Buhari writes Senate, seeks legal framework for Social Investment Programme

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The federal government established the NSIP in 2016 to tackle poverty and hunger across the country.

The suite of programmes under the NSIP focuses on ensuring a more equitable distribution of resources to vulnerable populations, including children, youth and women.

The N-power programme is designed to assist young Nigerians between the ages of 18 to 35 to acquire and develop life-long skills for becoming change makers in their communities and players in the domestic and global markets and given a stipend of N30,000 monthly.

The support is conditioned on fulfilling soft and hard co-responsibilities that enable recipients improve their standard of living. The Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme is a micro-lending intervention that targets traders, artisans, enterprising youth, farmers and women in particular, by providing loans between N10,000 and N100,000 at no monthly cost to beneficiaries.

The Home Grown School Feeding Programme aims to deliver school feeding to young children with a specific focus on increasing school enrollment, reducing the incidence of malnutrition , empowering community women as cooks and by supporting small farmers that help stimulate economic growth.

 

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