The Jigawa State authorities says it spent N192.ninety six billion to put in force its Maternal and Child Cash Transfer (MCCT) programme among November 2021 and June 2022.
Ibrahim Rabakaya, government secretary, Jigawa State Rehabilitation Board, disclosed this throughout a three-day validation of Kaduna country’s Graduation Youth-Focused Social Protection programme on Wednesday in Kano.
Mr Rabakaya stated the programme became delivered in 2021 primarily based totally at the successes of the coins switch programme that become carried out withinside the nation through a Non-Governmental Organisation, Action Against Hunger (AAH).
He defined that the MCCT, which turned into carried out beneathneath the Child Development Grant programme, furnished the wanted proof approximately the effectiveness of coins switch in addressing poverty and vulnerability.
Mr Rabakaya stated the intervention focused 5,740 beneficiaries – pregnant girls and lactating mothers, for conditional coins switch throughout the 287 political wards withinside the kingdom.
He delivered that 20 beneficiaries have been decided on from every of the 287 political wards to deal with stunting amongst kids beneathneath five.
According to Mr Rabakaya, each 5,740 beneficiaries acquired 32,000, N4,000 month-to-month from November 2021 to June 2022, amounting to N183.sixty eight billion.
He brought that N4 million became expended as more charges, N688.eight million on financial institution charges, and N4.fifty nine million on automatic teller machines cards.
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