| Description |
The internal displacement of persons which is the forced movement of people within their own country due to conflict, violence, natural disasters, or other crisis, without crossing international border constitutes one of the most pressing humanitarian crises in Nigeria.
The displacement is induced by a combination of factors such as Boko Haram insurgency in the North East region, Banditry/kidnapping in the North West region, armed conflict, and communal clashes in other parts of the country.
The survey was conducted in 2023 across seven states namely;
Adamawa, Yobe, Borno, Sokoto, Katsina, Benue and Nasarawa. The result reveals an estimated total of IDP population of 1,134,828 and
251,082 displaced households. Borno state recorded the highest number of displaced households (206,753) and 877,299 IDPs
representing 77.3 percent of the entire surveyed population.
The findings show that Boko Haram insurgency reported 81.2 percent, farmers/herders clash (16.2 percent), banditry/kidnapping (1.6
percent) as the major sources of displacements. This indicates that the displacement of persons is more human-induced than flooding or
any other form of natural disaster.
Further analysis reveals that out of the total population of surveyed IDPs, 50.3 percent were mainly minors and below the age of 18 years.
Only 49.7 percent were within the age of 18 years and above. However, it was observed that 83.4 percent of persons have been displaced
over four (4) years.
Sex disaggregation shows that males are slightly higher with 50.5 percent than their female counterpart with 49.5 percent. Furthermore, more than half of IDPs never attended school (63.4 percent), 0.4 percent had tertiary education among other educational
level completed.
More so, the findings show that IDPs are faced with numerous challenges irrespective of their location, such as inadequate or lack
of healthcare services (89%), inadequate food (88.4%), inadequate or lack of power supply (87.8%), inadequate clothing (83.6%), and bad
or lack of toilet facility (80.1%). In addition, 5.5 percent of households are faced with abduction and 6.0 percent are faced with sexual assault. |
