Breaking Barriers: Enhancing Safety, Dignity, and Resilience for Persons with Disabilities in the BAY States of Nigeria

About this project

ltpgtThis project directly responds to Envelope 3: Disability Inclusion under the NHF 2025 Third Standard Allocation Strategy by improving the safety, dignity, and equitable service access of Persons with disabilities and their caregivers in Maiduguri, Jere, Madagali, and Fune LGAs. Across Northeast Nigeria, Persons with disabilities continue to face systemic exclusion from humanitarian and development assistance due to physical inaccessibility, stigma, limited assistive devices, weak referral pathways, and under-resourced community structures. The 2025 HNO and HNRP confirm that Persons with disabilities have significantly lower access to essential services, including health, rehabilitation, PSS, social services, and protection, and remain among the most marginalized groups in the BAY states. The number of Persons with disabilities is steadily rising due to demographic trends and increased chronic health conditions, and most people will experience some form of disability at some point in life. Although Nigeria has taken important steps, such as the 2019 ratification of the Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition) Act and the domestication of disability laws in nine states including Yobe, implementation remains weak. The Nigeria Rapid Assessment on Disability Inclusion highlights persistent barriers, including discriminatory attitudes, harmful beliefs, and widespread stigma that manifest in rejection, neglect, and reduced self-worth. These social attitud…

Published by

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs · National NGO

Countries

Nigeria

Sectors

Multisector aid

Funded by

Nigeria Humanitarian Fund

Implemented by

Centre for Social Cohesion Peace and Empowerment

Accountable

Centre for Social Cohesion Peace and Empowerment

Published by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 9 Feb 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-OCHA-CBPF-CBPF-NGA-25-S-NGO-38239.

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