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The national government, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) person launched a determination societal extortion model and operational program designed to fortify systems that safeguard the poor, displaced, and susceptible crossed West Africa.
The framework, archetypal endorsed by ECOWAS ministers successful November 2023, volition tally until 2028 and is intended to usher subordinate states successful designing, implementing and monitoring inclusive societal extortion policies.
Speaking astatine the high-level advocacy and dissemination store successful Abuja yesterday, curate of authorities for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction Dr Yusuf Tanko Sununu described the model arsenic a landmark determination committedness that aligns with ECOWAS Vision 2050.
Represented by the ministry’s manager of societal development, Valentine Ezulu, helium highlighted Nigeria’s ongoing efforts to fortify its societal extortion systems, noting advancement nether the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu.
He disclosed that implicit 5.5 cardinal households are already benefiting from the digitised conditional currency transportation programme, with plans to grow sum to an further 600,000 households earlier the extremity of 2025.
He besides pointed to initiatives specified arsenic the accomplishment to wealthiness programme, aimed astatine equipping young Nigerians with industry-relevant skills successful areas similar renewable vigor and agriculture.
The curate said, “The Nigerian authorities is committed to ensuring that nary national is near behind,” stressing that reforms are underway to harmonise overlapping societal extortion initiatives crossed ministries for greater efficiency.
“More than 5.5 cardinal households are presently benefiting with plans to scope an further 600,000 households nationwide earlier the extremity of the year, these systems volition guarantee that nary Nigerian is near down adjacent successful the astir hard times,” helium added.
The manager of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Office for Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and liaison bureau for ECOWAS, Dr Vanessa Phala, stressed that societal extortion is not lone a quality close but besides an economical necessity.
She observed that portion planetary sum stands astatine 52 per cent, sub-Saharan Africa lags with lone 15.4 per cent of the colonisation accessing astatine slightest 1 signifier of benefit.
She urged governments successful the portion to standard up concern successful societal extortion floors, guarantee portability of entitlements for migrant workers, and prosecute much efficaciously with societal partners to present change.
On the determination front, the ECOWAS commissioner for quality improvement and societal affairs, Prof Fatou Sow Sarr, and planetary partners welcomed the model launch, describing it arsenic a turning constituent for inclusive maturation successful West Africa.
The caput of the ECOWAS societal affairs division, Dr Alves D’Almade, besides appreciated Nigeria for hosting the lawsuit and reaffirmed ECOWAS’ committedness to advancing the determination plan.
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