Management Of Internally Displaced Persons Camp The Roles Of National And State Emergency Management Agencies In Adamawa State

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to assess the management of internally displaced persons’ camp:  the roles of national and state emergency management agencies in Adamawa State. Three research questions guided the study which adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population of the study consists of 2500 respondents. The study adopted stratified random sampling techniques to select the respondents for the study. However, the sample size for the study was 250 which was 10% of the total population. The structured questionnaire was developed by the researcher titled “Questionnaire on the Roles of Emergency Management Agency in the Management of IDPs Camps (QREMAM-IDP)”. The instrument was validated by three experts and a reliability of 0.81 was obtained using Cronbach Alpha method. Mean was used to answer the three research questions respectively. Findings of the study revealed the that the challenges associated with management of IDP camps in Malkohi and Damare in Adamawa state including others: inadequate funding, corruption, lack of communication, inadequate facilities for housing the victim, it was also revealed that NEMA and SEMA face some challenges in which they try to surmount effectively.  It was recommended among others that. Government at both national and state levels should provide NEMA and SEMA with the necessary funds in order to provide the IDPs with the necessary needs and NEMA and SEMA should partner with both public and private organizations to support and functions effectively.