Households received a monthly Basic Income Guarantee(BIG) for one year and then a lump sum Poverty Reduction Accelerator Investment(PRAI). The BIG ranged from$10 to$33 depending on the number of children in the household; a further$50 per month was withheld as compulsory savings, which was provided as the PRAI(up to$560) to the head of the household. Entrepreneurship and life skills training were provided to beneficiaries to increase the impact of the PRAI. The payments were subject to two conditions: the enrolment and retention(80%) of children in basic education(Primary 1 to junior secondary education) and participation in all free health care programmes. Coverage of the programme was limited, reaching only about 22,000 households. This results in coverage of less than 0.001% of the poor(FES, 2016). Table 1:Coverage of Social Protection Programmes in Nigeria Programme COPE CCT Girls Education CCT Girls Education CHBIS Projected Coverage (No of HH/% of Poor) Unavailable Kano- Scaling up to all eligible girls in LGAs where CCT was implemented Katsina 100% Informal Sector workers(Expected to cover 112m Nigerians in the informal sector) Actual Coverage(No of HH/% of Poor) 22,000 HH/<0.001% of poor HH 12,000 girls/0.002% of poor HH in Kano(9.2million population) Poverty incidence: 60% 7,000 girls/0.001% of poor people in Katsina(6m population) Poverty Incidence: 70% Unavailable Source: Holmes and Akinrimisi(2012) 25