UNHCR’s 2008 and 2009 programme in Nigeria aims to prevent ethnic and communal conflict by fostering peace and reconciliation through its work with the Nigerian Government’s humanitarian bodies, ECOWAS, UN Country team and others.

UNHCR will seek to empower some 10,000 returnees from Cameroon and other communities in the Sardauna local government area of Taraba State. UNHCR will push for the more effective utilisation of the ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement of Persons and Goods, Rights of Residence and Establishment through the local integration of the residual caseloads of Sierra Leonean and Liberian refugees in Nigeria.