Bauchi State FGN/AfDB Inclusive Basic Service Delivery Programme
Our Strategic Components
The Pillars of IBSDLEIP
Three Mutually Reinforcing Components
The programme implementation is anchored on three major reinforcing components, with the exact scope for each component as described below.
Service Delivery
The programme implementation is anchored on three major reinforcing components, with the exact scope for each component officially described below.
Basic Education Recovery
This intervention involves gender sensitive infrastructural and gender informed capacity development to promote recovery of quality basic education, through:
- Provision of 6 model primary schools, including furnished teachers' accommodation and classrooms, libraries, recreational materials, equipped laboratories, all round solar power, perimeter fencing for enhanced security, school uniforms and teaching and learning materials.
- Provision of school uniforms and teaching and learning materials for schools in 100 identified schools with low girls' enrollment to support the affirmative action for girls' education initiative.
- Training of Head Teachers, School teachers and quality assurance officers.
- Retraining of unqualified teachers for qualification upgrade, with 60% being female teachers; to promote female role models for girls in communities.
- Tailored training for SBMCs and PTAs from 250 selected Primary and JSS on roles, responsibilities and school development planning.
Primary Health Care Service Recovery
This intervention will focus on strengthening of PHCs, through:
- Provision of 6 model Centers, including furnished Doctors and Nurses accommodation, furnished patients and maternity wards, equipped laboratories, solar powered refrigerators and cold chain equipment and all-round solar power and perimeter fencing for enhanced security.
- Strengthening of referral and outreach services to remote communities.
- Training support to PHCs in identified training institutions to scale-up the production of critical mass of multipurpose and lower level PHC workers.
- Training of health workers on integrated health service delivery to improve diagnosis and management of diseases.
- Specific on the job training for pharmacy staff.
- Community Nutrition Support, including Outpatient Therapeutic Program (OTP) for severe acute malnutrition and peer mothers support groups.
- Create mechanisms for dialogue with communities and service providers, including service delivery satisfaction surveys.
Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Service Recovery and Development
This intervention involves the provision/restoration of infrastructure as well supporting the establishment and strengthening of institutional and organizational arrangements for sustainable management of WASH systems, incorporating environmental, climate change and green growth principles, through:
- Provision/Restoration of water supply facilities in communities, including components for cattle watering, small scale agriculture, reforestation, and rural electrification.
- Provision of gender and physically challenged sensitive water facilities in schools and PHCs, integrating school gardening and establishment of young farmers clubs.
- Provision of gender and physically challenged sensitive sanitation facilities in schools, PHCs and public places.
- Support the strengthening of RUWASSA and the establishment of WASH Departments, VLOM and Supply Chains at the LGA and community levels.
- Support the formation/training of WASHCOMS and Artisans at the community level.
- Support the establishment of PPPs for water supply and sanitation facilities provision.
- Support CLTS implementation for the attainment of 5,000 Additional Open Defecation Free (ODF) Communities.
- Support the promotion of hygiene, including Menstrual Hygiene Management, in schools, PHCs and communities.
- Support the promotion of Sanitation Marketing for construction of improved and gender sensitive toilets in communities.
Economic Recovery
This component has MSMEs and Entrepreneurship Promotion, Youth Empowerment, Empowerment of Women Micro-Enterprises in Agri-Business and Livelihood for Vulnerable Groups as subcomponents.
Youth, SME Skill and Entrepreneurship Development for Job Creation
This intervention involves skills enhancement and acquisition for youth employability and entrepreneurship development, targeting 500 artisans & mechanics and 407 unskilled youths, through:
- Provision/Restoration of TVET Centers and Industrial Parks, including equipment for practical training.
- Training of unskilled youth in specific trades, such as plumbing, woodwork, GSM repair etc.
- Tailored training for economic opportunities in value chain, such as livestock and crop commodity marketing, with emphasis on opportunities for greater women participation.
Empowerment of Women owned micro-enterprises in Agri-businesses
This intervention is to assist women entrepreneurs operating in women cooperatives to resuscitate and expand their businesses for growth in income and job creation, through:
- Provision of equipment on loan to support businesses such as peanut processing, oil extraction, soybean/sesame seed processing, rice milling and packaging, fishing and fish processing, animal fattening and diary products marketing.
- Training in business management, product quality improvement, product diversification, mentoring services, access to finance and markets.
Livelihood Improvement for Vulnerable Groups
This intervention is to support IDPs and vulnerable families to improve their livelihoods for socioeconomic re-integration, through:
- Provision of agricultural packages (farming inputs and equipment) such as fertilizers, improved seeds, chemicals, knapsack sprayers, hoes, and water pumps for farmers cooperatives.
- Provision of dairy cattle to vulnerable families (demand driven - one cow per family concept).
- Empowerment of women through small scale poultry and small ruminant production.
- Provision of fishing gears and accessories to fishermen returning from IDP camps, as well as homestead fish farming.
- Training and support on backyard vegetable gardening.
Institutional Strengthening and Project Management
This component is mainly targeted at implementation of the project and building the capacity of the Programme Implementation Unit (PIU) team and stakeholder MDAs, involving:
- Programme coordination, operation and management (including Project Management TA support).
- Capacity building for implementing staff and other relevant stakeholders to enhance operational and implementation efficiency.
- Project Monitoring and Reporting, and development of implementation manuals and M&E Frameworks.
- Procurement and Financial Audits.
- Impact evaluation and baseline/post-evaluation surveys.