Improving Resilience and Reintegration for School Kidnap Victims and their School Communities in Northern Nigeria

This request response provides a literature review to gather evidence-based best practices and explore
potential avenues for coordination and collaboration with other development partners to address
improving safety and community resilience in and around schools and reintegration of kidnap victims in Northern Nigeria.

The request encompasses four key questions:

1. What evidence exists – from Nigeria and elsewhere – about the needs of former abductees
(e.g. psychosocial support, social and emotional learning) and the barriers preventing their
successful reintegration into school and their communities?

2. What is being done and by whom to increase school safety and community resilience to
attacks in Nigeria?

3. What is being done and by whom to facilitate the reintegration of former abductees into
communities and education systems in Nigeria?

4. What evidence exists – from Nigeria and elsewhere – about the effectiveness of existing
approaches? What examples are there of alternative approaches that could be adapted to
the context of Nigeria/affected states?