We’ve Added One Million Households To National Social Register For Cash Transfer – Sadiya Umar-Farouq

The Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, says the National Social register now has captured 3.6 million households, from 2.6 million, which the ministry is using to make cash transfers.

Minister in charge of the ministry, Hajiya Sadiya Farouq, disclosed this on Monday during the presidential taskforce briefing on COVID-19 in Abuja.

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Farouq, who was responding to a question on what her ministry would do going forward, she noted that the ministry was adopting strategies to support the poor and the vulnerable affected by the pandemic and the lockdown.

She said “The ministry will also continue to leverage on the structures and agencies and programmes to provide assistance, going forward to the people that have been affected by this pandemic and the lockdown

“For instance, for the cash transfer we have adopted a number of ongoing programmes to quickly scale up the support using the existing national social safety net projects platform for the current chronic poor, who have been affected by the lockdown.

“As you may also be aware from the onset of the pandemic, the National social register contain a data of about 2.6 million. Now am happy to say that we have about 3.6 million individual households that are currently in the national social register and we are tapping from this register to give cash transfer to these vulnerable households. We are also in talks with our partners, the UN for instance, to see how we can support the communities that are now greatly affected by the pandemic in 20 local governments or maybe more to see how we can support these household with another cash interventions.

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“We are working now with the department of the security services for them to provide us with information as it relates to communities that are most hit, facing humanitarian crises. We have a dashboard where this information will come in and it will indicate to us in either red or green numbers to quickly take interventions to these communities,” she concluded.

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