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If you don’t do anything else today please read this interview with Maryam Uwais, from July 2018, about how the list of poor and vulnerable households eligible for the cash transfer is compiled.
But only if you’re interested in understanding. https://www.icirnigeria.org/national-cash-transfer-programme-why-some-states-have-more-beneficiaries-than-others/
But only if you’re interested in understanding. https://www.icirnigeria.org/national-cash-transfer-programme-why-some-states-have-more-beneficiaries-than-others/
Keep in mind that by the time the National Social Investment Programme kicked off in 2016, eight states had already started developing their own Registers, supported by the World Bank: Kwara, Bauchi, Cross Rivers, Niger, Kogi, Oyo, Osun, Ekiti. This formed the nucleus of the NSR.
So it’s from the National Social Register (NSR) that they Cash Transfer recipients (CCT) are being drawn.
CCT Payments started late 2016, in 9 States (the 8 States above plus Borno, being the epicenter of the BH insurgency): https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2017/01/presidency-begins-payment-n5000-monthly-stipend-poor-nigerians-9-states/amp/
CCT Payments started late 2016, in 9 States (the 8 States above plus Borno, being the epicenter of the BH insurgency): https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2017/01/presidency-begins-payment-n5000-monthly-stipend-poor-nigerians-9-states/amp/
By early 2018, the NSR (and CCT, by extension) had been expanded to 20 States: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pulse.ng/news/local/social-security-297000-vulnerable-households-get-stipends-in-20-states-nsip/yrnnfkd.amp
This is what the NSR looks like today, according to @NasscoNigeria:
