Npower News: Over One Hundred Thousand Anambra Households To Benefit From Conditional Cash Transfer
Over one hundred thousand vulnerable households in Anambra State are to benefit from the ongoing “Renewed Hope Conditional Cash Transfer Programme” of the Federal Government.
The Head of the Anambra State Conditional Cash Transfer Unit, Mr Ralph Enukora, revealed this in Awka over the weekend during an orientation training for desk officers from the twenty-one local government areas of the state.
Mr Ralph Enukora said that the Renewed Hope Conditional Cash Transfer Programme is a scale-up of the National Social Safety Nets Project that began more than five years ago and was meant for the poorest of the poor who were selected from the hard-to-reach areas of each state of Nigeria.
The newly upgraded conditional cash transfer scheme to accommodate vulnerable households in both rural and urban areas of the federation has the aim of lifting poor households out of poverty through the payment of a monthly stipend.
According to Mr Ralph Enukora, the beneficiaries drawn from the twenty-one local government areas of the state would receive ₦25,000 each for three months.
Mr Ralph Enukora revealed that they had been able to enrol over 50,000 persons out of the total number of beneficiaries before the conditional cash transfer programme was suspended by the federal government, revealing that the already-enrolled beneficiaries will start receiving their stipend this month, and other beneficiaries of the conditional cash transfer will soon be enrolled as plans towards carrying out the exercise are already complete.
Mr Ralph Enukora stated that the process for enrolment and payment to the beneficiaries is now digitised to ensure accountability and transparency, as the stipend will now be paid directly to the beneficiaries’ bank accounts.
On the importance of the training, Mr Ralph Enukora explained that the training was aimed at educating the desk officers on the new changes in the conditional cash transfer programme for proper implementation and management of the conditional cash transfer programme.
Also speaking, the Head of Operation Anambra State Cash Transfer Unit, Lady Florence Makah, reminded the beneficiaries that the conditional cash transfer programme is not a lifelong thing, hence the need for them to judiciously use the stipend to improve their businesses and their lives.
On his part, Management Information System Officer One, Anambra State Cash Transfer Unit, Mr Arinze Melifeonwu, praised the desk officers on the efforts made so far in ensuring success in the implementation of the conditional cash transfer programme in the state, encouraging them to sustain the tempo.
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