Nasarawa State governmt in agreement with the world bank, and the Federal government has commenced the implementation of #8.3 bn tripartite programme to combat the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the state.
Nasarawa State coordinator of the programme , Umar Dahiru who disclosed this in a press conference in Lafia Friday said the programme is specifically for the poor and the vulnerable segment of the society.
Umar further explained that the COVID-19 pandemic which has already affected livelihood and businesses, pushing a large number of households into poverty, hence the urgent need to get pro- poor livelihoods and businesses back to recovery and normalcy gave birth to the Nigeria COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic stimulus programme.
He said the programme is in alignment with the country partnership framework of the World bank, the economic recovery and growth plan of the federal government and the policy thrust, which is the Nasarawa State Economic Development Strategy,all in the spirit of of building an inclusive Society that is founded on the principle of uplifting the status of of extremely poor members of the society to a better standard of living as well as supplying a sustainable livelihood.
According to the state coordinator, the areas of intervention of the programme includes social transfers support to livelihoods of poor and vulnerable individuals who are chronically ill,aged and living with disability. Public workfare for poor and vulnerable youths and women from communities inline with the state social register,. Micro projects for poor communities with basic infrastructures in education, health, nutrition,water and sanitation. Provision of farm inputs and services such as seed, fertilizer, and herbicides to poor individuals from farming communities, the provision of farmer assets for production to add value to harvested farm yields and mitigate food wastages to poor farming associations from communities.rahabilitation of rural roads and provision of access to the poor and rural farming communities from the farmlands to ( sales) markets and wet Market support through water and sanitation infrastructures to the COVID-19 realities.
The state coordinator further Stated that these seven implementations will be implemented by the state cash transfer unit- SCTU, the community and social Development Agency- CSDA, and the state Fadama coordination office,SFCO, in all the local government Areas in the state.
He therefore called on communities and key stakeholders at the community level in the state, to give necessary support and cooperation to the Staff of NG- CARES programme as they visits communities for the implementation of the programme.
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