'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.

Okin Biscuits     Yahaya Dumoye     Kwara     SAPZ Project     Lawal Olohungbebe     Rebecca Olanrewaju     Oni Adebayo     Mamatu Abdullahi     Lithium     Offa Descendants Union     Kwasu     Nigerian Correctional Service     Sai Kayi     Al-Hikmah University     Olaoye B. Felix     Universal Basic Education Commission     John Olobayo     Woro     Saadu Yusuf     Offa Grammer School     Hameed Oladipupo Ali     Ariyo     Abdulrazaq Solihudeen     Kayode Zubair     Muhammadu Gobir     Abdulkadir Akanbi-Oke     Aliyu Sabi     Egbejila     Isiaka Yusuf     Bilikis Oladimeji     Offorjama     Senior Ibrahim Suleiman     Issa Memunat Moyosore     IDPU     Alfa Belgore     Mohammed Abduraheem     Lateef Alagbonsi     Fulani     SSA Youth Engagement     Musa Ayinla Yeketi     Isa Aremu     Idowu Aremu     Maryam Nurudeen     Micheal Imoudu     Sanusi Abubakar     Olaiya Lawal     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Musa Abdullahi     Kayode Oyin-Zubair     Alapansapa     Kemi Adeosun     Abdulkadir Jimoh     NIPR     Osuwa     Ibrahim Abdullahi     Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board     Dagbalodo     Kudirat Arinola Lawal     Bola Magaji     Kayode Laro     Lateef Fagbemi     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     Babatunde Idiagbon     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Kwara Volleyball Association     Ibrahim Sulu Gambari     Post Utme     A.O. Belgore     Habeeb Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Kwara State Governor     Maimunat Oniyangi     N-Power     UNILORIN Alumni     Isin     High Court     Abdulrasaq Alaro     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Fatai Olodo     Modupe Oluwole     Flights To Ilorin     Jebba     IQRA College     Shonga Farm Project     Ayo Opadokun     Bello John Olanrewaju     Olota Of Odo-Owa     Olaosebikan     Local Government Pension Board     Kunle Okeowo     Lanre Issa-Onilu     Olumide Daniel Ibitoye     Makama Of Kaiama     Abdulrazaq Aiyelabegan     Femi Oladiji     Mashood Dauda     Muftau Akanbi Oke     Kumbi Titiloye     Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen     Sango-UITH Road     University Road     Yahaya Seriki     Olufolake Abdulrazaq     Samuel Elizabeth Keatswa     Dapo Teni Nig Enterprise     Al-Hikmah University     Reuben Paraje     Modibbo Kawu     Albert Ogunsola     International Aviation College     Oye Tinuoye     Ganiyu Abolarin     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Abdulfatah Ahmed     Third Estate     Hakeem Idris     Olusegun Adeniyi     Quarry Royal Valley     Bashir Adigun     Minister     Aliyu Kora Sabi     Ahmad Ali     Sheikh Ridhwanullah     Hassan A. Saliu     COVID     Towoju     Arca Santa     Oyedepo     Public Holiday     Bello Abubakar     TIIDELab     Magaji Nda     James Ayeni     Olosi Of Osi     Ijagbo Health Centre     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Dunmade     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     Olatunde Olukoya     Bisi Oyeleke     Fatai Garuba Labaka     NULGE     Isiaka Oniwa     Minimum Wage     Taofik Mustapha     Oro Grammar School Old Students Association     Olatunde Oyeyiola     Kale Bayero     Apaokagi     David Adesina     Ajibola Ademola Julius     Umar Danladi Shero     Joseph Yemi Ajayi     Isau     Salihu Yahaya