Fact Sheet On Conditional Cash Transfer

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AS AT JUNE 2018, 297, 973 BENEFICIARIES IN 19 STATES INCLUDING BORNO IDPs HAVE RECEIVED PAYMENT FROM INCEPTION

**A total of 2,530 Cash Transfer Facilitators have been trained and 3,763 groups and cooperatives have been formed.

**Total amount paid to beneficiaries from inception to date (December 2016 to June 2018) 12,835,110,000.00.

**Total number of people captured in the National Social Register as at June 2018 is 503,552.

Objectives and Focus

The National Cash Transfer Program is designed to deliver timely and accessible cash transfers to beneficiary households and sets to support development objectives and priorities, to achieve the following outcomes:

• Improve household consumption.
• Increase in utilization of health and nutrition services.
• Improve school enrolment and attendance.
• Improve environmental sanitation and management.
• Encourage household financial and asset acquisition.
• Engage beneficiaries in sustainable livelihood.

• The programme provides targeted monthly Base Cash Transfer of N5,000 to poor and vulnerable households with the sole aim of graduating them out of absolute poverty.

• An additional 5,000 known as “Top Up” will be given to beneficiaries linked to their participation in selected activities focused on human capital development and sustainable environment through adherence to specified conditionalities determined by the States as priorities and supply side of the condition provided and functional. The conditionalities also known as co-responsibilities are Health, Education, Nutrition and Environment.
• A one-off livelihood grant will be given to selected productive household members to ensure they have sustainable livelihood that will facilitate their graduation out of poverty.
• To ensure that beneficiaries establish a sustainable means of livelihood before graduating out of the programme they are continuously supported, mentored and coached to form savings groups by trained Cash Transfer Facilitators in every ward who visit them weekly to provide capacity building on life skills and basic financial knowledge as well as nutrition, hygiene, livelihood and sanitation information.
• The program is currently implemented in 26 States + Borno IDPs and 297, 973 beneficiaries in 19 States + Borno IDPs have received payment from inception to date. A total of 2,530 Cash Transfer Facilitators have been trained and 3763 groups and cooperatives have been formed.
• The soft and hard co-responsibilities that must be fulfilled by the beneficiaries to receive the support – Soft co-responsibilities: are orientation and nutrition trainings. Beneficiaries must attend the Orientation Training as a pre-requisite to hard co-responsibilities, States that select nutrition will have to attend both orientation and nutrition training. Hard co-responsibilities involve compliance to the co-responsibilities along the four thematic area which are: education, health, nutrition and environment.
• Health: Beneficiaries (pregnant women and children 0 to 5years) are required to register in designated primary health centre / skilled birth attendants (SBAs) and maintained a prescribed schedule visit for pre/post-natal visits for the pregnant women and immunisation for children.
• Nutrition: Children 0-5years are required to be presented in a designated health centre for growth monitoring.
• Education: Children 5-15years or girls 10-18years must register in public primary schools and maintain an attendance of a minimum of 70% number of academic days.
• Environment: Beneficiaries (household members 18-40 years) are expected to plant and maintain woodlot or home garden, practice erosion control or maintain household sanitation depending on what the state selects.
• The following states are currently receiving payment: Adamawa, Anambra, Bauchi, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Ekiti, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kogi, Kwara, Nassarawa, Niger, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Taraba.
• The following states have joined the programme but are yet to state receiving payment: Abia, Bayelsa, Imo, Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara.
• From inception to date 297,973 households have received payment.
• Total number of people captured in the National Social Register as at June 2018 is 503,552.
• Total amount paid to beneficiaries from inception to date (December 2016 to June 2018) 12,835,110,000.00.
• The number of beneficiaries that have undergone awareness raising exercises to improve their wellbeing 297,973 beneficiaries have undergone awareness training.
• The number of beneficiaries that are engaged in capacity building activities to sustain their livelihood is 147,179 households.
• The expansion plan in the coming months are: step down training on orientation and implementation for Cash Transfer Facilitators of the following states to kick-start full implementation of the programme; Abia, Bayelsa, Imo, Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara.
• Other expansion plans include: enrolment and training of new beneficiaries and state engagement for selection of co-responsibilities.