IOM, Others Launch New Initiative For Peacebuilding, Community Resilience In Nigeria

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM), successful concern with Mercy Corps Netherlands and the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), has officially launched the Conflict Prevention, Crisis Response and Resilience (CPCRR) Programme successful Katsina State, North West Nigeria.

This was disclosed a connection connected Friday  by the IOM, stressing that  the inaugural was funded by the European Union,  and the 18-month programme volition scope much than 95,000 radical crossed 10 section authorities Areas successful Katsina and Zamfara States, helping communities determination from situation to betterment by tackling the drivers of conflict, restoring livelihoods, and strengthening inclusive governance.

“Displacement is not a beingness sentence”, Dimanche Sharon, IOM Nigeria main of Mission, said stressing that “This programme is an concern successful the radical of Katsina and Zamfara, its youth, its women, men, persons surviving with disablement and its future.

By addressing the basal causes of struggle and restoring livelihoods, we tin guarantee that these states are not frontlines of crisis, but beacons of resilience and recovery,” she added.

Building connected the achievements of the Conflict Mitigation and Community Reconciliation (CMCR) Programme, which concluded successful January 2025, the caller Programme comes astatine a captious clip for Northwest Nigeria, wherever insecurity, inter-communal violence, and climate-related shocks person displaced much than 1.3 cardinal radical arsenic astatine February 2025, the connection said.

The CPCRR Programme volition absorption connected 2 cardinal outcomes. First, peacebuilding and struggle prevention done the constitution of Community Peace and Resilience Committees, enactment for dialogues, aboriginal informing systems, and entree to intelligence wellness and psychosocial services to assistance communities resoluteness disputes peacefully. Second, livelihood restoration and clime resilience by promoting climate-smart cultivation practices, vocational training, and Quick Impact Projects designed to trim contention implicit earthy resources, fortify nutrient security, and enactment economical recovery.

With communities astatine the centre of its plan and implementation, the programme volition lend to reducing violence, strengthening spot successful section governance, and fostering durable bid successful 1 of Nigeria’s astir affected regions. By integrating struggle prevention, livelihood recovery, and clime adaptation, the CPCRR Programme offers a broad attack to breaking the rhythm of unit and displacement, portion reinforcing pathways to resilience.