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By Steve Oko
UMUAHIA – Thirteen cardinal euros European Union-funded Sustainable Social Protection System (EU-SUSI) project, has been launched successful Abia State.
The three-year task is being implemented by UNICEF, and the International Labour Organisation, ILO, successful 4 Nigerian states including Abia.
Speaking during the motorboat successful Umuahia, the EU Head of Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Ambassador Gautier Mignot said the task ” is aimed astatine strengthening Nigeria’s societal extortion system, expanding sum for the astir vulnerable, and ensuring that nary 1 is near behind”
According to him, concern successful societal extortion complements EU’s shared goals successful education, health, sex equality, and economical development.
The EU Ambassador commended UNICEF and ILO for their collaboration successful the implementation of the project.
He besides commended the Abia State Government for its committedness towards societal protection.
In a goodwill message, UNICEF Representative successful Nigeria, Wafaa Saeed, said the task “is a committedness that families and children volition not autumn done the cracks”.
The connection which was work by the Chief of Field Services, UNICEF Nigeria, Ms Judith Leveillee, said that societal extortion “is not conscionable a information net, but a springboard that allows radical to unrecorded with dignity to grow, and to thrive”.
“It’s a committedness that indispensable scope each children including those successful the astir distant village; the parent whose struggling to marque ends conscionable for her children; the aged people; and the radical with disability. It’s besides a committedness for young radical whose aboriginal depends connected us”, she said.
She commended Governor Otti for showing leadership; and for demonstrating committedness to the project.
The UNICEF Representative further said that “true committedness not to permission immoderate kid down is indispensable for immoderate authorities to execute durable and sustainable development.”
Emphasizing the request for reliable information successful effectual societal extortion involution successful Nigeria, UNICEF promised to assistance fortify Nigeria’s societal extortion initiatives.
“For us, it’s astir being capable to lend to fortify systems that tin withhold and withstand shocks and crises. The world is that lone 14.8% of each Nigerians astatine the infinitesimal payment from effectual societal protection. It’s precise little.
“Behind this percentage, determination are thousands of families, and children who are nether strain. But this tin change, and the SUSI task is determination precisely for that.
“We privation to physique stronger policies. We privation to person amended data. We privation to person smarter coordination, and amended collaboration.
“UNICEF wants the champion for Nigerian children – wherever each kid is protected, each household is supported, and each assemblage is empowered.
Promising continued method support, and commending EU and ILO for the partnership, UNICEF solicited the enactment of each stakeholders for the occurrence of the project.
Speaking astatine the event, Governor Alex Otti, commended EU, UNICEF and ILO for the project, which, helium said would bring immense alleviation to a batch of families.
He noted that EU’s interventions successful health, education, environment, energy, and large-scale enactment for susceptible radical “have greatly improved the societal and economical acquisition of tens of thousands of individuals and families.”
The Governor said the inaugural would greatly heighten the state’s capableness to physique connected the gains that had been made connected the societal extortion beforehand since helium came connected board.
“I americium peculiarly gladsome that the programme is designed to relation successful ways that grow our scope by bringing much radical into the societal information net.”
Pledging afloat enactment for the project, Otti said his medication had already acceptable up well-structured platforms similar the State Ministry of Poverty Alleviation and Social Protection, Abia State Commission for the Welfare of Disabled Persons, and Abia Stat...
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