Key pointsThe National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), with support from UNICEF, is strengthening emergency preparedness and response through community engagement training in Gombe. Emergency preparedness and response officials from Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Plateau, Taraba and Yobe are participating. UNICEF says the training is designed to strengthen preparedness, accountability to affected populations and the use of data in community-based emergency response. Main StoryThe National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), with support from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), is strengthening community-based emergency preparedness and response through a three-day capacity-building programme in Gombe. Tepikor urged participants to share experiences and good practices and apply the knowledge acquired to strengthen emergency preparedness in their respective states.