Our Terms & Conditions | Our Privacy Policy
From Okwe Obi, Abuja
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Nentawe Yilwatda, has ruled out cash and palliative distribution as measures to cushion the economic hardship in the country.
Yilwatda, who spoke on a monitored television programme on Tuesday, argued that trainings on financial literacy, automobile, agriculture and renewable energy were the way to go.
According to him, “You cannot solve humanitarian problems with humanitarian solutions. Humanitarian solutions are temporary measures, while the development solution comes in for long term impact that can move people out of poverty. So these are key things we are working with development partners.”
He disclosed that in the first week of February, “we are organizing a roundtable (meeting) with all the development partners, humanitarian partners, NGOs, CSOs, to ensure that we bring all our programmes we are doing this year to them openly.”
The Minister disclosed that the government will adopt the M and E processes, saying that “We have already given them the concept note and I told them to hold us accountable for all the programmes we are running this year. Some of them have already made inputs on how we can make it more transparent, more impactful.”
He reiterated that the programmes would not be transparent “to Nigerians alone but the international community. And that is the only way we can attract additional funding to what we are doing.
“Because when we make it transparent there will be investments coming in from donor partners. Development partners will trust us more and make sure that we reduce the poverty.
“The trust deficit we are talking about is not just for Nigeria alone but also the international community. We can also close those gap as a country and quickly reduce the poverty we are having around.”
The chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), divulged that the government would “send people to teach them financial literacy.
“That will empower them to exit because the target is not to just give them money; the target is that we support them out of poverty. And that is why we have other flagship programmes to exit. N-Power is an exit programme from poverty GEEP is an exit programme from poverty. So, we have programmes that will help these people.
“After the programme, they can group themselves, collect loans and start nano businesses in their communities as a group and exit poverty.
“Already, the government of the president has invested and gotten over 100, 000 items for 100,000 people from catering to vulcanizing to IT to agriculture. They are under our care now.
“This is an exit programme unlike before that you will have just people being given handouts and we are saying that we are moving them out of poverty.
“We are doing training programmes to support them. We are contracting consultants who will now select beneficiaries for us. We are starting three flagship programmes this year: automobiles, agriculture, and renewable energy.”
Images are for reference only.Images and contents gathered automatic from google or 3rd party sources.All rights on the images and contents are with their legal original owners.
Aggregated From –
Comments are closed.