12 South Africa Child Support Grant Unconditional Cash Transfers 13 Zambia Expanded Public Works Programme School Feeding Programme Public Works linked to access to employment and delivering certain public goods(several are environmental) Unconditional provision of food to orphans and vulnerable children through community schools HIV/AIDS education in schools School based agriculture pilot project(garden) Source: UNDP 2016 As can be observed in Table 2, COPE is the only social protection programme in Nigeria considered adequate to be captured in the UNDP document as at 2016. This is indicative of poor implementation of social protection programme in Nigeria. Nevertheless, a study by Aiyede et. al.(2017) on COPE indicated that conditional cash transfer could contribute to poverty alleviation. Distribution of social protection beneficiaries from selected African countries Togo 0% Senegal 30% Angola 27% Nigeria 1% Morocco 19% Mali 5% Chad 14% Benin 1% Gambia 3% Fig. 1 Distribution of Social Protection Beneficiaries from selected African Countries From Fig. 1, it can be observed that out of the eight countries listed and scored, two of them have significant share of the beneficiaries of social protection- Senegal and Angola. The two countries have more than fifty percent share of the beneficiaries with the remaining six sharing less than a half. Of these moreover, Nigeria and Benin Republic have only 1% each. Considering the size of Nigeria, this is not a good performance in social protection. 43