 Action 8 Nigeria has signed a partnership with three universities in Nigeria to train and certify humanitarian workers in areas of conflicts in the country, particularly the not eastern part of Nigeria. The country director Action 8 Nigeria Andrew Mamedu says the aim of the initiative is to step up the development process of humanitarian development in affected areas and the people to build their resilience and their livelihood to last them for a long time. The three universities are the American University of Nigeria, Nassarawa State University and the University of Mamedu, Greece. How do we make sure that the development in those locations is also stepped up beyond just humanitarian response? How do we make sure that development is also stepped up? So that is where the whole discussion and argument, discussion around the humanitarian development and peace nexus came to play. How do we combine this? We are not just only responding to humanitarian, which is only responding to emergencies, but you are building the resilience of the people, you are building accountability, you are building their livelihood and they can then leave for face tomorrow. They have options to do for the next week, the next month, the next year, so they have plans for years to come. That is where the development comes to play. We really try to focus on the student learning to be a well rounded individual so that they have the abilities to not only be an entrepreneur, to start jobs, but also how to invest in people and regions and communities. When you can get a certificate and a program that allows you to be an aid worker with ethics and being very transparent, like Action Aid has been a great partner for the entire region and the Bay States, we need this and when you have people that are living in the region and serving in the region, they are more likely to do that. We even started a new public health program ourselves with the aim of working like with the WHO and other organizations, so this is perfectly in line for us. Other partners say the initiative will take governance approach to a higher level as the initiative will impact positively on the affected communities in the long run. I think that it's going to take governments approach to governance to a higher level in the sense that it will be more development focused and more impactful in communities. Right now, I think what is majorly at stake in Nigeria is how to improve livelihoods, given the level of poverty that pervades society. And so when professionals return to the university and given the knowledge and impacted the skills of how to reach out to their communities, I believe very strongly that the knowledge they acquire and the skills also that they gain would enable them in a comprehensive way. I believe that what we have just done will go a long way in solving some of the humanitarian issues that we are having due to the Boko Haram insurgency that is now doing way to peace. You know, there are so many IDP camps that have been closed, would have gone back to their ancestral homes, but still they need humanitarian aid. With this development now, we are going to at least even given the chance to put another diploma program in humanitarian studies. This will help us in actually extending our helping hands to the larger community.