VSF partners UNIMAID on Boko Haram Damage Assessment

The Victims Support Fund (VSF) is partnering with the foremost ivory tower in the Northeast sub-region, University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) to assess the level of damage in the ongoing Boko Haram insurgency and level of humanitarian needs.

The collaboration between the two parties is on disaster risk management in order to overcome and meet humanitarian needs of returning Internally Displaced Persons( I DPs) in Northeast. Singing the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the varsity during the week in Mai dug uri, the Executive Director of the Fund, Prof. Sunday Oc hoc he said the Centre for Disaster Risk Management and Development Studies; was to carry out a baseline assessment of communities affected by ins urgency and terrorism.

He said the affected and liberated communities were mainly located in

Borno and two other states, Adam aw a and Yo be, all in the North-East sub-region of the country.

He said :“The assessment seeks to determine the state of voluntary return of victims from camps and host communities to their homes, which were torched by Boko Haram insurgents in the last five years.

“Our partnership with the University on disaster risk management was to ensure VS F intervention to suit and meet various needs of the humanitarian crises. It will also provide a framework as well as information mechanism for improved programme planning and implementation.”