NEMA, World Bank partner with Borno Govt on emergency preparedness, response

By Ndahi Marama, Maiduguri

MAIDUGURI — The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), successful collaboration with the World Bank Group and the Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), connected Monday held a Stakeholders’ Engagement connected Emergency Preparedness and Response (EP&R) successful Maiduguri, the authorities capital.

The two-day lawsuit aims to fortify catastrophe absorption capableness crossed Borno State’s 27 section authorities areas, enhancing preparedness, coordination, and resilience against earthy and human-induced emergencies.

The Director-General of NEMA, Mrs. Zubaida Umar, represented by the Director of Planning, Research and Forecasting, Dr. Bandele Onimode, said the store is portion of the ongoing NEMA–World Bank concern designed to reenforce Nigeria’s sub-national exigency absorption architecture.

Reading Mrs. Umar’s remarks, Onimode said, “This engagement is portion of a continuing bid that has already taken america done Kogi, Delta, Ondo, Kano, and Kebbi States, wherever we worked intimately with authorities exigency agencies, section authorities, and assemblage actors to physique stronger, faster, and much coordinated effect systems.”

He noted that the collaboration has yielded invaluable insights crossed participating states, from flood hazard coordination successful Kogi and Delta to community-driven preparedness successful Ondo, and capacity-building initiatives successful Kano and Kebbi.

“Today, arsenic we convene successful Borno State, we proceed that momentum with renewed purpose. Borno presents a unsocial landscape—marked by resilience, recovery, and determination to rebuild stronger. While the authorities faces recurrent flood threats and different earthy hazards, its communities person shown however empowerment and coordination tin fortify catastrophe management,” she said.

Mrs. Umar explained that the EP&R Project seeks to: Establish functional exigency preparedness and effect structures crossed each LGAs; Develop a broad database of trained volunteers; Advocate the institutionalization and activation of Local Emergency Management Committees (LEMCs); and Enhance catastrophe coordination, information management, and aboriginal informing systems astatine sub-national levels.

In his keynote address, Dr. Oluwaseun Olowoporoku, World Bank Urban Specialist, commended the Borno State Government for its committedness to protecting lives, livelihoods, and infrastructure from the expanding threats posed by clime alteration and disasters.

He described the engagement arsenic “a pivotal measurement toward gathering coordinated, evidence-driven systems that support some radical and improvement gains.”

Olowoporoku highlighted that Borno’s cultivation prominence and commercialized imaginable marque it peculiarly susceptible to floods, droughts, and related nationalist wellness challenges, recalling the devastating 2024 floods that displaced thousands and disrupted economical activities.

He said clime projections for the Northeast bespeak rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, and worsening hydrological conditions, each of which endanger nutrient information and the state’s economical stability.

“This is wherefore the World Bank, successful collaboration with the Borno State Government, is co-developing a robust, multi-hazard EP&R system. Our extremity is to fortify aboriginal informing capabilities, heighten cross-sector exigency coordination, and present catastrophe hazard financing mechanisms to cushion the fiscal interaction of disasters,” helium added.

Earlier, the Director-General of Borno SEMA, Ali Abdullai, pledged the state’s afloat enactment for the project, describing it arsenic a transformative measurement toward gathering resilience and safeguarding susceptible communities.

He said the inaugural would importantly boost the state’s catastrophe absorption capacity, amended preparedness strategies, and guarantee a faster, much businesslike effect to emergencies.

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