Thread by @NigeriaGov

The @NSIP_NG is the largest Social Investment Programme in Africa. Overseen by @FMHDSD, under the leadership of @Sadiya_farouq, it comprises 4 programs:

@npower_ng
@NHGSFP
@geep_ng
@HUPcct

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.@npower_ng kicked off in 2016, and has between then and 2020 enrolled and supported 500,000 young Nigerians with monthly stipends, in exchange for work placements in education, agriculture and healthcare.

.@npower_ng has also made available digital skills training under its N-Tech and N-Creative components.

More than 100,000 beneficiaries of the N-Power Programme invested their stipends in setting up businesses, and are now business owners.

The first two batches of @npower_ng enrolees (Batches A and B) have now come to the end of the programme. Enrolment for the new batch (Batch C) closed in August 2020; more than 5 million young Nigerians applied for the 400,000 spaces available in Batch C.

Since inception, @geep_ng has provided loans to more than 2 million Nigerians – traders, artisans, farmers, unemployed youth, etc. During the Covid-19 pandemic alone, GEEP has provided relief (palliative micro-loans) to tens of thousands of petty traders.

@geep_ng is 100% digitised; all eligible beneficiaries are captured into an electronic database, including their mobile phone numbers, and supported by facial recognition technology, and disbursements are done into mobile wallets.

.@geep_ng‘s loan processes (Enumeration, Verification, Disbursement and Repayment) are all carried out using technology solution wholly designed and developed by Nigerian technology start-ups.

As at July 31, 2020, the Conditional Cash Transfer programme @HUPcct was in 39,901 communities in 429 LGAs of 34 States and the FCT, with 1.289 million benefiting households, comprising a total of 6.443 million persons.

Because of Covid-19 school closures, a modified version of @NHGSFP was introduced between May & July 2020, as a pilot program in FCT, Lagos & Ogun. In this modified program, instead of cooked food, raw food portions were handed out as take-home rations for pupils’ households.

Between May 14, 2020 and July 6, 2020, 29,609 households in the FCT, 37,589 households in Lagos and 60,391 households in Ogun benefited from this modified @NHGSFP, making a total of 124,589 households impacted.

The @NSIP_NG components have a substantial oversight component, involving civil society, and also Federal law enforcement agencies like the EFCC, ICPC and DSS.

For example, to ensure transparency in the implementation of the Modified School Feeding Programme, @FMHDSD partnered with the World Food Programme as technical partners and also invited the EFCC, ICPC, DSS and a number of NGOs to monitor the process.

The @HUPcct has seen scrutiny from a DFID-funded project called MANTRA.

Also, @npower_ng Beneficiaries are paid directly by the Federal Government from the Treasury Single Account (TSA) into BVN-verified accounts.