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country as micro-credits to improve their
livelihoods; and
The Village Economic Development Solution
(VEDS), which is a micro-credit scheme used
by NAPEPin the villages throughout Nigeria
to uplift the lives of the rural poor in
recognition of the fact that poverty is deeply
rooted in the rural areas of the country.
NAPEP collaborates with many federal and state
agencies all over the country to implement these
programmes through which micro-credits are
channelled to the poor in order to empower them.
Apart from NAPEP‘s intervention programmes,
earth dam projects that are implemented through
the Conditional Grants Scheme (CGS) are also
part of the DRGs-funded poverty and hunger
reduction programmes of the government.
Findings
The objective of Goal 1 to reduce by half poverty
and hunger between 1990 and 2015 was
implemented through the following NAPEP and
CGS projects/programmes during 2009:
NAPEP/CCT consisting of 468 programmes
implemented across 23 states and the FCT;
Skills acquisition consisting of 112 projects
implemented across 14 states and the FCT;
and
Earth dams (CGS), consisting of 13 projects
executed in Benue and Imo states.
The fight against poverty in Nigeria is making
slow but steady progress
RasheedatAlabi, is a female beneficiary of
NAPEP CCT programme. Before the
intervention of the programme, she was unable
to feed and pay the school fees of her five
children, because her husband is jobless. But
with the intervention she was able to pay for all
her children‟s school fees and set up a business
to source her livelihood.
Salman Jimoh is physically challenged. He lost
his right leg by amputation due to an accident.
This has made him unable to source for his daily
bread and to meet the needs of his family of
eight children. But now with the help of NAPEP
CCT programme he was able to pay the school
fees of his 4 children and set up a business
centre in which he sells all network recharge
cards.
Adigun Yinusa is a poor peasant farmer from
Igbo-Aran in Asa LGA of Kwara State. He is too
old and feeble to engage in farming activities any
longer and therefore could no longer meet his
daily responsibilities to his family due to lack of
funds. But with the intervention of NAPEP CCT
programme, he is now a cottage businessman in
his locality. He bought a deep freezer and sells
soft drinks and cold sachet water and can now
meet his daily responsibilities.
The total financial commitment of the DRG funds
to the above direct poverty reduction initiatives
towards the achievement of MDG Goal 1 was
approximately N4.6 billion.
Out of 596 projects/programmes, 405 have been
reported on the monitoring portal at the time of
this report and the projects/programmes are at
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