President Muhammadu Buhari,
Tuesday, in New York said that “reducing extreme poverty and hunger is one of
the cardinal objectives” of his administration.
He said this while delivering the
keynote address at the Nigeria High-Level Side-Event on “SDG Integration –
Bridging the Policy Planning – Budgeting Gap for the Achievement of the
Sustainable Development Goals,” which held on the margins of the 74th Session
of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA74).
The President noted: “It is for
this reason that in May this year, we committed ourselves to lifting
approximately 100 million Nigerians out of poverty within a 10-year period. This
is a national development priority and in line with the aspirations of the
SDGs.
“We have since established an
ambitious National Social Investment Programme (NSIP) targeting the poor and
vulnerable members of the Nigerian population.”
According to him, “Through the
National Social Investment Programme (NSIP), we are tackling and addressing the
root causes of poverty in all its manifestations.
“For example, the Home Grown
School Feeding Programme (HGSF) component is feeding almost 10 Million school
pupils daily and empowering over 90, 000 local catering staff across the
country.”
On the need to overcome ad hoc
planning for the SDGs, President Buhari said among others:
“It was our genuine desire for
scientific planning and implementation of the SDGs that made Nigeria to
commence the process of domestication and customization of the Integrated
Sustainable Development Goals Model in 2017.
“The Nigeria iSDG Model, the
Report of which we will officially launch today, will serve as a framework for
robust, fact-based policy analysis, planning and implementation at all levels
of government.
“It is expected to be used as a
planning tool to complement existing ones currently in use at the national,
sectoral and sub-national levels.”
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