A total of 22,415 Taraba citizens, 2740 households and 32 markets are to benefit from the Nigeria COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (NG CARES) programme.
This was made known by the Taraba State governor, Darius Ishaku, during the Nigeria COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (NG CARES) programme for result which held in Jalingo, Saturday.
According to Ishaku, who was represented by the Commissioner of Budget and Economic Planning and Chairman, State CARES Steering Committee, Solomon Elisha, Taraba has met all the requirements to participate in the programme as well as intervention in three result areas and six disbursement link indicators.
“With this intervention, Taraba citizens numbering 22,415 are expected to benefit directly from the programme. This is aside the livelihood grants to 2,740 households targeting the economically active youth and women with the upgrading of 32 wet markets to safer functional ones.
“Taraba State became eligible to participate in the programme after the World Bank had reviewed and assessed her eligibility status, thus confirming that all the fiduciary and technical requirements for meeting all the conditions for participation have been put in place.
“The intervention in the State has four (4) components referred to as Delivery Platforms (DPs) namely: Community and Social Development Agency (CSDA), FADAMA, Special Grant Transfer (SGT) and Micro and Small Enterprise (MSE).
“I am aware that the implementation of NG-CARES will cost the nation the sum of $750 million and each State will be accessing the sum of $20 million through programme for result (PfR) to cushion the effect of the pandemic on her citizenry. I am also aware that the sum of N900 million has been advanced to the State for intervention in three result areas and six (6) disbursement link indicators,” Ishaku stated.
Speaking on the programme, National Coordinator, NG-CARES, Dr. Abdulkarim Obaje, said N-CARES has 4.5 million direct beneficiaries and that they are targeting 20 million direct and indirect beneficiaries after two years of implementation, drawn from the physically challenged, urban poor, the chronically ill and the aged.