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Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P):
Community Services Women and Youth Employment (CSWYE)
Programme
Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P):
Community Services Women and Youth Employment (CSWYE)
Country
Nigeria
Geographic area
Sub-Saharan Africa
Previous programme
name (if any)
Start date The SURE-P programme began in 2012. 1
Programme objectives
To provide temporary employment opportunities
to unemployed and unskilled women and youth. 2
Programme type Cash for work 2
Programme components Part of the larger SURE-P programme 2
Conditionalities (if any)
Targeting methods Community-based targeting 2
Target areas Nationwide 2
Target groups Working-age people 2
Eligibility criteria
Beneficiaries are Nigerian men aged 18–35, and women aged 18–50, who are
poor, with no other source of income and with no more than a secondary school
educational qualification. Thirty per cent of the beneficiaries must be women and
20 per cent of the work opportunities are reserved for other vulnerable groups,
including people with disabilities, widows, people living with HIV/AIDS, people
living in border communities, and people with albinism. Participation in the
programme is also restricted to one member per household at a time. 2
Eligibility reassessment (if any)
Type of benefits Cash 2
Amount of benefits
NGN10,000 per month for five hours of work per day (five days per week or
20 days per month). In cases where the beneficiary works less than 20 days
per month, the amount due is set at the rate of NGN500 per day. However,
if the beneficiary works less than five days in a month, no stipend is granted. 2
Payment/delivery frequency Monthly 2
Benefit delivery mechanism Payment is made by the 25 th day of each month via the designated
project banks or via mobile money options through GSM phones. 2
Benefit recipients
Beneficiaries
Minimum and maximum
duration of benefits (if any)
Coverage 123,049 jobs have already been created (the expected coverage is 185,000 people). 3
Programme expenditure NGN15.7 billion has been disbursed as monthly payments,
and NGN1.6 billion has been spent on management costs. 3
Institutions and agencies Government of Nigeria
involved
Monitoring and evaluation
mechanisms and frequency
Supervisors are in charge of monitoring the beneficiaries work through the
production of daily time-sheet reports and weekly returns on the performance of
each beneficiary. These reports are then sent to the State Project Implementation
Unit (SPIU), where information is entered into the payment schedules database. 2
See the references on page 187: (SURE-P): Community Services Women and Youth Employment (CSWYE)
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