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Accepted Paper:
Victor Ogharanduku (Save the Children International (SCI)) George Akor Yimave Gyanggyang (Save the Children International) Stella Esedunme (Action Against Hunger) Abiodun Abaniwo (Action Against Hunger)
Paper short abstract:
Foreign assistance in institutionalising and expanding social protection and intended and unintended consequences. This paper looks at the factors responsible for these consequences and the impacts they have had on social protection's role in poverty and vulnerability reduction in Nigeria.
Paper long abstract:
The role of foreign aid in supporting the adoption and institutionalization of social protection in low- and middle-income countries is a topic of intense debates. The debates have centred around whether foreign aid has been effective in assisting countries in achieving their development goals, some argue that foreign aid has unintended consequences that have been largely ignored while others have voiced that these countries have become too dependent on aid that they are unwilling to undertake the development and expansion of social protection on their own. In Nigeria, for over a decade, the United Kingdom (UK) Foreign Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) through the Child Development Grant Programme (CDGP) now Expanding Social Protection for Inclusive Development ESPID) has been assisting Nigeria in the adoption and institutionalisation of social protection, particularly social assistance since 2013. This assistance has rested on: policy, legislation, advocacy and engagement; capacity building and systems strengthening; and evidence generation and knowledge management and the expected impact is for Nigerian citizens, especially children and their caregivers, to experience reduction in multi-dimensional poverty. This paper is a research study aimed at better understanding the impacts that the FCDO support has had on the adoption, institutionalisation and expansion of social protection in Nigeria. Specifically, the intended and unintended consequences, the factors responsible for these intended and unintended consequences and how such assistance can be improved upon. Findings from the study is expected to assist international development partners in reforming the way they provide assistance, especially in the field of social protection.
State provisioning in crisis? Social policy financing and distributional outcomes in the Global South
Session 2 Thursday 27 June, 2024, -