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Start Fund provides £219,986 for people displaced by violence in Nigeria
April 14, 2015
Posted by Tegan Rogers in News.
The Start Fund will support ActionAid and Christian Aid to provide assistance to internally displaced people (IDPs) in Nigeria. The alert was raised on Tuesday and funding was transferred within 72 hours to the implementing agencies to begin their response on Friday. This is the second Start Fund activation for Nigeria, following a £65,000 disbursement in October 2014 for a cholera outbreak.

There are currently 1.2 million IDPs in Nigeria, according to the briefing note produced by ACAPS in response to the alert. The majority of these people were forced to flee their homes as a result of attacks from Boko Haram, and the violence resulting from the Nigerian military response….

However, the limited resources of the local communities are already overstretched. The briefing note provided by Development Initiatives described how there is a limited presence of humanitarian actors in the North East, “due not only to insecurity but also to a lack of donor funding.”…