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LAKE CHAD BASIN OUR COMMON HERITAGE

22nd October, 2015 Adam Dimari

ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY IN THE LAKE CHAD BASIN

Lake Chad Basin Commission

Introduction: The Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) was established on 22nd of May 1964 by the four countries that border Lake Chad: Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria and Chad. The Republic of Central Africa joined the organization in 1996, Libya was admitted in 2008. Observer status is held by Sudan, Egypt, the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo and N’Djaména, Capital of Chad where the Headquarters of the Commission is situated. The mandate of the Commission is to sustainably and equitably manage the Lake Chad and other shared water resources of the Lake Chad Basin and to promote regional integration, peace and security across the Basin.

We have achieved tremendously during the 2006 Conference in Chad with the members of the Nigeria delegation on the Resuscitation of the Lake Chad Basin. Those in attendance includes The President of Lake Chad Basin Commission (2003-2007) Hon Mohammed Umara Kumalia, the Secretary LCBC, Ministers, Parliamentarians from Member States of the LCBC, Cameroun, Niger, Chad, Nigeria, Republic of Congo and DR Congo, International Partners, Environmental organisations, Non-governmental organisations and the members of the press. All the programmes were good and interesting including the briefs on the international donor conference programme that would follow later. When the project is implemented it will benefit over 30 million people.

Lake Chad Basin

The Lake Chad is shared by Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon. It is located between 12° and 14° 20 N, 13° and 15° 20 E. The sailing area is situated at the altitude of 283 m.

The Lake Chad basin covers a surface area of about two million square kilometer. Which is equivalent to the Caspian Sea, which existed 600 years AC. The Lake Chad is fed by the Chari and Logone rivers. In the western part, another tributary, the Komadogou Yobé also crosses a marshy plain. It displays three major types of landscape.

Many islands located in the eastern bank, which match the emerged summit of immerged erg dunes.

Areas of open water
Rooted or floating vegetation islands called bench islands (mostly Cyperus papyrus and water reeds).

Environmental Development and Sustainability

The Lake Chad is progressively receding due to increase in atmospheric temperature that lasted for extended period of time (Climate Change). The environmental issues identified were the unstable of the ground water movement and fresh water availability, water pollution, ecological effects of biodiversity, and effects of biodiversity on ecosystems. sedimentation in rivers and water bodies.

The environmental effects by the receding Lake has turned millions of economically buoyant Nigerians to near abject poverty, forcing them to become refugees in neighbouring countries.

The Lake Chad basin was in its key-days, one of the Africa’s leading fields in the production of rice, wheat, beans, maize, potatoes, onions, dried fish and livestock, most of which were traded in Nigeria.

Chad Basin Development Authority Commercial farming Commercial farming — Chad Basin Development Authority

The federal government needs to take the lead in the current international efforts to save the lake, it is of strategic interest to Nigeria government for the Lake to be resuscitated because to create millions of jobs, reviving of the multi-billion naira federal government investment Chad Basin Development Authority and also for the exploration of Oil and Gas . The neighbouring Countries have already gone far in the Oil and Gas industries tapping from the same source of the Lake Chad.

To sustain a awareness and development process by way of several different tracks requires the ability to inform with facts, to be able to inspire, and some practical engineering of mandates and budgets. It needs to be able to drive discourse at high level to inspire political interest.

Environmental issues are already front and centre in Nigeria’s media eye. In recent years, the media has focused on climate change, promoting in particular the need to plant trees. The impact of Climate Change in the Lake Chad has highlighted the need for a media spotlight to put the issues to the public, to encourage debate on causes and solutions.

Laka Chad Open Water — River Congo – Water transfer site

Suggestions

A. Strategic Approach

The central issue to address is; to widen and deepen understanding of the strategic importance of the environment, across the political and institutional board, to encourage its prioritization, and to stimulate demand for further donor support for Lake Chad Basin water transfer.

B. Practical Guide to Supporting Key Drivers

The main aim is to kick-start a process for environmental awareness and strategic development, beyond what exists, to lay the foundations for re-orienting political, economic, institutional, and personal mindsets.

1.Target the University of Maiduguri, ABU, Ibadan, and Port-harcourt to build solid knowledge and data on environment and natural resources in terms of

Professionalism,Training and Development

Improved quantity and quality of water in the Lake Chad Basin
Restoration, conservation and sustainable use of bioresources in the Lake Chad Basin
Conservation of biodiversity in the Lake Chad Basin
Restoration and preservation of ecosystems in the Lake Chad Basin
Strengthened participation and capacity of stakeholders, and institutional and legal
frameworks for environmental stewardship for the Lake Chad Basin (all factors of production) as central to core business and profits

Lake Chad Water Transfer Project — Frameworks

2. Support private sector associations to formulate the National Business Agenda vis a vis the Environment as the foundation for profits and national development.

Environmental Conservation — Environment Conservation & Preservation

3. Run media training workshops for conventional broadcasters and broadsheet journalists which focus on the wider importance of the environment to

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the economy, to stability, development, and how it affects the ordinary Nigeria consumer.

Environmental Journals — Environmental Journalism

We sincerely appreciate the opportunity and commitment of the Nigeria delegation headed by the President Hon. Mohammed Kumalia towards the agenda of resuscitating the Lake Chad Basin by member countries and to the Friends of the Lake Chad, thank you.

Prepared by Adam Ali Dimari

Built Environment

BORNO STATE REHABILITATION, RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

19th October, 2015 Adam Dimari

WHAT PRIMEFIELD LIMITED (PFL) DOES IN THE BORNO STATE REHABILITATION, RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT AS PART OF ITS CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Primefield Limited (PFL) provided part of its Hotel estate in Maiduguri for resettlement and rehabilitation. Also sponsoring NGOs and the disaster management experts to takes stock of the overall situation of disaster-affected local government areas (LGAs) and assesses needs for rehabilitation measures and sustainable recovery of growth and development in the food and agricultural sectors in the medium to long-term. This assistance is aimed at reducing susceptibility to further disasters and emergencies.

Within this framework, PFL team identifies investment opportunities and formulates programmes and projects for donor funding. This includes programmes to assist resettlement and reintegration of refugees, internally displaced persons and ex-combatants.

PFL plays a role in following-up immediate agricultural relief with longer-term programmes such as dams and irrigation systems, markets and crop storage facilities etc.

2.1 BUILDING A PROGRAMME APPROACH

The objectives of PFL activities in rehabilitation, reconstruction and
recovery are to assist disaster-affected LGAs to move from a need
for emergency relief to sustainable development of agriculture, food security and nutritional well-being. This is achieved through the restoration of rural production systems, livelihoods, infrastructure, institutions and services affected by disaster. A coherent strategy and policy framework also must be established and priority programmes and projects for medium to long-term sectoral growth and development must be identified.

EFFORT 20% FOR 80% RESULT — 20% EFFORT FOR 80% RESULT

This may necessitate a wide range of interventions, encompassing the following: rehabilitation of the agricultural resource base;
reconstruction of agricultural infrastructure; re-establishment of reliable agricultural input supply systems; re-activation of agricultural services. Including marketing, processing and distribution systems; strengthening the capacity of local institutions/agencies to identify constraints to household food security and nutrition and the groups most affected, and to design and implement concerted strategies to address these constraints; recovery – or an opportunity for reform or replacement – of state and parastatal institutions for food and agriculture;
examination of technical options for future sectoral growth and
development; and establishment of a strategic and policy framework for selecting and pursuing appropriate options, and of the necessary regulatory systems.

These interventions would normally need to be considered within the context of an overall rehabilitation and recovery programme rather than piecemeal approach. This is due to the scale and range of the interventions required. The programme may need to address basic issues of options, strategies and policies for the agricultural sector. It must also relate to comparable programmes under development in other sectors by other international and bilateral agencies. Indeed donor funding for individual projects may only be forthcoming if those projects are situated clearly within a sector policy framework which addresses the whole range of issues raised by disaster impacts on the sector.

The post-disaster situation may represent a `clean slate’ which may
necessitate looking beyond a restoration of the pre-disaster situation. This is particularly the case with regard to sector strategies and policies, and state institutions and services. Such opportunities include investment in a more productive, equitable and efficient – and less disaster-prone – agricultural sector, development in livelihoods and food security. These opportunities lead to sustainable recovery. They must involve a high degree of participation based on existing community and local civil society structures and systems of authority.

Similarly, not only must longer-term recovery and development programmes build on rehabilitation interventions, but in view of the gestation period required for putting such programmes into practice the process of assessing options and developing strategies and policies for them must also begin early on in the rehabilitation process. Moreover, their design needs to incorporate appropriate elements of disaster prevention and preparedness if the recovery is to be sustainable. Where the risk of emergencies is related to unresolved social tensions, whether latent or overt, this necessarily includes strategies for promoting sustainable peace.

To be continued

2.2 ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

2.2.1 PFL’s Policy Co-ordinating Service (PCOS) PFL’s Investment Centre (PIC) and PFL’s Special Relief Operations Service (PSROS) Roles

Built Environment

BORNO STATE RECONSTRUCTION REHABILITATION AND DEVELOPMENT

13th October, 2015 Adam Dimari

BASIC CONCEPT – RECONSTRUCTION REHABILITATION AND DEVELOPMENT

Reconstruction rehabilitation, and development refer to measures that help restore the livelihoods, assets and production levels of emergency-affected local government areas. These measures rebuild essential infrastructure, institutions, and services and restore the means of production destroyed or made non-operational by a disaster.

Reconstruction and rehabilitation assistance is geared towards limiting the need for relief and allowing development activities to proceed towards promoting sustainable livelihoods.

To be continued

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