AGILE: World Bank Approves Conditional Cash Transfer For 12,970 Beneficiaries in Bauchi
By Abubakar Hardawa
The Bauchi State Office of the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment AGILE AF Project says the World Bank has approved the payment of 12,970 Conditional Cash Transfer CCT beneficiaries out of the over 18 thousand captured under the project’s first cohort.
The State Component Lead, Financial Incentive of the project, Hajiya Hadiza Abdulkadir stated this at a 1-day Sensitisation meeting on Financial Incentives for Traditional Leaders, parents and Caregivers, Education Secretaries and Students from Alkaleri, Bauchi, Kirfi and Toro local governments.
Hajiya Hadiza Abdulkadir said the remaining over five thousand beneficiaries who did not scale the World bank’s screening were due to either BVN, NIN or similar problems, noting that they would soon commence issuance of ATM cards to those who scaled through the screening process.
In a remark, the State Commissioner of Education Dr Lawal Mohammed who said Governor Bala Mohammed had already paid the 150 million naira counterpart, commended the AGILE technical team for its effort towards realising the set objectives especially in the enrolment of adolescent girls.
Earlier, the AGILE State Project Coordinator, Hajiya Ladi Hamma said the CCT component is a support system instituted under the project to ensure adolescence girls enrol, stay in school upto completion, and called on stakeholders to support the project to succeed.
Speaking on behalf of the AGILE National Office, the Guidance and Counselling Officer Life Skill Component, Mrs Grace Jackson who said the CCT component seeks to ensure that parents are presented with financial support package to send the girl child to school instead of hawking or farming, called for continued sensitisation and advocacy to achieve success.
In their various goodwill messages, the Deputy Chairman State Assembly Committee on Education Musa Wakili Nakwada and representatives of SUBEB, BASANE, BASAME and Education Secretaries from the four benefitting LGAs promised continued support towards the successful implementation of the component.
