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| Dr. Sumaye Hamza |
Social Investment Programme in Plateau State has been rewarding and
impactful, says Focal Person.
By Udanta Ugante
January 17, 2020
A good
percentage of residents of Plateau State are either direct or indirect
beneficiaries of the Social Investment Programme (SIP) because members of their
families are benefiting from the intervention or transacting business with
those benefiting. This was the submission by the Executive Assistant to
Governor/ Focal Person of the scheme for Plateau State, Dr. Sumaye Hamza in Jos
on the occasion of a Day Capacity Development Training for staff of SIP office
held on Thursday.
According to the Focal Person, the four components of the
Social Investment Programmes are now HouseHold names and they include: The Job
Creation tagged NPower; Conditional Cash Transfer {CCT}; National Home Grown
School Feeding {NHGSF} and the Government Enterprise Empowerment Programme
{GEEP}. Hamza held that the fact that an encouraging number of people are
directly benefiting from the intervention helps to maintain peace and stability
through useful engagement and, improved economic wellbeing of people, increased
enrolment and enhanced livelihood among others.
Given a run-down
of the achievements of SIP programme in Plateau State, Dr. Hamza said over 11,000 youths are
benefiting from the NPower intervention. Continuing, she said “there are
61,565 Poorest of the poor Househods, within which we have 291,249
individuals are benefiting from the CCT intervention; 3,285 cooks are feeding 220,000 pupils in 1970
public primary schools in the state and thousands of small scale traders have
benefited from the Trader Moni and Market moni”.
She said all these became possible because of
the passion of Governor Simon Bako Lalong who provided the enabling environment
for effective implementation of the programmes under SIP adding that the
committed and versatile staff in the office under her coordination played their
part.
“With the
above successes recorded, it has become necessary to boost the morale of SIP
Staff to do more. Therefore, the capacity building workshop with the theme:
Enhancing productivity through capacity development is organized”, she said.
Hamza added that they were also aware that
sound health, focused mind, committed spirit, among others are drivers of
enhanced productivity stressing that they have set a pace as far as SIP was
concerned and also encouraged all and
sundry to
“Think Plateau and Act Plateau” so that others will emulate and learn
lessons from the people of the state. “Let’s be reminded that our temperament
has impact on our approach to service delivery. For example we must be ready to
bring up new ideas/innovations, think outside the box, be proactive, be
committed, endure and persevere, be optimistic, bring unity in the society,
balance our lives and ensure that we develop result oriented thinking in our
work. Our resource persons will engage us in most of these areas”.
She emphatically
stated that the NPower portal was yet to be opened and to equally reiterate
that the engagement was online and very transparent adding that it was not
through completion of forms. “SIP is technology driven to enable a balanced
selection where those who don’t know anybody can have equal opportunity to
participate. Our youths should be
careful disclosing their personal information indiscriminately. Once the portal
is opened we have an obligation to appropriately inform the good people of
Plateau State about the procedures of enrolment”, said Hamza.
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