affected State and epicenter of the humanitarian crisis. Recent statistics show that crisis which is classified as one of the most severe protection crises in the world has recorded 14,3001 civilian's casualties since 2009. This is added to the growing cases of malnutrition, food insecurity, displacements, and dire conditions including over-congestion and severe shortages of shelters across camps and communities hosting 2000 formal and other forms of habitations for Internally Displaced Person's camps (IDPs) across the state.