A few weeks back I was invited –contracted if you will- by the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning to provide rapporteuring services for a three-day National Summit of the ‘Social Protection Practitioners and Academics Dialogue’, SPADE-2.
To a Journalist, there is no better opportunity for grounding than this, in this new, globally-phenomenal empowerment scheme of Social Investment and Protection, which is targeted solely at the world’s poorest and most vulnerable. The National Coordinator of YESSO Hajiya Hajara Sami who reported progress on this program informed the summit on the result of YESSO’s recovery and peace based assessment in the Northeast which she said had given rise to an additional financing of $100 million to address issues in that troubled geo-political zone.
Responding to inevitable shocks in a manner that serves the purpose of a safety net, is what the NASSP is set up to do – especially via the National Social Safety Nets Coordinating Office NASSCO and the National Cash Transfer Office, NCTO. And so being a no-holds-barred conference, and at which all had agreed, to plainly ‘call a spade, a spade’ , both practitioners and academics were at their intellectual best, telling it all to a capacity audience of 420 participants drawn from representatives of the 36 states and the FCT, from the relevant federal and state ministries, the academia, policy makers, representatives of donor communities, Civil Society Organizations , Non-Governmental Organizations , International Development...
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