AUN has been in partnership with UNHCR since 2016. The partnership with the UNHCR Under Protection Safety-Net and Livelihood Project offers comprehensive livelihood programs to internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugee returnees and host community members in Borno, Yobe, Gombe, and Adamawa States.

Since the inception of the partnership, AUN, with funding from UNHCR, has targeted more than 10,000 affected populations with a wide range of activities,

which includes agriculture, microbusiness, livestock production and rearing, vocational skills development, fishery, crop farming, among others, through training and distribution of business start-up packs and or working capital.

Impact of Livelihood Program

The program recorded a lot of achievements and has impacted beneficiaries positively; one of the key achievements, in addition to many others, is the successful training of beneficiaries and the support received to start businesses; through that, beneficiaries were able to generate income and meet their basic family needs. AUN recorded an impressive number of Persons who are now able to engage in business (production, buying, and selling) and render services in their communities

Significantly, the interventions have reshaped the lives of beneficiaries through the livelihood opportunities given to them. Many of them are now skilled, employable, and employers of labor. Persons who, before the intervention, rely on food distribution interventions to feed themselves and their families but are now producing and selling excess harvest in the market to meet their basic needs and grow their economy.