This document summarizes the Community Services, Women and Youths Employment (CSWYE) Project of SURE-P in Nigeria. The project aims to generate quick employment by targeting unemployed women, youth, and vulnerable people through community-based work. Key results include engaging over 116,000 beneficiaries across 35 states in 5,761 services. What has worked well includes a community needs-based targeting mechanism, paying individuals directly into bank accounts via an electronic payment system, maintaining computerized records, and coordinating implementation between multiple government agencies. The project aims to continuously learn and improve through monitoring evaluations, stakeholder feedback, and learning from other similar projects.

1. WHAT HAS WORKED IN YOUTH
EMPLOYMENT IN NIGERIA: CSWYE
PROJECT OF SURE-P AS A CASE
STUDY
PRESENTED BY
DR. M. E. NWORDU,
PROJECT DIRECTOR, CSWYE PROJECT OF SURE-
P,
FEDERAL MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND
PRODUCTIVITY

2. COMMUNITY SERVICES, WOMEN AND
YOUTHS EMPLOYMENT (CSWYE) PROJECT
OF SURE-P
1.0 Introduction
 A quick-win employment generation
intervention by the federal government.
 Initiated to cushion the impact of partial
removal of subsidy, from petroleum and
related products, on the masses.
 Targets unskilled and unemployed women
(18 to 50 years old); youths and other
vulnerable persons (18 to 35 years old);
 Annual target of 185,000 beneficiaries.
 Community-based
 Demand driven
 Home grown

3. 2.0 Guiding Principles
 Pro-poor : Majority found in rural communities
 Sensitive to socio-cultural environment
 Beneficiary value reorientation prior to deployment
 Participatory: Community ownership encouraged
 Equity in spread: Across States, LGAs, communities, gender
(30%) and vulnerability (20%),
 Environment Friendly: 90% service types are pro-environment
 Integrated identification, Communication and payment system
 Transparency and probity: Proper documentation and
Information sharing through appropriate media,
 Seamless Payment system: No cash payment (e-transfer)
 Result-oriented : Time-sheet based, No work no pay
 Phased roll – out: Pilot and Ramp-up phases
 Coordinated institutional structure: Federal, State, LGAs, and Wards
 Regular M&E: State, Federal, independent bodies
 Regular reporting and record keeping
 Integrated beneficiary exit strategy

4. 3.0 Key RESULTS
 35 states and the FCT are benefitting (97%)
Bayelsa state about to deploy,
 106 out of 111 Senatorial districts are
participating (95.5%),
 764 out of 774 LGAs are participating
(98.7%)
 8174 out of 9322 Wards are participating
(87.7%),
 10,707 communities are benefitting,
 5,761 services being delivered,
 116,170 beneficiaries (62.8%) (74,145
males, and
42,025 females) with 5,432 disabled

5. 4.0 WHAT HAS WORKED
PARAMETER STRATEGY
Targeting mechanism
(services and
beneficiaries)
Community needs based and community led,
Closeness to project location;
Inclusiveness State, Senatorial districts, LGAs, Wards, and
Communities; 30% female (18-50 years) and 20%
vulnerable group; 18 – 35 years
Stipend Determinant Time-sheet based
Stipend Payment Process Individual bank accounts and electronic payment
system, integrated identification, communication and
payment system. Decentralized banking system.
Record keeping system Computerized, bottom-top channel
Performance
measurement
M & E Tools, independent system, decentralized
web based information management system
Institutional Coordination Establishment of IMCC (MDAs), FPIU, SCIC
SPIU and LGA and Ward Coordinators. Defined roles
and responsibilities
Beneficiary Exit Integrated into other SURE-P Activities e.g
Vocational Skills, Railways, FERMA, etc.

6. 5. CONCLUSION:
Continuous Learning Process
 Project systems are dynamic.
 Useful input from beneficiaries and
stakeholders.
 Findings from M&E exercises.
 Exchange of ideas with operators of
similar and successful projects (national
and international).
 Changes in overall socio-economic
environment.
 Changes in demand systems.

7. THANK YOU.