A camp resident collects water in Maiduguri, Borno State. Photo: IOM 2020 IOM NIGERIA COVID-19 PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE SITUATION REPORT: 1 JUNE - 31 JULY 2020 During the reporting period, 696,325 individuals were reached with targeted hygiene promotion messages in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states through the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM), and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) teams. Fifty-six awareness-raising sessions were conducted across six Local Government Areas (LGAs) reaching 28,887 vulnerable individuals living in camps and host communities to address perceptions of risk to the pandemic. In coordination with the MHPSS partners and as co-chair of the MHPSS sub-working group for the north-east, IOM produced an assessment tool to understand community members’ attitudes, perceptions and myths towards COVID- 19 in Borno state. The insights gained are integrated into the RCCE messaging. Through the Migrants as Messengers volunteers, IOM reached over 754 traders located in various markets in Lagos, Delta and Edo states. 650 pieces of Information Education and Communication (IEC) materials on safe migration pathways, 30 posters on COVID-19 preventive measures and trafficking in persons, and stickers containing COVID-19 preventive measures were distributed. RISK COMMUNICATION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT (RCCE) 1 Close to 300 Nigerian migrants assisted to return from Mali and Niger. 91,164,058 litres of water supplied to 118,827 people in north-east Nigeria. POINTS OF ENTRY (PoEs) In collaboration with WHO), IOM supported PoE and flow monitoring activities recording the movement of approx. 1,219 persons at 17 PoEs. Details of the movement can be found on IOM Nigeria’s COVID-19 point of entry dashboard. INFECTION AND PREVENTION CONTROL (IPC) IOM installed 23 handwashing stations across IDP camps in Jere and Dikwa, Borno State, and four additional handwashing stations in camps in Gerei and Yola North LGAs in Adamawa State, bringing the total number of handwashing stations under the COVID-19 response to 315 in nine LGAs in Borno and Adamawa. During the reporting period, IOM supplied 91,164,058 litres of water from 60 solar boreholes and 24 handpumps for 118,827
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A camp resident collects water in Maiduguri, Borno State. Photo: IOM 2020
IOM NIGERIA
COVID-19 PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE SITUATION REPORT: 1 JUNE - 31 JULY 2020
During the reporting period, 696,325 individuals were reached
with targeted hygiene promotion messages in Borno,
Adamawa and Yobe states through the Water, Sanitation and
Hygiene (WASH), Camp Coordination and Camp
Management (CCCM), and Mental Health and Psychosocial
Support (MHPSS) teams.
Fifty-six awareness-raising sessions were conducted across six
Local Government Areas (LGAs) reaching 28,887 vulnerable
individuals living in camps and host communities to address
perceptions of risk to the pandemic.
In coordination with the MHPSS partners and as co-chair of
the MHPSS sub-working group for the north-east, IOM
produced an assessment tool to understand community
members’ attitudes, perceptions and myths towards COVID-
19 in Borno state. The insights gained are integrated into
the RCCE messaging.
Through the Migrants as Messengers volunteers, IOM reached
over 754 traders located in various markets in Lagos, Delta
and Edo states. 650 pieces of Information Education and
Communication (IEC) materials on safe migration pathways,
30 posters on COVID-19 preventive measures and trafficking
in persons, and stickers containing COVID-19 preventive
measures were distributed.
RISK COMMUNICATION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT (RCCE)
1
Close to 300 Nigerian
migrants assisted to return
from Mali and Niger.
91,164,058 litres of water
supplied to 118,827 people
in north-east Nigeria.
POINTS OF ENTRY (PoEs)
In collaboration with WHO), IOM supported PoE and flow
monitoring activities recording the movement of approx. 1,219
persons at 17 PoEs. Details of the movement can be found
on IOM Nigeria’s COVID-19 point of entry dashboard.
INFECTION AND PREVENTION CONTROL (IPC)
IOM installed 23 handwashing stations across IDP camps in
Jere and Dikwa, Borno State, and four additional handwashing
stations in camps in Gerei and Yola North LGAs in Adamawa
State, bringing the total number of handwashing stations under
the COVID-19 response to 315 in nine LGAs in Borno and
Adamawa.
During the reporting period, IOM supplied 91,164,058 litres of
water from 60 solar boreholes and 24 handpumps for 118,827
Nigerian stranded migrants returned from Mali via humanitarian corridor. Photo: IOM 2020 Chylian, a returnee volunteer under Migrants as Messengers during sensitization session. Photo: IOM 2020
seasonal migration (14%) and tourism (4%) and the main
modes of transport identified for all flows were car (74%), bus
(21%), and foot (3%).
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