iv. The Home-grown School Feeding(HSF): This is the government’s scheme in which pupils in the primary school will get one meal per day. This targets about 5.5 million pupils. v. The Free Education Scheme for Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths(STEM): This scheme entails paying tuition for about 100,000 STEM students in tertiary institutions. The government is allocating about N5 billion to this scheme in this year’s budget. vi. The Micro Credit Scheme(MCS): This is being packaged for about one million artisans and market men and women and the government intends spending about N60 billion as loan to them. Loan facility will range between ten to one hundred thousand naira. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS AND SOCIAL PROTECTION The National Policy on Social Protection(NPSP) draws inspiration from aforementioned International Agreements and Conventions to which Nigeria is signatory to notably: a. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights which enshrines right to social security(1948); b. The African Charter on Human and People’s Rights and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child which advance social protection with the human rights approach (1981); 38
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