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Nigeria disburses N24.4bn to 23 States, FCT under Conditional Grant Scheme

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July 29, 2022
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The Federal Government says 23 States and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have so far received N24.4billion from its Conditional Grant Schemes as inventive to invest more into areas of national development priorities.

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The disbursement of the fund, under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) began in 2015.

It was introduced in 2007 with a 50 percent marching grant from the federal government and 50 percent from the participating states.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on SDGs, Mrs. Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, who disclosed this in Abuja, while briefing State House correspondents, said the grants were targeted at education, health, water and sanitation projects.

She said it was also aimed at executing pro-poor projects in a consultative manner with the beneficiaries.

She explained that the money was spent on the implementation of 732 water and sanitation facilities; 494 health facilities (new facilities and renovation/rehabilitation); 616 education facilities (new construction, renovation/rehabilitation of block of classrooms; 1,150 women and men were empowered/trained in vocational skills, such as sewing, knitting, detergent & pomade making etc.)

The SDGs boss said there were special intervention projects across the geo-political zones, an initiative aimed at strategic investment to fast-track the achievement of the SDGs in Nigeria.

She said: “Between 2016 and 2021, a record number of projects have been implemented, aimed at providing essential services to accelerate the achievement of the SDGs, by ensuring no Nigerian is left behind.

“In the education sector, 8,008 classrooms constructed and 305 renovated with furnishing to strengthen basic education across the country.

“A total of 4,845 Desktop and Laptop Computers have also been supplied to schools across the country for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) training.

“In the health sector, 195 Health Centres, comprising Primary Healthcare Centres (PHC) and Mother and Child Centres (MCC) were constructed, complemented with the supply of 199 Intensive Care and Rural ambulances.

“About 257 incubators and 7,464 regular and automated hospital beds were supplied across tour health facilities.

“In other cross-cutting sectors, OSSAP-SDGs constructed 66 Vocational and Skills Acquisition Centres; supplied 1,294 transformers; provision of 19,266 solar-powered streetlights; 300 Housing units for internally displaced persons (IDP) in Borno State; and 925 Solar Boreholes, in addition to several other interventions.”

Orelope-Adefulire also spoke on some findings from 2020 voluntarily national review, indicating that from Nigeria’s 2nd Voluntary National Review (VNR) 2020 on SDG-3, the country faces challenges on health outcomes, such as high rates of maternal mortality, there have been significant reduction in the under-five mortality rates (from 157 to 132).

According to her, Nigeria’s current access to basic drinking water now stands at 64% as according to her, the review emphasised the need for more investment in public health and to ensure the most vulnerable are reached through universal access to basic healthcare services.

“On SDG-4, a key challenge confronting the country has to do with Out-of- School-Children, a demographic challenge that relates to an interplay between employment (SDG-8), education (SDG-4), poverty (SDG-1) and the digital economy (SDG-17).

“With a population of approximately 200 million people, regional disparities are significant.

“On SDG-8, Nigeria’s informal economy is one of the largest on the continent – estimated at 53 per cent of the Labour force and accounting for 65 per cent of GDP. It is estimated that 75 per cent of all new jobs are informal.

According to the presidential aide, ensuring youth are well-trained and able to transition to productive employment through the digital economy can help reduce poverty and help diversify growth away from oil and gas.

“In addition, the Nigerian government can dramatically shift to digitization and strengthening its transition to e-government to facilitate its social protection to the poor and vulnerable population.”

On ending poverty in all its forms everywhere, reducing poverty and sharing prosperity under SDGs Goal 1, she said the federal government had maintained steady investment in expenditure in health, education, and other social services between 2015 and 2018 “because investments in these areas are essential and integral to addressing poverty.

“With about 10.8 million out of school children and more people drifting into poverty, Nigeria’s expenditure on education just about 8.6 percent in 2015 and witnessed a steady decline to 8.2, 8.5 and 8.2 percent in 2016, 2017 and 2018.’’

She said this was largely due the 2016 economic recession and the decline in global oil prices and COVID-19 pandemic.

On Goal 2 of Zero Hunger, the presidential aide stated: “Findings from the baseline showed that the prevalence of undernourishment in 2016 for stunting, moderate stunting and severe stunting were 32.9 percent, 20.4 percent and 12.5 percent respectively, while in 2019 the report indicated 32 percent stunting, and 21.2 and 10.8 percent for moderate and severe stunting respectively.

“Thus, we had modest decrease in severe stunting.”

On Goal 3, which is Ensure Healthy Lives and Promote Well-Being for all at all Ages, she said the summary of the baseline indicated that the rate of under-five mortality rate (meaning that for any child born in a specified year to survive before reaching the age of 5) per 1,000 live births in 2016 was 128/1,000 live births but had reduced significantly to 100 in both 2018 and 2019.

She, however, announced that the population of Nigerians covered by the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) for better quality of life via the removal of financial barriers increased from 634,154 for males and 266, 618 for females in 2016 to about 781,057 for males and 332,742 for females.

She stated that this represented an increase of about 26 percent national coverage.

For Goal 4, she affirmed that participation rate of youth and adults in formal and non-formal education and training in the previous 12 months increased from 4.97 percent in 2016 to 5.38 in both 2017 and 2018.

According to her, for Goal 8, Nigeria faced economic challenges, which was a fall out of global oil price crash and insufficient foreign exchange earnings to achieve balance of trade.

On reducing inequality within and among countries under Goal 10, she pointed out that in 2016, the Labour share of GDP was 25.17 percent, and witnessed a steady increase to 26.06 percent and 26.61 percent in 2017 & 2019.

According to the SDGs boss, the Nigerian government has demonstrated strong commitment towards the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and the SDGs.

She further revealed that institutional Frameworks had been established at the national and sub-national levels to support effective implementation of the SDGs.

“Thus, Nigeria is leading in the institutionalization of the SDGs.

“The SDGs cannot be achieved with stand-alone programmes and projects. They must be carefully integrated into national and sub-national policies and development plans. Currently, we have integrated the SDGs into the Nigeria’s National Development Plan (2021-2025) and we presently supporting 16 States to develop SDG-Based Development Plans.

“It is our hope that all 36 states and the FCT will eventually develop SDG-Compliant-Development Plans. This is our approach to Mainstreaming, Acceleration and Policy Support (MAPS),’’ she stated.

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