With over 220 million people, Nigeria is the most populated country in Africa and the sixth most populated in the world. The country’s extreme poverty rates – approximately 46% of the country lives...
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Nigeria to Expand Adolescent Girls’ Education Program to Reach 8.6 Million Girls
Abuja, September 21, 2023 – The World Bank approved additional financing of $700 m for Nigeria to scale up the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) program whose goal is...
Nigeria: A financial incentive scheme is bringing girls back to school
The Government of Nigeria launched the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE). Through AGILE, the state governments of Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Sokoto, Kebbi and Plateau...
Nigeria Development Update (NDU) - June 2023 Edition: Seizing the Opportunity
Nigeria Can Seize the Opportunity to Realize Its Growth Potential ABUJA, June 27, 2023 - The new administration has initiated critical reforms to address macroeconomic imbalances. This window of...
Nigeria to Scale Up Women's Empowerment for Better Economic Outcomes
Abuja, June 22, 2023 - The World Bank has approved $500 million for the Nigeria for Women Program Scale Up (NFWP-SU). The scale-up financing will further support the government of Nigeria to invest...
Nigeria Development Update December 2022 - Nigeria's Choice
To reduce its vulnerability to crisis and rise to its potential, Nigeria has urgent choices to make ABUJA, December 15, 2022 — Nigeria’s economy needs to grow faster to reduce poverty. Despite...
Their money, their rules: how rural women in Nigeria are improving their livelihoods through affinity groups
STORY HIGHLIGHTS Rural women are pooling resources to grow their businesses and Women Affinity Groups have helped more than 350,000 women improve their standards of living. Women affinity groups...
Land, soil and climate change: How Nigeria is enhancing climate resilience to save the future of its people
STORY HIGHLIGHTS More than 12 million people benefited from the $900 million Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Project (NEWMAP) that reinforced the country’s ability to fight climate induced erosion,...
Nigeria Development Update (NDU) June 2022: The Continuing Urgency of Business Unusual
A ‘Business Unusual’ approach, even more urgently needed to reduce inflation, lessen fiscal pressures, and attract investment for jobs ABUJA, June 14, 2022 — Nigeria is in a paradoxical situation:...
Nigeria Poverty Assessment 2022: A Better Future for All Nigerians
This poverty assessment looks to microdata for a more detailed understanding of poverty reduction in Nigeria. While many macroeconomic data are released fairly regularly in Nigeria—with GDP data and...
New Project to Build a Climate-Resilient Landscape in Nigeria
**WASHINGTON, December 14, 2021 – **The World Bank today approved a $700 million credit from the International Development Association (IDA)* for the Nigeria Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid...
Remote Learning During COVID-19 Lockdown is Preventing Learning Loss in Nigeria
STORY HIGHLIGHTS When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, nearly 40 million students, more than half of them in primary schools, were affected by school’s closure. Through its EdoBEST initiative, the Edo...
COVID-19 in Nigeria: Frontline Data and Pathways for Policy
Immediate Policy Action is Needed to Curb the Long-Run Impacts of the COVID-19 Crisis on the Lives and Livelihoods of Nigerian Households, says New World Bank Report COVID-19 has hit countries with a...
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Groundswell Afrique : Les migrations climatiques internes dans les pays d’Afrique de l’ouest (Résumé analytique)
Ousmane Diagana Vice-président, Banque mondiale, Pour l’Afrique de l’Ouest et centrale Comme le dit un proverbe africain, « nous n’héritons pas de la terre de nos ancêtres, nous l’empruntons à nos...
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Groundswell Africa: Internal Climate Migration in West African countries
This report, as part of the Groundswell Africa series, reaffirms the potency for climate change to drive internal migration in West African countries. The results described in this report are based...
Nigeria Scales Up its COVID-19 Vaccination with New Funding for Vaccine Purchase and Deployment
WASHINGTION, September 30, 2021 --- The Government of Nigeria today received approval from The World Bank Board of Directors for a $400 million credit in additional financing from the International...
Climate risk country profile: Nigeria
This climate risk profile is intended to serve as a public good to facilitate upstream country diagnostics, policy dialogue, and strategic planning by providing comprehensive overviews of trends and...
Strengthening recovery and peacebuilding in North-East Nigeria
Key Numbers: 105,000 beneficiaries-49% of whom are women-have gained access to roads, hospitals, water, sanitation and hygiene facilities, and public buildings Psychosocial support services have...
Improving Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Services in Nigeria
WASHINGTON, May 25, 2020 – The World Bank today approved the Nigeria Sustainable Urban and Rural Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Program (SURWASH). The $700 million credit from the...
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Subnational Under-five Mortality Estimates, 1990–2019
The global number of under-five deaths around the world dropped to its lowest point on record in 2019 – down to 5.2 million from 12.5 million in 1990. While progress on reducing under-five mortality...