Nigeria - Inclusive Basic Service Delivery and Livelihood Empowerment Integrated Programme (IBSDLEIP) – Additional Financing

The proposed operation involves an additional loan of UA 3.99 million to finance the activities of the Nigeria Inclusive Basic Service Delivery and Livelihood Empowerment Integrated Programme (IBSDLEIP). The programme seeks to curb fragility aggravated by the Boko Haram insurgency. This Program is part of ongoing Federal Government efforts toward North East States Emergency Transition, Recovery and Peacebuilding, elaborated by the five-year programmatic “Buhari Plan” of 2016. The Buhari Plan, is a Strategic and Peace Building programme to reverse the devastating conditions created by the seven-year destruction of the Boko Haram insurgency. This additional loan reinforces program components at the Federal Level and will contribute to addressing gaps in government’s financial commitment to operationalizing the Plan. This complement of financial resources is specific to bringing improvement to the school infrastructure and improve the quality of services in science and technical education. Indeed, it will finance the completion of educational and hostel buildings, provide a water and sanitation system, along with providing capacity building and a Business Development Centre (BDC) and other additional facilities at the Federal Science and Technical College (FSTC), in Lassa, Borno State. The additional activities to be funded will be undertaken within the original IBSDLEIP timeframe; and will provide a conducive learning and teaching environment to ensure the reinstatement of the pre-closure capacity of the FSTC, which at the time of closure had a total of 950 students and 80 technical subject tutors, and increase its capacity. This will assist the Government to improve access to quality Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) especially in North East Nigeria and contribute towards poverty reduction, and rebuilding of North East Nigeria.