The document presents a workshop on harnessing the demographic dividend in Borno State, emphasizing the potential economic growth from a favorable population age structure. It outlines key pillars such as health, education, employment, governance, and evidence building, along with short and long-term recommendations for each area. The conclusion highlights the necessity of engaging youth, women, and persons with disabilities for sustainable economic growth.

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PRESENTATION ON HARNESSING
DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND IN
BORNO STATE (GROUP 5)
Workshop organized by the National Population
Commission (NPC) and Funded by Lafia
Program
Wednesday, 22nd
January, 2025
Maiduguri, Borno State
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PRESENTERS
 Muhammad Modu Bulama (NPC rep.)
 Hassana Mohammed Bunu (JOPDW)
 Abatcha Babagana (Min. of Women Affairs)
 Idris Bello (NPC rep.)
 Zara Umar (NPC rep.)
 Mohammed Abubakar (JOPDW)
 Alhaji Mala Gumsuri (Min. of Health)
 Yagana M. Guza (Hosp. Mgt Board)
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OUTLINE
 Introduction
 Pillars
 Recommendations
 Supplements
 Conclusion
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INTRODUCTION
 Demographic dividend according to the United Nations Population Fund, is “the
economic growth potential that can result from shifts in a population’s age
structure, mainly when the share of the working-age population is larger than the
non-working-age share of the population”.
 Demographic gift or bonus
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…INTRODUCTION
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PILLARS
 1. Heath and Well-being
 2. Education and Skills development
 3. Employment and Entrepreneurship
 4. Governance andYouth Participation
 5. Practical Evidence Building
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RECOMMENDATIONS (HEALTH AND WELL-BEING)
 SHORT-TERM ACTIONS
 1. Improve maternal and child healthcare by creating awareness on ANC,
immunization… etc
 2. Equip PHC to full capacity for efficient service delivery e.g staff, drugs, devices
 3. Address the needs of people with special needs
 4. Free medical services to meet the demands as recommended by WHO
 5. Advocacy and action against malnutrition (Nigeria has 2nd
burden globally;
45%of malnutrition, UNICEF)
 LONG-TERM ACTIONS
 1. Family Planning and child spacing campaign & efficiency
 2. Enrollment of people from each local community in health related courses
 3. Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) including ambulance services
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RECOMMENDATIONS (EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT)
 1. Ensuring free qualitative education for all
 2. Provision of special learning facilities should be provided for persons with special
needs in the educational system
 3. Proper feeding with incentives for all school children
 4. Recruitment of enough teaching and non-teaching staff
 5. Articulation of skills acquisition into the educational curriculum
 6. Advocate for better girl child education
 7. Revise any outdated part of the educational curriculum
 8. More awareness
 UBEC: 73,442 of the 170, 330 JSS school-aged children are out of school
 UBEC: 379, 123 of the 1,114,997 Primary school-aged children are out of school
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RECOMMENDATIONS (EMPLOYMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP)
 1. Meritorious employment and punishment for defaulters
 2. Reviving of industries
 3. Establishment of more industries to cater for the high demand
 4. Policy to ensure patronization of locally made goods (Nata,Tamsu Shoes… etc)
 5. Identify entrepreneurs and give soft loans
 6. Encourage better entrepreneurship opportunities for women as the backbone of
the society
 7. More awareness especially among youths
 Unemployment rate in Nigeria is 5.8% in 2023 (world bank)
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RECOMMENDATIONS (GOVERNANCE AND
YOUTH PARTICIPATION)
 1. Enactment of standing laws against poor governance
 2. Involving youth in decision-making processes across the state
 3. Appointing youths into key strategic positions at both state and LG levels
 4. Breaking the myth which is against youth participation in politics
 5. Boosting the morale of the youth on self-actualization
 6. Government should learn from history
 Youth age: 12-24 (World bank), 15-24 (UN), 15-35 (African Youth Charter), 15-35
(NationalYouth Policy)
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RECOMMENDATIONS (PRACTICAL EVIDENCE
BUILDING)
 Practical evidence building is the process of using the best available data and
analysis (based on scientific evidence) to take informed decisions
 1. Assist the FG in taking a good census
 2. Enlighten the public on the importance of getting counted in the census process
 3. Present budgets that reflect the total population
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MOST POPULOUS NATIONS (UN, 2023)
 1. India
 2. China
 3. USA
 4. Indonesia
 5. Pakistan
 6. Nigeria
 7. Brazil
 8. Bangladesh
 9. Russia
 10. Mexico
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PERIOD OF DD IN LARGE ECONOMIES
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DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND IN AFRICA
 No African country has yet achieved a demographic dividend
 Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, & Burundi have developed roadmaps
 Nigeria and Tanzania have policies to capture demographic dividend
 Ideal fertility rate is 2.1/ woman according to the Org. for Eco. Co-operation & Dev.
 National Population Policy
 1st
adopted in 2004 and revised in 2022
 It addresses relationship btw population growth and development
 It has goals for fertility, marriage age, pregnancy intervals, health education and resource
management
 1st
age at marriage for females should be at least 18 but less than 35years
 No. of children/woman should be 4
 Men>60 years should be discouraged to bear children
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DD GRAPH
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CONCLUSION
 In Conclusion, demographic dividend is necessary for the development of every
community, therefore, youths, women, the persons with disability and all others
must be brought to add value to the society for efficient sustainable economic
growth
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THANK YOU FOR LISTENING
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