{"id":24692,"date":"2020-02-20T11:05:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T10:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=24692"},"modified":"2020-02-20T11:05:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T10:05:12","slug":"social-protection-uk-spends-n12-billion-on-pregnant-women-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=24692","title":{"rendered":"Social Protection: UK spends N12 billion on pregnant women, children\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Achiever Peterson<\/strong>, Kaduna
\nThe Department for International Development, an agency of the United Kingdom has spent over N12 billion on the improvement of the welfare, nutrition and livelihood of vulnerable and pregnant women and children in Jigawa and Zamfara states.
\nThe expenditure came through an unconditional transfer programme targeting pregnant women and women who are breastfeeding children.
\nThe Senior Advocacy and Policy Specialist with one of the implementing partners,\u00a0Save the Children International, Saheed Mustapha, stated this during the ongoing Child Development and Grant Programme Social Protection training for civil society organisations and the media in Kaduna.
\nThe CDGP is a UKAid funded social protection programme, implemented by Save the Children and Action Against Hunger that commenced in Nigeria in 2014.
\nDuring its first phase, the CDGP was positioned as a “cash plus for nutrition\u201d, aimed at contributing to the reduction of the high malnutrition levels in Northern Nigeria, by targeting and providing cash-transfer to pregnant women and women with children under the age of two years, in selected communities of Zamfara and Jigawa states.
\nNow in its second phase, CDGP Phase II would focus on supporting the Federal Government and selected state governments (Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano and Zamfara) to strengthen their social protection systems, in order to contribute to a greater coverage of inclusive and accountable social protection.
\nThrough support to federal level institutions and programmes, CDGP will also contribute to systems and capacity strengthening across all 36 states.
\nThe ultimate aim is to ensure the existence of an enabling environment, strong systems and adequate capacity for the scale up of social protection in the country, thus contributing to the country\u2019s poverty reduction efforts and simultaneously improving the ability, opportunity and dignity of the poor and vulnerable.
\nMustapha said over 110,000 women in Jigawa and Zamfara States were captured in the first phase of the programme for 33 months.
\nHe said that majority of the women were opportune to have accessed a N4, 000 stipend from the point of conception, while others had enrolled and started enjoying the fund from either their second or third trimester.
\nMustapha however said all the women captured in the CDGP had access to the grant for the first 24 months (two years) of the child.
\nHe stated that the second phase of the programme was specifically designed to offer technical support and policy direction to the Federal Government and Kano, Kaduna, Jigawa and Zamfara States.
\nMustapha clarified that the first phase of the programme was aimed at servicing delivery to vulnerable women across five Local Government Areas of Jigawa and Zamfara States.
\nHe said, “It is most valuable to invest in the first 1,000 days of a child which is the stage of development. About N12 billion was spent in two states of Jigawa and Zamfara with 110,000 direct beneficiaries getting N4,000 unconditional transfers for 33 months from conception to when the baby is two years.
\n“The 33 months is broken down into the; nine months of the pregnancy and the 24 months after delivery.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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