Pursuing the Development-Humanitarian-Peace Nexus
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Since its establishment, CARE Nigeria’s focus has been primarily on humanitarian response. Recognizing the protracted nature of the crisis in northern Nigeria and the fluidity of the context, CARE Nigeria is committed to building resilience and contributing to greater social cohesion, while carrying out lifesaving interventions through a humanitarian response.
This focus on the humanitarian-development-peace nexus will entail context-responsive programming, for instance, integrating resilience and peacebuilding where appropriate, and preparing to respond to humanitarian crises in a development setting, if they arise. Our strategies include:
- Embedding crisis modifiers in program design and budget to enable resilience and long-term projects to respond to frequent shocks and stresses, as well as transitional food insecurity, based on scenario planning.
- Reprograming of development funds for emergency response activities in the event of shocks/disasters to protect development gains, in coordination with the donor.
- During the recovery period, using cash-based transfers to rehabilitate/construct productive assets that strengthen resilience and alleviate humanitarian suffering. This will utilize humanitarian mechanisms that align with development principles.
- Working with partners and consortium members in long-term interventions; improving sequencing, layering, and integration of projects in the same geographic areas; while learning from ongoing Nexus Initiatives in Nigeria.
- Mainstreaming conflict sensitivity and community approach that fosters social cohesion while increasing engagement with partners specialized in peacebuilding.
- Monitoring our geographic coverage to support sequencing, layering, and integration of projects.
- Systematically undertaking Do No Harm Analysis before the project starts to avoid resource-based, social, and political tensions and audit for Do No Harm in project evaluations.
- Documenting and learning from our nexus efforts in a conscious systematic manner.
- Improving communication internally and between different actors.