Poverty Reduction and Resilience Development in an Insurgency Battered Region – Lessons from the Activities of Lake Chad Basin Commission in Nigeria
- August 20, 2019
- Posted by: RSIS
- Category: Agriculture
International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume VI, Issue VIII, August 2019 | ISSN 2321–2705
Isma’ila Abdullahi Hadejia
Sule Lamido University, Kafin Hausa, Jigawa State, Nigeria
Abstract: – Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) is a regional organization concerned with the management of Lake Chad basin and its ecosystem. LCBC is financing the implementation of an emergency youth employment scheme which entails various projects in the respective countries. The objectives of the scheme are to provide emergency youth employment scheme for poverty reduction, also to lessen the effects of insurgency as well as divert the attention of the youth from joining terrorists’ groups. It is equally intended to encourage replication of the project by federal, states and local governments and individuals. It is within that framework that, in Nigeria LCBC programmed community Afforestation in Jigawa and Yobe States under which 2629 ha were planted in 14- LGAs 2013; aquiculture under which 16 community fish ponds were constructed in 16 communities from 16 LGAs in 2016 and the development of 75 hectares of community drip irrigation in 13 locations in 13LGAs 2017, which empowered 300 beneficiaries. Both projects were implemented in parts of Bauchi, Kano, Jigawa and Yobe States o n the Nigerian side of the lake Chad Basin.
I. INTRODUCTION
The Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) was established on 22nd of May 1964 by the four countries that border Lake Chad: Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria and Chad. The Republic of Central Africa joined the organization in 1996, Libya was admitted in 2008. Observer status is held by Sudan, Egypt, the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo. N’Djaména, Capital of Chad hosts the Headquarters of the Commission. LCBC is financing the implementation of an emergency youth employment scheme which entails various projects in the respective countries such projects in Nigeria are community Afforestation, construction of community fish ponds, and drip irrigation project.
The objectives of the scheme are to provide emergency youth employment scheme for poverty reduction, also to lessen the effects of insurgency as well as divert the attention of the youth from joining terrorists’ groups. It is equally intended to encourage replication of the project by federal, states and local governments and individuals.
