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Nearly 50 per cent of Ghanaians have lost their household’s main source of income to the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease which broke out in the country in March last year, a new survey has established.
According to the survey, the COVID-19 impact was acutely felt more Ghanaians reported a decline in household income since the start of the pandemic, and an alarming percentage also lost their household’s main income sources, which in most cases were derived from the labour market.
The survey
The survey was conducted by researchers from the United Nations University World Institute of Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) and the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana, Legon.
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Using Big Data and machine learning to locate the poor in Nigeria According to the 2018/19 Nigeria Living Standards Survey (NLSS), just 1.6% of Nigerians lived in a household that was enrolled in the National Social Safety Net Project (NASSP), the country’s flagship social protection program. As is the case in other countries, those Nigerians newly impoverished by the COVID-19 crisis are likely to be different from the existing poor: they are more urban, more likely to live in southern Nigeria, and more dependent on service sector incomes. This evolving profile of the poor is reflected in current efforts to expand social protection in Nigeria, including the Rapid Response Register for the COVID-19 Cash Transfer Project, which is being guided by the mapping exercise described below.
The Vice President,
Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, said this on Tuesday in Abuja while inaugurating the COVID-19 Rapid Response Registration (RRR) Cash Transfer Project. According to him, the project is a national initiative to build a shock responsive framework for capturing and registering the urban poor and vulnerable populations across Nigeria. Osinbajo said that the new register complements the already existing platforms under the World Bank supported National Social Safety nets Project (NASSP). As of December 31, 2020, we have identified and registered about 24.3 million poor and vulnerable individuals into the National Social Register; equivalent to about 5.7 million households. Through this project, we are currently injecting about N10 billion directly into the hands of about two million poor and vulnerable households every month.
1m Nigerians to benefit from COVID-19 Cash Transfer Osinbajo
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No fewer than One million Nigerians are to benefit from the Federal Government’s COVID-19 Cash Transfer Project which aims to lift the urban poor affected by the pandemic out of poverty.
The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, said this on Tuesday in Abuja while inaugurating the COVID-19 Rapid Response Registration (RRR) Cash Transfer Project.
According to him, the project is a national initiative to build a shock responsive framework for capturing and registering the urban poor and vulnerable populations across Nigeria.
Osinbajo said that the new register complements the already existing platforms under the World Bank supported National Social Safety nets Project (NASSP).