STRENGTHENING RECOVERY AND PEACE BUILDING IN NORTH-EAST NIGERIA Background The North-East Nigeria Recovery and In North-East Nigeria, the violence of Boko Haram and Stabilisation Programme resulting military operations have affected nearly 15 million The North-East Nigeria Recovery and Stabilisation people since 2009. More than 20,000 lives have been Programme will operationalise the Buhari Plan and the lost, and over two million people have been displaced. RPBA, translating them into an effective implementation The conflict has triggered a humanitarian crisis that has strategy for recovery and peace building. The programme strained food security and social services across the six will establish an institutional framework to apply North-East States. A majority of internally displaced persons operational approaches and institutional arrangements for (IDPs) come from Borno state, and others from Adamawa interventions and projects. The programme features: and Yobe states. Bauchi, Gombe and Taraba states have been substantially impacted as hosts of forcibly displaced A coherent programme, prioritising the 1.  persons. Effects of the violence have also spilled over into need for recovery and peace building neighboring countries in the Lake Chad region—Cameroon, across social, economic and infrastructure Chad and Niger. recovery, restoration and reconstruction An institutional framework for implementation, 2.  The Recovery and Peace Building coordination, quality assurance and monitoring Assessment (RPBA) and evaluation of the recovery programme In early 2016, the Nigerian government—in collaboration with the World Bank, the United Nations and the European A cohesive resource mobilisation plan 3.  Union—conducted a Recovery and Peace Building to fund the recovery programme Assessment (RPBA) to gauge crisis recovery needs in the North-East. The assessment highlighted three World Bank Engagement in the North-East strategic areas of intervention: peace building, stability At the conclusion of the RPBA, the Government of Nigeria and social cohesion; infrastructure and social services; and requested World Bank support for recovery and peace economic recovery. building in the North-East. This led to the approval of a $575 The assessment involved extensive data collection, dialogue million Human Development Programme, comprising and stakeholder consultation, and the identification, additional financing for existing projects in health, assessment, and quantification of recovery and peace education, social protection and agriculture to address the building needs across the six affected states. Completed in needs of conflict-affected people, and the development of April 2016, the RPBA found total needs amounting to $6.7 a new $200 million Multi-Sectoral Crisis Recovery Project billion for recovery and peace building in the stabilisation for North-East Nigeria. (1-2 years) and recovery (3-4 years) phases. In June 2016, the Government of Nigeria released the Buhari Plan as the blueprint for efforts in the North-East, consolidating the findings and recommendations of the RPBA and other plans for the North-East. Project Evolution Nigeria (GON) Recovery and RPBA Additional North-East $200 million requests support Peace Building completed; financing of Nigeria Recovery Multi-Sectoral to assess crisis Assessment GoN requests $575 million for and Stabilisation Crisis Recovery recovery needs conducted WB assistance the North-East programme Project effective in the North- (Jan. - Mar. 2016) for post-RPBA approved for commences (Mar. 2017) East (Aug. 2015) process and six WB projects (Aug. 2016) recovery (Jun. 2016) projects in the North-East (Apr. 2016) The programme is organised along the following five pillars: Pillars Ongoing Progress & Outputs Produced Policy Development •  Mapping policies at Federal and State levels and reviewing National Disaster for Recovery and Peace Recovery Framework Building •  Facilitating knowledge exchange and continuous engagement between North-East development agencies, recovery practitioners, the World Bank, and partners •  Organising stakeholder workshops to facilitate the development of policy frameworks for recovery and peace building Prioritising and • Supporting Federal (PCNI) and State (Gombe, Taraba, and Bauchi) partners in the Sequencing of Recovery prioritisation and sequencing of North-East interventions • Mapping and preparing planned and ongoing interventions at Federal and State levels. Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe States have drafted state-level Strategic Action Plans (SAPs), prioritising interventions identified in the Buhari Plan and the RPBA • Finalising frameworks, guidelines for prioritisation, and methodology for prioritisation exercise Institutional Framework & • Operationalising the Recovery and Stabilisation Programme through ongoing work plan Implementation Strategy and design of programmematic-level Standard Operating Procedures • Developing institutional mapping, capacity assessments, and capacity building plans with Federal and State institutional counterparts • Designing overall institutional architecture to support recovery and peace building • Establishing an institutional repository for real-time updates of the Buhari Plan/RPBA database and designing a fiduciary and operational framework Recovery Financing • Conducting a financial gap analysis, taking stock of needs and resources from Strategy Government and development partners • Tracking aid disbursements utilising a dedicated dashboard in progress, with Government and development partners. Dashboard architecture has been analysed, and a work plan in process Programme Oversight, • Mapping existing coordination mechanisms at Federal and State levels following reviews Monitoring and Evaluation, of the Buhari Plan and RPBA frameworks and Coordination • Developing M&E systems with independent third-party oversight at Federal and State levels, in coordination with Government and development partners The Multi-Sectoral Crisis Recovery Project (MCRP) The MCRP is designed to support the Nigerian Government The MCRP is focused on responding to the immediate in improving the livelihoods of affected communities, needs of forcibly displaced people and host communities strengthening social cohesion, and rehabilitating North- to bridge the gap between humanitarian support and East Nigeria. The project objective is fully aligned with medium-term development. The broader goal is to the strategic outcomes for recovery and peace building support efforts to restore the social fabric in the conflict set out by the Buhari Plan and the RPBA: resettling affected areas by sustainably restoring and improving displaced populations; improving human security, social services, strengthening citizen trust in the state, and fostering reconciliation and violence prevention; enhancing fostering opportunity for economic growth and productive government accountability and citizen engagement in livelihoods through reconstruction, rehabilitation and the service delivery; and increasing equity in the provision of improvement of service delivery in affected areas. basic services and employment opportunities. The MCRP takes a gradual, phased, two-pronged approach that includes a surge of high-impact, early recovery interventions to stabilise and rebuild lives and livelihoods, followed by a gradual transition towards medium-term recovery and resilience building through investments in social cohesion and productive, capital and social infrastructure.