From :Femi Oyelola, Kaduna
A Social Protection Specialist with the Expanding Social Protection for Inclusive Development (ESPID), project Mr. Victor Ogaranduku has said Nigeria’s Social Protection systems are highly exclusive, hence the need for the Government to deepen it to improve the welfare of the vulnerable Nigerians
He asserted this during a 3 Days Capacity Building training for Civil Society Organizations, Grievance Redress
Mechanism (GRM) service providers, Media and Ministries, Departments and Agencies MDA’s held in Kano from yesterday supported by the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO) and implemented by Save the Children International (SCI)
Mr.. Victor argued that deepening social protection would allow the government to provide a safety net for vulnerable individuals and communities within the country.
He added that if the system is inclusive as expected more girls, women and informal sectors will benefit from all the SP interventions.
The Social Protection Specialist observed that despite the importance given to social protection policies at both national and state levels, social protection coverage remained limited in Nigeria.
He therefore stressed the need to improve social protection in the country, because more Nigerians were falling into extreme deprivation and vulnerability.
In her welcome address, the ESPID program Manager in Jigawa state Stella Esedunme opined that Gender-based violence (GBV) or violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a global pandemic that affects women in their lifetime.
Stella Esedunme added that about 35% of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence; globally,
She therefore urged the participants to take advantage of the training to equip themselves with the latest information and methods in addressing the GBV issues, saying the training is part of measures to raise awareness of the high rate of sexual and gender-based violence.
Lawal Rabiu Tasfe the Social Protection Specialist in Zamfara said the objectives of the meeting include building the capacity of participants on GBV to further carry out sensitisations on GBV in communities and create awareness on the availability of GBV service providers for survivors.
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