'Kwara'll reduce COVID-induced hardship on vulnerable citizens'

Date: 2022-11-15

Senior Special Adviser on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to Kwara State Governor, Dr. Jamila Ibrahim, has said the state will do its possible best to mitigate the hardship the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) imposed on residents.

Ibrahim said the state would concentrate its resources on rural women and youths across the state, until a larger percentage of them had benefited from multifarious relief packages from the state government. She spoke, yesterday, in Ilorin, during a programme by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in partnership with the state government.

The event, among others, was observed to launch Post-COVID-19 Socio-Economic Revitalisation Support Programme to make unconditional cash transfer to vulnerable residents of the state.

Her words: “This launching of economic revitalisation programme for vulnerable communities affected by COVID-19 in Kwara state by UNDP seeks to complement existing developmental initiatives in Kwara that ensure social security.

“We must commend our governor for relentless efforts to improve human capital and create an enabling environment for the SDGs to thrive in Kwara.”

She added that the scheme would also help in the achievement of SDGs Target 2.3 (Zero Hunger), which aims to double agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers by 2030.

Appreciating the UNDP and Federal Government for the initiative, she said that evidence abound to prove that the cash transfer programme for vulnerable people could end extreme poverty.

“Cash transfer to vulnerable people has proven to be a workable solution to extreme poverty. There are documented evidences of how putting money directly in the hands of the needy has helped to refocus the global efforts to empower people. It gives people the power to dictate the direction of their own future.

“In Kwara, we have long domesticated the cash transfer policy of President Muhammadu Buhari. It works for us as it has worked for the Federal Government. Through our Social Investment Programmes (SIPs) and some other interventions, we have reduced the poverty rate from 30.2 per cent to 20.4 per cent. We have also helped young people to grow their businesses,” she said.

The state government commended UNDP for its roles in making the world a better place.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

James Kolo     Omu Aran     KWATMA     Bursary     Student Learning Support Helpline     Kwara State Infrastructure Development Fund     Umar Ahmed Gunu     Yusuf Badmus     Sa\'adatu Modibbo-Kawu     Habeeb Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Kaosarah Adeyi     Oasis Muslim Care Foundation     Kawu     Gbugbu International Market     Ilorin Like-Minds     Mohammed Ajia Ibrahim     Saliu Ajia     Dauda Adesola     Post Utme     Tafidan Kaiama     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Sayomi     Muhammad Akande Olarewaju Odunade     Ado Bayero     Isaac Gbenle     Makama     Umar Ayinla Saro     Sambo Murtala     Olusegun Adeniyi     Sherif Shagaya     Olatunji Moronfoye     Alore     Adamu Attah     April 11     Oke-Ode     Abdullateef Abdussalam     The Herald     Offa Descendants Union     Ayo Adeyemi     Aishatu Ahmed Gobir     Yakubu Danladi     Afin Descendants Union Of Odo-Owa     Abubakar Baba     Jimoh Lambe Abdulkareem     Mujtabah Bature     Sulyman Tejidini     Tosin Saraki     Oniye     Tafida Of Kaiama     Iliasu     Odo-Owa     Federal Allocation     Age AbdulKareem     Saudat Abdulbaqi     Ogidi-Oloje     KWAFFA     Wahab Egbewole     Ahmed     Dasuki Belgore     Shagari     Abdulrazaq Adebayo     Saduki Lafiagi     Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja     Yakubu Mohammed Abdullahi     Olaitan Adefila     Naira Redesign     Oba Abdulrahim     Mamman Saba Jibril     Wale Oladepo     Monthly Sanitation Exercise     Folashade Omoniyi     Edu     Bola Shagaya     Olayinka Olaogun     Mary Kemi Adeosun     Yusuf Zulu-Gambari    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Maimunat Oniyangi     Nigerian Army     Oloyede     Mahmud Ajeigbe     Olaosebikan     Oloje     Ilorin Likeminds Foundation     Sulaiman Gado     Sulyman Abdulkareem     Aremu Odolaye     Musbau A. Akanji     College Of Health     Alaiye     Budo-Egba     IsDB     Benin Republic     Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     Oke-Oyi     Omar Gambari     Kale Bayero     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Adamu B. Yaqubu     Alao Ayotunde     Babs Iwarere     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Usman Rifun     COVID     Ohoro Of Shao     Muyideen Ajani Bello     Cornelius Adebayo     20 Billion Bond     Balogun Gambari     Lanre Jimoh     Madawaki Of Ilorin     Sarafadeen Kayode Akorede     Sardauna Of Ilorin     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Young Progressives Party     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     Sam Onile     Ilorin International Airport     Monthly Sanitation Exercise     Agboola Abdulraheem     Lola Olabayo     Kamoru Kadiri     Saeedat Aliyu     Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman     Road Transport Employers Association Of Nigeria     Balogun Ajikobi     Azeez Bello     Clement Yomi Adeboye     Third Estate     IPSAS     Joseph Yemi Ajayi     Ilorin West/Asa Federal Constituency     Babaloja-General     Mumini Ishola Hanafi     Ibikunle Ogunleye     CUTI     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Saheed Popoola     Press Release     Ilorin Talaka Parapo     Memunat Monsuma     Moses Rahman Popoola     Garuba Alikinla Shittu     Ministry Of Women Affairs And Social Development     Oke-Ogun     Leke Ogungbe     Kwara 2023     Eghe Igbinehi     Kwara North     Folorunsho Alao     Dasuki Belgore     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Amina El-Imam