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Mind your language: communicating with
internally displaced people in northeast Nigeria
Ellie Kemp, TWB Head of Crisis Response
Photo: TWB/Paul Warambo
Internally displaced people have a “right to
communicate in a language they
understand.” (Guiding Principle 22)
Photo: IOM
Photo: TWB/Eric De Luca
The need to consider language barriers is implied
in several other principles: the right to protection
and humanitarian assistance (GP 3), to voluntary
return or resettlement, and to participate in
planning those processes (GP 28).
Photo: TWB/Eric De Luca
“Ensure public access to information and
protect fundamental freedoms” (SDG target
16.10).
“Access to information is directly linked to the
enjoyment of basic rights and freedoms and
influences the achievement of all the Sustainable
Development Goals” – Audrey Azoulay, Director-
General of UNESCO
Photo: IOM
30+ languages and dialects
Low literacy levels
Focus on Hausa and Kanuri
38% of IDPs are not receiving information
in their mother tongue (IOM DTM)
“[…] perceptions of bias along ethno-
linguistic lines linked with elite capture,
diversion of aid, conflict between
farmers and pastoralists and tensions
between IDPs and host communities” –
Feed the Future Nigeria Livelihoods
Project
Conflict sensitivity