By Abubakar Yunus
The Director General of the Institute For Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR), Dr. Joseph Ochogwu, has stated that social protection is a major policy instrument that will primarily address some of the issues we are striving to find solutions for.
Ochogwu made this declaration during the opening ceremony of the conference on social protection and economic uncertainties, organized by the Conflict Research Network West Africa (CORN) in partnership with the Institute For Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR) in Abuja yesterday.
He explained that from 2015 to the present day, social protection has become a significant policy instrument that the Nigerian federal government uses to tackle the issues of inequality across the country.
“For our studies, the strategic conflict assessment of Nigeria and several other studies have identified poverty and unemployment as the major drivers of conflict across the country.”
While discussing the conference, Ochogwu noted that what social protection does is an inclusive process, aiming to include vulnerable people within the government’s circle. However, it’s worth mentioning that there is a wide gap between policies and research policies and their actual implementation.
