1 FGN SPECIAL INTERVENTION PROJECTThe Special Intervention Project is designed for delivery under five clearly defined programs: Restore livelihoods, economic opportunities & sustenance for the poor 1 2 3 4 5 Home Grown School Feeding (HGSF) Enterprise & Empowerment Program (GEEP) Target: 5.5 million pupils Target: 1.66 million beneficiaries STEM Bursary Program School feeding for primary school children from foods locally sourced from within the country Financial inclusion & access to credit for market women, artisans, women coops, youth & farmers Financial support for tertiary students studying courses in Education, Science & Technology, Engineering & Maths Target: 100 thousand students N-power Cash Transfers (NCTP) Job provision to train unemployed graduates as volunteers, and non-graduates as artisans. Direct cash transfers of N5,000 monthly to targeted poor & vulnerable households Target: 500,000 graduates & 100,000 trainees Target: 1 million beneficiaries KEY DRIVERS FOR SUCCESS: Technology, Communication, Coordination amongst stakeholders, Monitoring & Evaluation Social Investments, OVP

2 Social Investments, OVPSub-Programs: N-Power Paid Volunteer Teacher Corps for Graduates (N-Power Corps) Training and Empowerment for Knowledge Work (N-Power Knowledge) Build Nigeria Program for Training and Empowerment of Artisans (N-Power Build) STEM Junior and Senior Programs N-Power is designed to help young Nigerians acquire and develop life-long skills to become solution providers in their communities and to become players in the domestic and global markets Social Investments, OVP

3 Social Investments, OVPN-Power Corps Program Design Details. Description/Objective It is a volunteer program, that aims to provide temporary jobs in the areas of primary education, agriculture, public health and community education (civic and adult education) Program to last for 2 years after which beneficiaries will exit the program, with devices. Beneficiaries can also exit the program before the expiration of the 2 year period, as they are encouraged and trained to apply for permanent jobs and to also set up their own businesses (entrepreneurship). Target To engage and train 500,000 young unemployed graduates in year 1 Eligibility and Method of Selection Open to all unemployed Nigerian graduates between the ages of 18 and 35 All beneficiaries must apply via the N-Power portal This selection criteria shall be implemented by a selection committee comprising relevant officials of the relevant Ministries and the private sector. Draft selection criteria will also be sent to States for approval Induction/Training Training will be undertaken virtually, although there will be an induction period in the beginning. Trainees will receive devices (tablets) installed with various training materials that will enable them build their capacity to get decent jobs and/or set up their own businesses if they are not absorbed by Government. Beneficiaries will be given access to the N-Power learning portal where they will be able to continue their learning process. Exit skills will also be available on the learning portal. Deployment: Jobs, Internships and Mentoring Trainees under the N-Power Volunteer Teacher Corps will be deployed to their immediate rural and local communities, where they will assist in improving the inadequacies in the education, health and agriculture sectors States will determine the areas of need and assist in the deployment of beneficiaries to the communities Key Stakeholder Ministries and Agencies Federal Ministry of Education, Health, Agriculture, Labour & Employment, Youth & Sports, Budget & National Planning, Communications, NOA, NDE, SMEDAN, CSOs Social Investments, OVP

4 Social Investments, OVPN-Power Knowledge Program Design Details. Description/Objective It is a training to jobs initiative ensuring participants can get engaged in the marketplace in an outsourcing capacity as freelancers, as employees and entrepreneurs The program is segmented into three streams: N-Power Creative; N-Power Tech (Software) and N-Power Tech (Hardware) Beneficiaries of the N-Power Creative program will be trained and certified in one of the following courses: Animation, Graphic Design, Post-production, Script Writing Beneficiaries of the N-Power Tech (Software) program will be trained, equipped and supported to meet local and international demand for software developers, web designers and other technological needs Beneficiaries of the N-Power Tech (Hardware) will be trained to repair, maintain and assemble mobile phones, tablets, computers and other devices The training will last for 3 months, made up of 1 month in-class, and a 2 month hands-on group project Target To engage and train 25, 000 young unemployed graduates and non-graduates in year 1 Eligibility and Method of Selection Open to all unemployed Nigerians between the ages of 18 and 35 All beneficiaries must apply via the N-Power portal This selection criteria shall be implemented by a selection committee comprising relevant officials of the relevant Ministries and the private sector. Draft selection criteria will also be sent to States for approval Induction/Training Training will be undertaken on-site. Trainees under the N-Power Creative, and N-Power Tech (Software) will receive devices (tablets), while participants under the N-Power Tech (Hardware) will receive toolboxes appropriate to their training Beneficiaries will be given access to the N-Power learning portal where they will be able to continue their learning process. Exit skills will also be available on the learning portal. Deployment: Jobs, Internships and Mentoring At the end of the Knowledge training, the trainees will get local and international industry grade certification and internship opportunities while others will be linked to job and market opportunities. This will end with career fairs, entrepreneurial demos for projects, and global outsourcing linkages. Key Stakeholder Ministries and Agencies Federal Ministry of Science & Tech, Education, Labour & Employment, Youth & Sports, Budget & National Planning, Information & Culture, NOA, NDE, SMEDAN, ITF, NITDA, CSOs Social Investments, OVP

5 Social Investments, OVPN-Power Build Program Design Details. Description/Objective It is an accelerated training and certification (skills to job/enterprise) program that will engage and train unemployed Nigerians in order to build a new crop of skilled and highly competent workforce of technicians, artisans and service professionals. The focus industries include: Building, Construction & Environment Services, Utilities and Engineering, Hospitality and Catering, Automotive, Aluminum and Gas. The training will last for 3 months, made up of 1 month in-class, and a 2 month hands-on group project Target To engage and train 75, 000 young unemployed graduates and non-graduates in year 1 Eligibility and Method of Selection Open to all unemployed Nigerians between the ages of 18 and 35 All beneficiaries must apply via the N-Power portal This selection criteria shall be implemented by a selection committee comprising relevant officials of the Ministries and private sector. Draft selection criteria will also be sent to States for approval Induction/Training Training will be undertaken on-site Trainees shall receive toolboxes appropriate for their training Beneficiaries will be given access to the N-Power learning portal where they will be able to continue their learning process. Exit skills will also be available on the learning portal. Deployment: Jobs, Internships and Mentoring At the end of the training, the trainees will get local and international industry grade certification and internship opportunities while others will be linked to job and market opportunities. This will end with career fairs, entrepreneurial demos for projects, and global outsourcing linkages. Key Stakeholder Ministries and Agencies Federal Ministry of Works, Power and Housing, Education, Labour & Employment, Youth & Sports, Communications, Budget & National Planning, NOA NDE, SMEDAN, ITF, CSOs Social Investments, OVP

6 5.5 million primary school pupils in year 1 Program is aimed at increasing the enrolment and completion rates at the primary school level Program to feed primaries 1-3 while States are encouraged to feed primaries 4-6 Program is key on building a community value-added chain that will ensure agricultural production, job creation and nutritional/health improvement Jobs created via recruitment of food vendors will also serve to raise agricultural demand as the vendors will serve as off-takers to local farmers Description/Objective Home Grown School Feeding Program 5.5 million primary school pupils in year 1 Estimated cost of daily meal per child is 70 naira Average number of school days in a year is 200 Target

7 Recruitment & Registration of Vendors/CaterersA multi-sectoral team will be set up at the State level to drive the implementation of the program Team to carry out State wide analysis on current agricultural production and potentials. Analysis of Education with regards to current infrastructure as it supports school feeding activities, as well as information on the agricultural schemes, if any, that could be leveraged upon. Situational Analysis Community based method for recruitment, compulsory medical screening and appropriate kitting Number of vendors per LGA shall be subject to the number of schools and pupil to caterer ratio e.g. 1 caterer to a maximum of 150 pupils Parties to consider during recruitment are current school based caterers, representatives from community women groups, parents, community leaders and other key members within the community structure Once the caterers have been successfully recruited, they will be registered on the Federal portal. Each caterer must open a bank account with the Federal assigned banks. Payments will be made directly to the food vendors using the biometric information for verification. Recruitment & Registration of Vendors/Caterers

8 All pupils enrolled in primary schools will be biometrically identified through a collaboration with the NHIS. State groups involved in the biometric exercise include: SUBEB; Bureau of Statistics; Budget and Planning; NYSC Every pupil with biometric and benefiting from the program will be eligible to free medical health care via NHIS Pupils Biometrics Federal and State Ministries of Education, Health, Agriculture, Budget & National Planning, Finance, UBEC/SUBEB, Partnership for Child Development, NHIS, CSOs Key Stakeholder Ministries and Agencies

9 Program is aimed at providing targeted transfers to poor and vulnerable households, ultimately ensuring that the beneficiary households graduate from poverty – improve household consumption, ensure human capital development, provide livelihood support A National Social Registry to be built by the National Social Safety Net Coordinating Office – NASSCO which is responsible for coordinating and setting standards around all social safety net programs as well as for setting up the registry. A bottom-up approach via Community Based Targeting Method has been adopted to build the Social Register The Cash Transfer Program shall mine beneficiaries from the Social Register Cash Transfer Cycle expected to last for 3 years with livelihood support to ensure graduation, after which a verification exercise would be carried out to assess the effectiveness and impact of the strategies utilised. Description/Objective: Cash Transfer Program 1 million households to receive N 5, 000 monthly as conditional cash transfers in year 1 Additional 200, 000 households for livelihood support through the World Bank All States, 30% of LGAs using State poverty map Target

10 Educational: School enrolment, attendance and completion rates Co-responsibilities are the conditions attached to the disbursement of the cash transfers States are at liberty to choose particular co-responsibilities from a menu developed by the program to include: Education, Health and Nutrition, Environment, Productivity and Livelihood support Educational: School enrolment, attendance and completion rates Health: Immunization, Antenatal care, health education, sanitation, safe water, hygiene training Nutrition: training and workshops on balanced diet for mothers, infants and babies Environment: Planting of trees, clear culvert or drainages in community, soil preservation techniques, carbon credit, etc Co-responsibilities Financial Inclusion Training and mentoring Advisory support as a means of providing sustainable opportunities for productive households; targeted members to graduate out of poverty Livelihood Support

11 Program adopts a bank led model of payment that ensures that the monies go direct to the beneficiaries. Banks are liable for the entire transmission chain NIBSS is facilitating the banks to also take the biometrics of beneficiaries in order to identify them (by linking them with NIMC to generate a unique ID number) and to verify their beneficiary status before payment Banks are selected via a very tight and competitive procurement process In highly remote locations, local agency banking networks are being developed in order to enable real and on-time cash-out for beneficiaries and to promote local businesses that possess minimum liquidity requirement, of which the responsibility for collaboration remains that of the selected banks Key Beneficiary is the primary caregiver, but alternate beneficiaries shall also be captured Payment System & Beneficiary Verification A grievance redressal team to be established at community level – Male and Female Volunteers Other forms of redressal mechanisms will be used e.g toll free call numbers Grievance Redress

12 State Cash Transfer Unit (SCTU) to implement cash transfer and related activities. States are advised (in agreement with NCTO) to house SCTU (in terms of reporting and compliance monitoring) in the most relevant Ministry A State Operations Coordinating Unit (SOCU) will also be set up to populate the State Social Registry; coordinate, monitor and supervise CBT and data collection process. The State Register would also be uploaded onto the National Social Register. State Structure A Desk Office will be established to comprise a CBT Team and a Cash Transfer Facilitation Team The Cash Transfer Facilitation Team will be set up to provide coaching and mentoring support for the beneficiaries of cash transfer LGA Structure Ministry of Budget and National Planning, Education, Health, Water Resources, Environment, Works & Housing, Information and Culture, Labour & Productivity, Women Affairs, NIBSS, World Bank, AfDB, NDE, SMEDAN, NIMC, Galaxy Backbone, CBN, Gates Foundation, NOA, CSOs Key Stakeholder Ministries and Agencies

13 1.66 million beneficiaries in year 1 Program provides micro lending for those at the bottom of the financial pyramid It ensures access to financial services for small and medium scale enterprises The program targets four particular segments: Traders, market women and women cooperatives; Artisans and MSMEs; Enterprising clusters/youths; Farmers and Agricultural worker Description/Objective: Market Moni (GEEP) 1.66 million beneficiaries in year 1 Comprising: 1 million traders, women cooperatives and market women; 200,000 MSMEs; 260,000 enterprising youth; 200,000 farmers and agricultural workers All States are eligible, aggregating from all 774 LGAs Target

14 Loan value ranging from N10,000 to N100,000 5% administrative fee 3-6 month loan tenure Daily or weekly payments after a 2 week moratorium period Loan Details To be eligible for GEEP all associations must be registered either at the LG, State or CAC level A BVN is also required All eligible beneficiaries must be members of associations and cooperatives that fall under the four segments. However, loans shall not be disbursed to the associations but to individuals directly (endorsed by the group leadership) Eligible beneficiaries must also have an identifiable business location Beneficiaries are required to payback, otherwise bad loan performance is placed permanently on the persons BVN Eligibility

15 Unique Identification via BVN and Biometrics BOI will carry out a validation of the nominated groups. Validated associations will then be given a login to enter information on its members who should receive a GEEP loan. This list will be vetted by the State. Payment to beneficiaries will be done via four channels to ensure ease of access: aggregators; banks/MFIs, Paga, Telcos) Unique Identification via BVN and Biometrics Technology and digitalization for credit assessment, disbursement and payback Payment & Beneficiary Verification Federal Ministries of Agriculture, Trade & Investment, Budget & National Planning, NOA, BOI, SMEDAN, ITF, NDE, Gates Foundation, CBN, McKinsey, UNIDO, CSOs Key Stakeholder Ministries and Agencies

16 Social Investments, OVPEngaging CSOs Engaged CSOs are to produce quarterly reports (three months) for a one year period that convey the extent of compliance to the implementation strategies of each of the programs To be engaged, the selected CSO must meet the following requirements: Must be registered in Nigeria to conduct consultancy services; Must demonstrate the capacity to deploy the requisite number of highly skilled monitors to the field simultaneously; Must have experience working in the field of development and financial management and systems for minimum of five years (or a consortium that meets the criteria); Most have a minimum of five years experience in monitoring development projects. The assignment is to last for period of two years (8 cycles of 3 months each, subject to satisfactory performance). A transparent process of procurement will be adopted to select CSOs for engagement. The ToR for engaging CSOs for the various clusters is being developed and will be issued to all pre-qualified CSOs for response. Upon evaluation, those to be contracted will be selected and paid logistics to engage with the 3rd party portal, developed for the purpose. Social Investments, OVP