Social Protection System Building: Lessons from Nigeria and Somaliland

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This webinar will showcase Save the Children’s work in social protection system building in Nigeria and Somaliland. It will also open a space for the discussion of the lessons learned and challenges involved in this type of technical and advocacy work.

More about Nigeria: The Expanding Social Protection for Inclusive Development (ESPID) project was a three-year (2021-2024) programme funded by the UK Government through the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) that aimed to contribute to the reduction of multi-dimensional poverty among Nigerian citizens, especially children and their caregivers.  ESPID was a successor to the Child Development Grant Programme (CDGP) that was implemented in Zamfara and Jigawa States as a pilot cash transfer programme aimed at reducing widespread poverty, hunger and malnutrition. ESPID achieved several important social protection system building goals at the federal and state levels in Kaduna, Kano, Jigawa and Zamfara. This included, at the federal level: the review of the National Social Protection Policy and influencing its approval by the federal government in 2021; and the development and review of several strategies, plans, frameworks and guidelines for the National Social Safety Nets Programme (NASSP). At the state level, ESPID supported the enactment of social protection laws in Zamfara, Jigawa, and Kaduna states, and the establishment of social protection agencies and councils. Finally, ESPID also supported civil society to influence the design, monitoring and accountability of social protection, including the formation and capacity building of social protection platforms, the facilitation of community accountability and grievance redress mechanisms, and awareness campaigns and advocacy initiatives.

More about Somaliland: Save the Children’s child-sensitive social protection pilot intervention and continuous engagement (in the form of capacity building, sensitization, technical support) with the Ministry of Employment, Social Affair and Family (MESAF) and Ministry of Finance, Government of Somaliland has resulted in “Social Protection” being incorporated as a stand-alone sector in its National Development Plan III. Earlier in 2024, the government of Somaliland also launched its first Social Protection Policy and Save the Children has played a key role in this policy development process.

 

Speakers

Dolika Nkhoma, ESPID Programme Manager, (Formerly) Save the Children International-Nigeria

Mukesh Lath, Senior Social Protection Advisor, Save the Children Finland

Dahir Isaq, CSSP Technical Specialist and CVA Focal point, SCI, Somalia CO

Moderator: Julie Lawson-McDowall, Senior Social Protection Advisor, Save the Children UK

 

Resources 

Project Website | Evaluation of the Child Development Grant Programme (CDGP)

Video | ESPID Project in Jigawa State

Video | ESPID Project in Kaduna State