The Federal Government will assume full leadership of Nigeria’s humanitarian coordination system by January 1, 2027, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Dr Bernard Doro, disclosed on Tuesday.
Doro made the disclosure while briefing journalists after the opening of the Joint Humanitarian Transition Workshop, co-hosted by the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction and the United Nations at UN House, Abuja.
“The transition is on, and by 1 January 2027, government will assume full leadership of the transition,” the minister said, describing the transition as a major shift in the country’s aid architecture since the Boko Haram insurgency began in 2009.
The workshop drew major stakeholders to map a six-month roadmap for handing over the coordination of Nigeria’s humanitarian response from the UN system to national institutions.
Doro explained that Nigeria was among eight countries globally identified by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee for what he described as a humanitarian reset, where international organisations are withdrawing from the centre of humanitarian coordination and repositioning national governments as the primary actors.
