By Peter Akpah.
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12 billion is so far spent on the social investment programme in plateau state according to the state focal person Dr Sumaye Hamza and more opportunities for beneficiaries in the state as the ministry has introduce more interventions and new programme she said.
One day sensitization workshop for program officers and beneficiaries of federal government intervention programmes with comprehensive analysis of efficiency of interventions of vulnerable population in the north central in jos a multi stakeholders forum and Dovell global consulting in collaboration with ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management & Social Development held at NOVEL SUIT in plateau.
Mr Rapheal Obi the director planning , Research and statistics in the ministry Humanitarian affairs, Disaster management and social Development(FMHADM&SD) who represented the hon minister at the one day sensitization workshop in plateau state applauded the focal person of the state Dr sumaye Hamza for her energetic work of the social investment programme as a pace setter, mr Rapheal said the ministry has introduce another programme called Rural Women Grant and is in about 25 States of the federal this is part of the government efforts to reduce women leaving in poverty in rural areas and to assist them with grants he also said the president Buhari through the ministry is doing well everything possible to empower more Nigerians and plateau state is one of the driving force through efforts of the governor and the focal person Dr Sumaye Hamza and the ministry is working tirelessly to see that all the programmes succeeds and impact more lifes.
WELCOME ADDRESS BY THE EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE GOVERNOR/FOCAL PERSON, NATIONAL SOCIAL INVESTMENT PROGRAMME, DR SUMAYE F. HAMZA ON THE OCCASION OF MULTI STAKEHOLDERS FORUM FOR COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF THE EFFICIENCY OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION ON VULNERABLE POPULATION, HELD ON THE 8TH FEBRUARY 2021 IN JOS, PLATEAU STATE
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We are delighted to welcome you all to this important efficiency analysis meeting, anchored by the Dovell Global Consulting in collaboration with the Ministry of Humanitarian Services, Disaster Management and Social Development, which we consider strategic and timely. We are all aware that the National Social Investment Programme which seeks to address issues of poverty, unemployment, nutrition, agricultural activities, paucity of manpower in the public sector especially in the area of health, education and agricultural extension services, has four components which are all implemented in Plateau State. These are, Job Creation; National Home Grown School Feeding, Conditional Cash Transfer and Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme.
We commend the efforts of the Hon Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development for her untiring efforts to ensure effective implementation of NSIP generally and particularly in Plateau State. The immense support of our focused Governor, Simon Bako Lalong who provided the enabling environment for us to operate must be put on record. The Governor has also put in place an agency, PLASMEDA, to complement the Federal Government effort.
The Job Creation component of NSIP popularly called NPower has the graduate and the non-graduate skill provision. We have 11,054 NPower beneficiaries in batches A and B that have exited the programme; while there are over 500 beneficiaries under NBuild, NCreative; there are 20,000 HouseHolds benefiting from CCT with over 50,000 HHs awaiting payment; we have 3,285 cooks feeding 219,581 pupils across the 17 LGAs in Plateau State; we equally have over 8000 beneficiaries of GEEP under Trader and Market Moni. Plateau state is among the 11 states benefiting from the Co-Responsibility intervention that targets pregnant and lactating mothers; additionally, Plateau State is among the six States that is benefiting from the NPower Junior intervention where two pilot fully equipped ICT Centers were constructed in two public schools. Cumulatively, over N12 Billion has so far being expended in Plateau State on these beneficiaries from inception. Glad to mention that payment is end to end and does not go through state or LGA or the Focal Office or cluster unit Heads. A sample of the beneficiaries is present at this meeting to share their successes and challenges moving forward.
At this juncture, it is my pleasure to warmly welcome you to this important activity, as I encourage our beneficiaries to share their thoughts in order to come up with a very robust resolution that will add value to the entire process.
Thank you all and God bless.
Representing the governor of plateau state prof Danladi Atu who declare the workshop open on behalf of the governor has commended the ministry of humanitarians Affairs, Disaster Management &Social Development for all their interventions and promise the state government support for the programmes to succeed and express his happiness over the choice of plateau as a state to start up some of the interventions as plateau state have the enabling environment to drive any programme forward as the state focal person Dr Hamza is doing a great work and she is making the state proud.
One of the beneficiary of the programme Rifkatu Yohanna Azi who benefited in one of the programme by getting a loan to start up business and she truly enjoy the intervention and also speaking on her challenges madam Rifkatu said the Covid-19 has really effected some of their businesses but before the Covid-19 out break her business was doing well so she called on the government to continue the good work and add more founding to the intervention as she have earlier benefited from the loan in the past for the seek of other women, and she commended the focal person Dr sumaye Hamza for her efforts as all the beneficiaries cut across all the states no discrimination any one who apply and is qualifies is given the opportunity.
And also speaking to one of the Agro beneficiary in an interview by name mr Badi Emmanuel N-Power Agro Plateau state shared his experience haven’t been a beneficiary and had the opportunity to travel to Germany and learn and get more trainning and now he is a consultant and can also train others all this is possible because of the socia investment programme and he appreciate the intervention and the opportunity given to him and promises to keep on collaborating the the intervention and get more beneficiaries trained.
The keynote speech was given by prof Ken Ife who charge and encourage the participants to be proactive and ask question where the don’t understand, and the guest speaker/ facilitator at the workshop for programmes officers and beneficiaries of the federal government intervention focus on all the areas of the programmes.
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