NTCO-National Cash Transfer Office

The programme is focused on responding to deficiencies in capacity and lack of investment in human capital, especially amongst our poorest citizens. Beneficiaries of the programme are mined from the National Social Register (NSR), comprising State Social Registers (SR) of poor and vulnerable households.

The Household Uplifting Programme (HUP) otherwise known as the Conditional Cash Transfer aims at responding to deficiencies in capacity and lack of investment in human capital of poor and vulnerable households. The Programme focuses on the poor and vulnerable households in Nigeria as identified through a combination of geographic and community-based targeting mechanisms. The identified household’s socioeconomic data is subjected to Proxy Means Testing (PMT) for ranking the poor and vulnerable in the National Social Register (NSR).

HUP has a slogan “Beta Don Come” (meaning better things have arrived) and aims to support development objectives and priorities to achieve specific outcomes as outlined below: 

Improved household consumption.
Increase in utilization of health and nutrition services
Improved school enrolment and attendance.
Improved environmental sanitation and management.
Asset acquisition.
Beneficiaries engaged in sustainable livelihood.
The Household Uplifting Programme is designed to deliver timely and accessible cash transfers to beneficiary households.  The first type of transfer will be given to all eligible households selected from the NSR, while the second type of transfer (top-up) will be given to a subset of the recipients of the first (CCT), upon fulfilling certain conditions.
 
Cash Transfers
One of the major activities of the programme is to facilitate the transfer of N5, 000 per month to beneficiaries, which is paid on bi-monthly bases (every two months). The payment is given to all eligible households selected from the National Social Register (NSR). The second type of transfer known as top-up (additional five thousand also given bi-monthly) is given to a subset of the recipients of the first type of transfer, upon fulfilling certain conditions.