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5 6 Social cohesiveness could also be advanced through the establishment of local development funds that garner contributions from various stakeholders, including the Federal Government and oil companies, but are managed locally. Promote environmental sustainability to preserve the means of people’s sustainable livelihoods. This report traces the many intricate links between the environment and sustainable livelihoods, demonstrating that environmental degradation and poverty are mutually reinforcing. This underscores the urgency of proactive steps to conserve natural resources, reduce pollution especially from oil spills and gas flares, and reach adequate targets for clean air and water, and soil fertility. There is a need to raise environmental awareness including through the provision of information based on the collection of credible data. Other necessary steps include instituting the polluter–pays principle, passing and enforcing environmental laws, institutionalizing equitable compensation regimes for oil and gas-related activities, ensuring environmental considerations in budgets across different sectors, and bolstering existing environmental institutions. Overall, environmental sustainability should be mainstreamed in all development activities. Environmental laws should protect the rights of citizens, establish mandatory environmental standards for the oil and gas business that are not below average global standards, and provide easier access to judicial redress when either the government or businesses violate people’s rights. Take an integrated approach to HIV&AIDS Any human development agenda must factor in the burdens imposed by HIV&AIDS. The Niger Delta now has HIV prevalence rates that are among the highest in Nigeria. Since HIV&AIDS is much more than a health issue, dealing with it requires an integrated approach involving federal, state and local governments, the NDDC and other government agencies, the private sector, civil society groups and international organizations. Strong 7 leadership is needed at all levels to push for meaningful results. Policies need to focus not only on the control of the HIV virus, but also on coping mechanisms for the large number of infected people in the region. Potential strategies include strong advocacy among top-level policy makers coupled with public awareness campaigns on the multidimensional nature of HIV&AIDS, including in terms of high-risk behaviour. All forms of gender discrimination should be discouraged, and people should be educated on the laws against some risky traditional practices. Employers should establish work-place policies on HIV&AIDS, and oil companies should integrate HIV&AIDS assistance into their social responsibility and community development activities. State and local governments and the NDDC should institutionalize their responses to HIV&AIDS. Governments, oil companies, other private sector enterprises, NGOs and donors should collectively improve the quality and accessibility of health care and HIV&AIDS facilities and equipment. Build sustainable partnerships for the advancement of human development. The development of the Niger Delta region cannot be the responsibility of any one level of government alone. While the Federal Government can take the lead on overarching issues influencing development in the region, it has to work with many stakeholders and partners if change is going to be sustainable and meaningful. The different levels and branches of government should form partnerships around plans for sustainable development and the attainment of the MDGs; accountability and transparency in the use of available resources; the creation and sustenance of the right environment for meaningful development; the promotion of investment; social inclusion and popular participation in decision-making; broad-based consultations for peace-building; the deliberate empowerment of women and youth groups; and resource mobilization for de- Environmental sustainability should be mainstreamed in all development activities. Public awareness campaigns should recognize that HIV&AIDS is much more than a health issue. NIGER DELTA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 7
8 Many stakeholders must work together if change is going to be meaningful. velopment. For their part, organized private sector operators have already committed themselves to certain corporate social responsibilities, particularly those that improve their operating environment. They can now align themselves with a human development agenda in the delta by promoting good neighbourliness and mutual coexistence with host communities; shunning unscrupulous business practices and the abuse of the environment; embracing consultative processes and popular participation; providing mentoring programmes and scholarships to aid the development of critical industrial competencies; and exhibiting good faith in abiding by international best practices in compensation payments and their general operations. Community-based organizations and civil society groups can build partnerships to uphold legitimate avenues for redress— such as consultation and negotiation—for injustices and discontent arising from strained relationships among the government, communities and the oil industry. Community groups can promote local acceptance and ownership of socio-economic development reforms, and civic, voter and peace education for the acculturation of democratic tenets. They can motivate and mobilize youth to engage in political, social and economic processes, and act as pressure groups backing sustainable democracy. Finally, bilateral and multilateral donors can support the spirit of partnership by setting their development priorities in line with the guidelines and oversight functions of the Nigerian Government, and working consistently to achieve development symmetry through the harmonization of individual agency efforts and the avoidance of unnecessary duplication. Agencies such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) can call upon all partners to buy into a human development agenda, which will be the only guarantee of peace and prosperity for all concerned. NIGER DELTA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT
Page 2 and 3: SUMMARY NIGER DELTA HUMAN DEVELOPME
Page 4 and 5: Foreword Over the past four decades
Page 6 and 7: Acknowledgements The Niger Delta Hu
Page 8 and 9: OMPADEC Oil Mineral Producing Areas
Page 10 and 11: § The HP1-1 for the Niger Delta Re
Page 12 and 13: Background Overview The Niger Delta
Page 14 and 15: ut also presents a challenge to int
Page 16 and 17: 2 should be resolved. An oil trust
Page 20 and 21: CHAPTER ONE Introduction AMAZING PA
Page 22 and 23: aggregate, to how its peoples are f
Page 24 and 25: that allows tourism to thrive and s
Page 26 and 27: any mineral extracted in that regio
Page 28 and 29: put up similar resistance, but this
Page 30 and 31: and HIV&AIDS. The information sourc
Page 32 and 33: Box 1.7: Climate The Niger Delta ha
Page 34 and 35: 94 per cent of these have populatio
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Page 38 and 39: to pockets of the region, in the ab
Page 40 and 41: Housing pattern in a typical Niger
Page 42 and 43: Revamping the rural economy by opti
Page 44 and 45: NIGER DELTA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPOR
Page 46 and 47: CHAPTER TWO The Human Development S
Page 48 and 49: in terms of this access, the level
Page 50 and 51: the full burden of environmental de
Page 52 and 53: effective machinery to hold elected
Page 54 and 55: NIGER DELTA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPOR
Page 56 and 57: whether the overall level of povert
Page 58 and 59: available data suggest that females
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Page 62 and 63: Gas Flare at Umuchem Table 2.8: Com
Page 64 and 65: The HDI for the Niger Delta Region
Page 66 and 67: Table 2.10: Trends in Human Develop
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GDP index of 0.570. Chart 2.4 provi
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gender equity improves human develo
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development in the Niger Delta regi
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HDI, particularly in Bayelsa and Ri
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Map 2.6: Map of the Niger Delta Reg
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Table 2.14: Disparities in the HPI-
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Saharan Africa, the Niger Republic,
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Map 2.12: Map of the Niger Delta Re
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CHAPTER THREE Environmental and Soc
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of human life and economic activiti
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Chart 3.1: Quantities and Causes of
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Agency's (1991) environmental stand
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others. These changes have in turn
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B. Income-producing trees Avocado B
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abandon their traditional occupatio
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Box 3.6: Resolving the Niger Delta
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There is very little or no treatmen
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The flooding problem of the Niger D
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CHAPTER FOUR HIV&AIDS A CHALLENGE T
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five per cent. Nearly half the delt
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Map 4.2: HIV Prevalence Rates Among
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Chart 4.6: HIV Prevalence Trends in
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Orubuloye et al. 1992; Oyeneye et a
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the associated risks of HIV infecti
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stems from biological, social, cult
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Chart 4.10: State Responses to HIV/
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One particular point of outreach in
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CHAPTER FIVE Conflict and Conflict
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The most common and vicious forms o
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took control of Nembe and banished
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One of the shools destroyed during
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Box 5.3: Ogoni Bill of Rights, 1990
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groups have produced charters, decl
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understanding with host communities
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The frequent conflicts and the asso
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People. It presented its Ogoni Bill
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CHAPTER SIX Sustainable Livelihoods
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Table 6.1: Unemployment and Underem
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activity. Professionalizing the qua
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participants, is hard and tedious a
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Box 6.3: Environmental Degradation
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een largely limited to urban or per
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Table 6.5: Selected Community Devel
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drawing other industries to their l
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appropriate investment promotion me
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CHAPTER SEVEN A Human Development A
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Table 7.1: People’s Vision of the
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cushions the state’s economy agai
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purposes, and the property rights o
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tertiary schools, and for different
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identification of the potentials fo
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Box 7.3: In Mexico, New Forms of Tr
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• There should be support for mor
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In both Rivers and Delta states, mo
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Niger Delta Youths Metal fabricator
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4 PROMOTING SOCIAL INCLUSION The ag
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air caused by gas flares, the degra
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6 • appropriate and timely compen
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uild institutions for sustainable h
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• Act as pressure groups in restr
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Chapter One References African Netw
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Effluent on Some Biota of the Lower
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Agents of Environmental Regeneratio
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Sexual Networking: Identifying Part
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APPENDIX ONE Appendices Table A1.1:
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Table A1.4: Type of Housing Constru
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Yakurr 0.442 0.372 0.399 0.404 23.2
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Mbo 0.408 0.295 0.258 0.320 24.075
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Orlu 0.567 0.349 0.320 0.412 25.527
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Obudu 19.35 25.50 22.00 22.57 Odukp
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Ondo West 34.00 22.50 32.50 30.49 O
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Oshimili North 7.50 16.00 19.40 15.
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Ogu/Bolo 11.80 23.50 28.23 23.13 Ok
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Ose 0.466 0.556 0.234 0.419 Owo 0.5
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Owerri Municipal 0.506 0.658 0.249
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Akure North 0.000 0.924 0.067 0.330
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Ngor/Okpala 0.000 0.927 0.062 0.330
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47) L. Adele Jinadu Centre for Adva
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Technical Note TECHNICAL NOTE ON HU
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1.4 Interpolation for Missing Data
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• A long and healthy life, as mea
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