Over 200,000 youths from poor households in Nigeria are to receive life skills training between 2014 and 2017 under the Social Protection and Labour Programme of the World Bank.
The bank made the plan known in its report on: “Nigeria Country Partnership Strategy 2014-2017’,’ released in Abuja yesterday.
According to the report, the programme intends to increase the number of states using the unified registry of beneficiaries and common targeting mechanism from 0 to not less than 10 by 2017.
It is expected that: “More than 200,000 youths from poor households received re-orientation and life skills training.
“Also about 40 per cent increase in the number of beneficiaries from targeted poor households receiving cash transfers conditioned on utilisation of education and health services”, the report said.
It stated that the poor in communities would be selected using a combined geographical and community-based targeting system in order to benefit from the programme.
“The population in poor communities will also benefit jointly from community driven initiatives and government structures and systems will be revitalised for sustainability,” it stated
It explained that governance and institutional issues hampered the effectiveness of social protection system.
According to the report, a well-developed social protection system can give adequate support for the large segments of the population that suffer from vulnerable circumstances in Nigeria.
“It can also help mitigate challenges in achievement of some MDGs by 2015, particularly MDGs 4 and 5.
“Governance and institutional issues, such as poor targeting system, weak collaboration and coordination, inadequate monitoring and evaluation and absence of policy guidance hamper effectiveness of social protection systems,” it stated.
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