Overview
In Yobe state, Northeast Nigeria, the United Nations Development Project UNDP’s start up cash grant intervention is improving livelihoods of youths and women that have been affected by the Boko Haram Insurgency. The overall intervention is a response to the crisis in the Northeast of Nigeria which has tremendously escalated the poverty level in the region and disrupted means of livelihood, necessitating the startup grant activity by UNDP to reestablish the livelihood of skilled beneficiaries in Yobe state
With a view to cushion the escalating hardships occasioned by the Boko haram violence and make young men and women self-reliant and employers of labour, 199 out of 200 beneficiaries (44-female and 155 male) from Goniri and Ngirbuwa communities in Gujba LGA, who have been trained on various vocational skills such as plumbing and pipe fitting, carpentry and joinery, home economics, painting and decoration, tailoring/garment making, welding and fabrication, computer craft, electrical installation and maintenance, furniture making, bricks/block molding and motor vehicle mechanic have been provided with funding, a small grant of N150,000 with which they have undertaken and set up their various trades and business activities that is already making significant difference in their lives and communities.
Implemented by the Centre for Community Development and Research Network, (CCDRN), the intervention has facilitated the successful startup of businesses and trades with the potentialities of improving the livelihoods and general living standard of vulnerable members of affected communities including women and youth. The intervention which was strictly monitored by CCDRN is assisting targeted beneficiaries, mostly young men and women to get to the route of full recovery from the socio-economic nosedive that the insurgency, which is in its 10th year has wedged on the region and her people.
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CCDRN SUCCESS STORIES FOR UNDP INTERVENTION IN YOBE
