The International Labour Organisation (ILO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have launched the ‘Supporting Sustainable Social Protection Systems in Nigeria’ project.
Funded by the European Union (EU), the project, also called ‘SUSI’, seeks to bolster Nigeria’s social protection structures, ensuring more comprehensive coverage and aid for vulnerable groups across the country.
The Ambassador of the European Union Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS. Gautier Mignot said the project aims at supporting the expansion and digitalisation of the National Social Register (NSR) as an effective management information system with improved mechanisms, to make it a shock-responsive system and a tool for policy planning towards poverty reduction and interoperable with other existing related databases.
The Ambassador stressed the importance of social protection in addressing poverty reduction,…
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