A Non-Governmental Organisation, NGO, Save the Children International has inaugurated Child Development Grant Programme Phase-2 in Kaduna State, to support the establishment of child-sensitive social protection policies and programmes.
The NGO’s National Programme Manager, Karina Enye during the inauguration ceremony in Kaduna, explained that the goal was to reduce malnutrition and hunger through the reduction of economic and social vulnerability.
Enye described social protection as public policies, programmes and systems that helped the poor and vulnerable individual and households to ensure social status of human rights.
She explained that the programme would focus on system strengthening, evidence generation, advocacy and capacity building, with particular emphasis on child-nutrition.
The Program Manager pointed out that about sixty four million people in Northern Nigeria were extremely poor, noting that poor households barely have enough food to last one quarter of the year.
