To ensure social protection the Adolescent Health Information Project (AHIP) has trained more than eight thousand women on various skills across Northern Nigeria in the past 10 years.
The Senior Programmes Officer of the agency Malam Abba Bello Ahmad stated this during an exclusive interview with the Nigerian Tracker.
Malam Abba Bello said social protection is a concept that aims at reducing poverty and vulnerability of citizenry and in our own context it includes women and children and people with disabilities, so any programme or intervention for curbing their vulnerability simply means social protection.
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According to him giving them skills education and if the government in its own volition decided to provide programmes and what will enhance general public life which includes income generation and livelihood, this kind of policies and programme provide social protection and social security to the general public.
Malam Abba added that AHIP as an organization usually trains the vulnerable especially women.
‘ ‘What we usually do is that we have a centre called human development centre along Maiduguri Road where we provide women skills on vocational training where most of them acquire skills like knitting Tailoring and so on and so forth, about ten years from now, the number of women trained by the centre is 8 thousand.
Recent findings have shown that women constitute a large chunk of people ridden by poverty in the Northwestern part of the country, and if skills and programmes are formulated that will address the need of the people and the level of poverty will be drastically reduced, Said Malam Abba
