NEMA Seeks Collaborations With NGOs For Humanitarian Relief

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has sought collaboration with Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), providing humanitarian relief support to victims of various disasters in management of disasters in Niger State.
Head of Operations, NEMA, Minna Operations Office, Hajiya Zainab Sai’du made the call during a stakeholder meeting with the theme: “NGOs as Stakeholders in Disaster Management” in Minna
She said the objectives of the meeting were to bring various NGOs who were providing humanitarian assistance to victims of disasters in the state under one umbrella to help the agency with the rightful data of victims of disaster for relief assistance.
Sai’du explained that disaster management was multi-sectoral, multi-disciplinary and everybody’s business, adding that all hands must be involved to save lives and property.
She added that it was expedient for players in humanitarian service to work in synergy in order to avoid unnecessary replication of responsibilities and waste of hard resources.
“We are bringing faith-based and community-based organisations that deal with humanitarian activities together under one umbrella so that we can help each other out.
“Whenever we want to give humanitarian assistance, we will incorporate these organisations since they are based in communities and they know the rightful victims so that the relief items will get to the right people,” she said.
She noted that the agency was empowered by law to regulate and coordinate all organizations providing humanitarian support, adding that the meeting was to come up with a way-forward to make humanitarian service better in Niger state.