Eleven thousand five hundred women who have benefitted from the United Nations multi-sectoral pandemic response would no longer enjoy similar cash support anymore as the man Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen announced the end of the programme on Monday.
Tallen said the programme that was shifted twice closed after it met with the “overall objective” it has set for it.
The minister said this in Abuja at a media parley joined by the United Nations Women Risk Communication and Community’s Engagement (RCCE).
Beneficiaries were paid N30,000 each during the year-long programme that cuts across 10 states as part of United Nations Support for the Covid 19 Multi-sectoral pandemic response intervention to poor women in rural communities.
Tallen said “Today, Monday, August 30, 2021, marks the close-out of the Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) Project which started in April 2020 and having been extended twice from the initial April 30, 2021, close-up date to June 2021 and now to August 30, 2021.
“This was to allow total coverage and to ensure the poor vulnerable women in the Ministry’s 10 targeted states of Akwa Ibom, Borno, Bauchi, Edo, Ebonyi, Delta, Lagos, Gombe, Sokoto and FCT reap maximum benefit from the project before its closing.
She said “In the signed MOU between these organisations, the Ministry alongside the team was charged to mobilize the most affected communities and raise awareness on the spread of COVID19, risk mitigation, capacity building and empowerment of vulnerable women in 10 states with a high prevalence of the pandemic.
“Gender-based violence (GBV) cases, HIV/AIDS, Women living with Disabilities, Widows, Elderly and others as at the time of project conceptualization and commencement in April 2020.”
Tallen noted with satisfaction that “it is my honour to announce to the world that the goal and objectives of the RCCE project through risk communication, social mobilization, and community engagement and the Overall Objectives have been achieved.
“The target was to support the National Multi-sectoral COVID19 pandemic response under the UN Basket Fund towards reaching 10,000 vulnerable women and girls worst affected by the knock-on effects of the crisis in 60 communities, 20 LGAs in 10 priority states.”
She noted that the goal has “been fully met with and surpassed with additional 1,500 households reached, making a total of 11,500 (Eleven thousand, five hundred households) with cash palliatives to improved their livelihoods.”
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