• Adopts OHOPRS to tackle duplication, gaps in help
Sunday Ehigiator
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has accredited the One Humanitarian One Poverty Response System (OHOPRS), a nationwide framework designed to combine humanitarian help, social safety and poverty discount below a coordinated system.
The approval was secured on Wednesday following the presentation of a memorandum by the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Dr. Bernard M. Doro, on the Council assembly in Abuja.
According to a press release issued by the ministry yesterday, the framework is a key element of President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda and is meant to present a coordinated method to lifting hundreds of thousands of Nigerians out of poverty.
The ministry mentioned humanitarian interventions, social safety programmes and poverty discount initiatives had operated largely in isolation throughout authorities companies, improvement companions and humanitarian organisations, leading to duplication of efforts, gaps in protection and restricted pathways for susceptible households to obtain long-term restoration.
It defined that OHOPRS was designed to tackle these challenges by putting households on the centre of planning, service supply and affect measurement.
Under the framework, households affected by emergencies, together with conflict-related displacement, would proceed to obtain instant help equivalent to meals, shelter and healthcare, whereas additionally being linked to social safety programmes, training, expertise acquisition and livelihood assist.
The ministry mentioned the method was supposed to be certain that emergency aid served as the start line for restoration, resilience and eventual financial self-reliance.
“For too lengthy, humanitarian help, social safety and poverty discount have operated as separate interventions.
“OHOPRS brings them together, so that vulnerable Nigerians are not simply assisted during emergencies but supported along a structured pathway towards recovery, resilience and economic independence,” Doro mentioned.
The minister mentioned the FEC approval had moved OHOPRS from a nationally adopted framework into the formal structure of the Federal Government.
He added that the success of the initiative can be measured by how successfully interventions labored collectively to enhance the lives of Nigerians, moderately than by the variety of programmes undertaken.
The framework was developed with technical enter from improvement companions and different stakeholders throughout a workshop held on the United Nations House in Abuja in March 2026.
It was subsequently unveiled on August 26, 2026, by the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, alongside the minister, on the Banquet Hall of the State House, Abuja.
Following the FEC approval, the ministry mentioned it could work with related authorities establishments, subnational authorities, improvement companions and different stakeholders to implement the framework.
The ministry didn’t present a selected implementation timeline or particulars of the funding preparations for the system within the assertion.
OHOPRS is anticipated to present a coordinated construction for humanitarian response and poverty discount interventions, with the goal of bettering protection, lowering duplication and connecting susceptible Nigerians to longer-term assist.
