Building the resilience of conflict-affected communities through a multi-sectoral integrated response in Lamurde LGA Adamawa State. NRC planned response will follow an area-bases-approach (where integration and sequencing across sectors) will be a key priority for services' delivery under WASH, Shelter and Livelihoods and Food Security. NRC's response will focus on Lamurde Local Government Area (LGA) in Adamawa State and will be implemented together with CISCOPE who will complement the planned interventions under WASH and Livelihoods to ensure localization and supporting efforts of local implementing partners is incorporated to the project design. The NRC and CISCOPE planned intervention will provide life saving and life sustaining assistance/ Through access to water, sanitation and hygiene items and practices within the targeted communities, NRC will be improving the conflict affected population living conditions and preventing the spread of diseases including cholera, typhoid, malaria, etc. This will be complemented by Livelihoods and Shelter to build resilience, provide protection and improve further the sub-standard living conditions. Accordingly, NRC will seek to save-lives while improving the longer term living and build livelihoods resilience and access to income. 

Through the planned WASH response, current gaps such as provision of clean water for domestic and productive use, enhanced access to dignified sanitation facilities through construction of new latrines/bathing shelters, refuse management through community mobilization and distribution of environmental sanitation kits. Lastly, hygiene promotion through house-to-house visits, alongside distribution of NFIs and Family Hygiene Kits.

Also, to ensure longer term complementarity and sustainable solutions, the emphasis for livelihoods activities will be a balance between livelihoods recovery, protection of productive assets and increasing/strengthening income generating activities. The project will improve household and community resilience to market, conflict, and climate induced shocks. It will further seek to mitigate root causes of displacement through capacity building for improved access to livelihoods addressing chronic food insecurity, stemming from low purchasing and production capacity. The project will particularly support households with increased income, food production, profit and enhance social protection, cohesion and community resilience. To ensure complementarity with the WASH activities in the targeted area, the project will pilot Hydroponic Fodder production as an innovation to grow animal feed from seeds without soil, and with little water. The project will also support 300 women and people with disabilities with tools, inputs and training (Climate Smart Agriculture) for small-scale farming (micro grading).  


Lastly to improve protection through shelter and ensure, safety, and dignity of displacement affected populations in LGA by improved access to appropriate shelter solutions in IDP camps, including the construction of Dikwa type shelters, temporary shelter repairs, and essential household items. The selection of project beneficiaries will be carried out in a transparent and inclusive manner in line with shelter/NFIs cluster recommended selection criteria, which is captured on NRCs multi-sectoral beneficiary selection tools. NRC will rely on its strong logistical presence and warehousing capacities for the implementation of this project, which will be critical for impact. 


The planned response will be implemented within a 12-month period and will assist a total of 2,600 households representing 12,500 (6,625F: 5,875M) individuals. The target beneficiaries were based on the proportion of people in need in the target LGA of Lamurde according to the HNO 2022