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country as micro-credits <strong>to</strong> improve their<br />

livelihoods; and<br />

The Village Economic Development Solution<br />

(VEDS), which is a micro-credit scheme used<br />

by NAPEPin the villages throughout <strong>Nigeria</strong><br />

<strong>to</strong> uplift the lives <strong>of</strong> the rural poor in<br />

recognition <strong>of</strong> the fact that poverty is deeply<br />

rooted in the rural areas <strong>of</strong> the country.<br />

NAPEP collaborates with many federal and state<br />

agencies all over the country <strong>to</strong> implement these<br />

programmes through which micro-credits are<br />

channelled <strong>to</strong> the poor in order <strong>to</strong> empower them.<br />

Apart from NAPEP‘s intervention programmes,<br />

earth dam projects that are implemented through<br />

the Conditional Grants Scheme (CGS) are also<br />

part <strong>of</strong> the DRGs-funded poverty and hunger<br />

reduction programmes <strong>of</strong> the government.<br />

Findings<br />

The objective <strong>of</strong> Goal 1 <strong>to</strong> reduce by half poverty<br />

and hunger between 1990 and 2015 was<br />

implemented through the following NAPEP and<br />

CGS projects/programmes during 2009:<br />

NAPEP/CCT consisting <strong>of</strong> 468 programmes<br />

implemented across 23 states and the FCT;<br />

Skills acquisition consisting <strong>of</strong> 112 projects<br />

implemented across 14 states and the FCT;<br />

and<br />

Earth dams (CGS), consisting <strong>of</strong> 13 projects<br />

executed in Benue and Imo states.<br />

The fight against poverty in <strong>Nigeria</strong> is making<br />

slow but steady progress<br />

RasheedatAlabi, is a female beneficiary <strong>of</strong><br />

NAPEP CCT programme. Before the<br />

intervention <strong>of</strong> the programme, she was unable<br />

<strong>to</strong> feed and pay the school fees <strong>of</strong> her five<br />

children, because her husband is jobless. But<br />

with the intervention she was able <strong>to</strong> pay for all<br />

her children‟s school fees and set up a business<br />

<strong>to</strong> source her livelihood.<br />

Salman Jimoh is physically challenged. He lost<br />

his right leg by amputation due <strong>to</strong> an accident.<br />

This has made him unable <strong>to</strong> source for his daily<br />

bread and <strong>to</strong> meet the needs <strong>of</strong> his family <strong>of</strong><br />

eight children. But now with the help <strong>of</strong> NAPEP<br />

CCT programme he was able <strong>to</strong> pay the school<br />

fees <strong>of</strong> his 4 children and set up a business<br />

centre in which he sells all network recharge<br />

cards.<br />

Adigun Yinusa is a poor peasant farmer from<br />

Igbo-Aran in Asa LGA <strong>of</strong> Kwara State. He is <strong>to</strong>o<br />

old and feeble <strong>to</strong> engage in farming activities any<br />

longer and therefore could no longer meet his<br />

daily responsibilities <strong>to</strong> his family due <strong>to</strong> lack <strong>of</strong><br />

funds. But with the intervention <strong>of</strong> NAPEP CCT<br />

programme, he is now a cottage businessman in<br />

his locality. He bought a deep freezer and sells<br />

s<strong>of</strong>t drinks and cold sachet water and can now<br />

meet his daily responsibilities.<br />

The <strong>to</strong>tal financial commitment <strong>of</strong> the DRG funds<br />

<strong>to</strong> the above direct poverty reduction initiatives<br />

<strong>to</strong>wards the achievement <strong>of</strong> MDG Goal 1 was<br />

approximately N4.6 billion.<br />

Out <strong>of</strong> 596 projects/programmes, 405 have been<br />

reported on the moni<strong>to</strong>ring portal at the time <strong>of</strong><br />

this report and the projects/programmes are at<br />

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