[{"bbox": [97, 153, 1133, 206], "category": "Text", "text": "the national social register. Translating policy to action through practical implementation of social safety measures then largely misses its targets."}, {"bbox": [97, 218, 1133, 404], "category": "Text", "text": "As political awareness of poverty and insecurity challenges increase, social protection and safety nets have become an important area of intervention for the government and for the EU to support, through the design of sustainable social protection programmes and the consolidation of a robust social protection system at the national and state level. This involves working with the relevant ministry and agencies in strengthening the system, expanding its data capabilities, ensuring the interoperability of data, capacity building, management and strengthening of the national social registers and generating knowledge and rigorous evidence to guide ongoing and future investments in social protection programmes."}, {"bbox": [97, 416, 1133, 469], "category": "Text", "text": "The social safety net component of the programme is intended as a demonstration of what Social Protection can be, measuring the effectiveness of activities that contribute to the durable eradication of poverty."}, {"bbox": [85, 497, 340, 527], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 2.2 Problem Analysis"}, {"bbox": [97, 543, 823, 570], "category": "Text", "text": "The social protection system in Nigeria suffers from the following weaknesses:"}, {"bbox": [97, 581, 1133, 741], "category": "Text", "text": "**Data fragmentation:** The social registers in Nigeria remain fragmented, as they are kept and managed by various ministries agencies and development partners. This fragmentation of social registers makes it difficult to ascertain the number of households supported either by the government or development partners. A centralized database, disaggregated at least by sex, age and zones (urban/rural) will help determine the actual number of households reached, the type of intervention received and the needs/rights and gaps yet to be addressed. In general, this could inform planning and critical policy decisions as well as evidence-based advocacy and sensitisation."}, {"bbox": [97, 752, 1133, 913], "category": "Text", "text": "**Inadequate coverage:** As of March 2022, there were 11,596,248 households comprising 47,741,200 individuals captured in the national registers in 752 out of the 774 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Nigeria. However, it is estimated that millions of households in the 752 LGAs have not yet been captured, alongside the Poor and Vulnerable Households (PVHHs) in 22 LGAs. The challenges induced by inadequate coverage were evidently seen during the Covid-19 pandemic when the government did not have an adequate database for the poor and vulnerable which resulted in chaotic service delivery."}, {"bbox": [97, 925, 1133, 1032], "category": "Text", "text": "**Inadequate awareness and sensitization:** Another important issue that social protection programmes face is low demand or take up from target populations, especially when the programme or a modality is new. With smartphones and social media penetration rates rapidly growing among urban poor in Nigeria, social media campaigns offer an opportunity for delivering social protection programmes."}, {"bbox": [97, 1043, 1133, 1174], "category": "Text", "text": "**Poor Integration and digitalization:** The integration and digitalization of the social register is still largely rudimentary. This programme will be supporting the government at the federal and selected state levels in the mapping and expansion of data in the national social register that will enable both the government and partners working within the locality to access information and allow an efficient and effective programme delivery to the intended beneficiaries."}, {"bbox": [97, 1188, 1133, 1322], "category": "Text", "text": "**People-centred intervention:** Social protection programmes do not always take into consideration the needs and rights of the target beneficiaries thereby leading to little impact and lack of ownership and sustainability. To ensure that programmes are designed based on the needs of the target audience, the programme will factor in the emerging information from broad consultations with the potential beneficiaries and relevant stakeholders. Additionally, impact evaluation activities will provide rigorous evidence of direct impacts on target beneficiaries."}, {"bbox": [97, 1333, 1133, 1438], "category": "Text", "text": "**Inadequate capacity:** One of the challenges found over time in the management of the social register is the low capacity of the government to address capacity building of staff in order to ensure effective management and coordination of the social register. Thus, the action will support capacity building of government officials at state and LGA levels."}, {"bbox": [97, 1451, 1133, 1558], "category": "Text", "text": "**Policy formulation and legislative frameworks:** There still exist gaps in policy and legislative framework for social protection implementation in Nigeria. Efforts will be made to support the ongoing social protection harmonisation bill in Nigeria at the National Assembly while supporting the process at state level, while supporting states to develop their own social protection policy."}, {"bbox": [97, 1572, 1073, 1626], "category": "Text", "text": "Identification of main stakeholders and corresponding institutional and/or organisational issues (mandates, potential roles, and capacities) to be covered by the action:"}, {"bbox": [1038, 1681, 1143, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 5 of 22"}]