[{"bbox": [93, 153, 254, 177], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Lessons Learnt:**"}, {"bbox": [93, 197, 1162, 251], "category": "Text", "text": "Lessons learnt from previous and current social protection/safety nets programmes supported by the European Union in the country will be taken into consideration."}, {"bbox": [93, 262, 1163, 397], "category": "Text", "text": "The increase in crime across the country could be attributed to the high level of unemployment, including among graduates and secondary school leavers. Some of the unemployed youth were barred from work by lack of job opportunities or, sometimes, by lack of skills and finance to start their small businesses. This action will target the youth for its cash transfer activities as well as women and girls. Investing in women and girls has been shown to have trickle effect not only on the beneficiaries but other dependants."}, {"bbox": [93, 407, 1163, 516], "category": "Text", "text": "Another key lesson learnt is the need to harmonize the existing and related databases with the social register to make it shock responsive and able to respond during emergencies. This became evident during the Covid-19 pandemic when the government found it difficult to reach out to poor and vulnerable households. Having accurate data and real-time tools make it easier to activate emergency response."}, {"bbox": [93, 525, 1163, 687], "category": "Text", "text": "The challenge of designing programmes that are difficult to scale up and sustained has been another lesson learnt. To address this, the programme will be designed in conjunction with the relevant authorities in line with policy strategy of the federal and state government. This is necessary in order to ensure sustainability and ownership of the programmes at the expiration of the projects while ensuring that government continues with the gains of the programme by making budgetary allocation in the sector plans. This will also entail building strong collaborations and synergy with the relevant actors and stakeholders at the federal and state level during the phase of the programming."}, {"bbox": [86, 713, 399, 743], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.5 The Intervention Logic"}, {"bbox": [97, 760, 606, 787], "category": "Text", "text": "The underlying intervention logic for this action is that;"}, {"bbox": [97, 798, 1160, 929], "category": "Text", "text": "> If the social register is expanded to better integrate poor and vulnerable households in the country; **And** the social register is digitalized and captures all the necessary variables across the sectors; **And** the variables used fully take into account the poverty dynamics across the regions of the country; **And** safety nets programmes are designed based on the needs of the targeted beneficiaries mined from the social register, **Then** poverty will be sustainably reduced in the selected areas."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1680, 1143, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 11 of 22"}]