Country Program Materials
2008 Congressional Budget Justification
The CBJ summarizes USAID activities and funding in Nigeria.
2005
Annual Report [38kb - PDF]
In-depth description of USAID activities
in Nigeria, organized by sector.
USAID/Nigeria Links
 Success Stories
Country Profile (140kb, pdf)
Recent
Publications & Reports
Global
Health: HIV/AIDS
Building
Democracy
FRAME:
Knowledge Sharing for the Natural Resource Community
USAID/Nigeria Mission
Web Site:
www.usaid.gov/ng
Mission Director:
Sharon Cromer
Local Address:
USAID/Nigeria
Metro Plaza, 3rd Floor
Zakaria Maimalari Street
P.M.B. 519
Garki
Abuja
Nigeria
Tel: 234-09 234-3048, 234-2175, 234-2189, 234-7173, 234-2364,
234-3469
Fax: 234-09 234-2930
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USAID is helping farmers’ organizations, like this group in Kano, Nigeria, to plant and harvest higher-yielding crops. These women have boosted their incomes by producing more cowpeas than in previous years.
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Nigeria
USAID's Strategy in Nigeria
As Africa's most populous country, Nigeria’s prosperity
and stability are essential to growth and stability in West
Africa and in sub-Saharan Africa as a whole. Nigeria is the
fifth largest exporter of oil to the United States, and there
is more U.S. investment in Nigeria than in any other country
in Africa. Nigeria has supported regional stability through
its diplomatic and peacekeeping efforts throughout the continent.
USAID’s current programs address democracy and governance,
agriculture and economic reform, education and health services,
and HIV/AIDS.
STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE
Nigeria has not yet overcome a legacy of military rule. It
continues to struggle to consolidate democratic institutions
and the rule of law, reduce rampant corruption, and boost public
confidence in the democratic transition. USAID’s program
works with civil society and selected government institutions
to improve the environment for accountable governance and conflict
management in Nigeria. The program strengthens the advocacy
capacity of civil society; introduces policy and legislative
reforms within selected government institutions; and helps to
support transparent elections in Nigeria. Innovative youth programs
and interfaith dialogue have reduced the potential for violent
conflict. USAID has also introduced conflict early warning and
conflict prevention networks in the Niger Delta and other conflict
hot spots.
IMPROVING ECONOMIC LIVELIHOODS
Although Nigeria is a major oil producer, oil revenues amount
to less than $150 per capita per year and provide little benefit
to the majority of Nigeria’s citizens. USAID’s program
supports economic growth and agricultural development by encouraging
policy improvements and by providing technical assistance, training,
and technologies to farmers and entrepreneurs. The three goals
are to increase agricultural productivity by making improved
fertilizers, seeds, and environmentally-friendly agronomic practices
more readily available to farmers, and linking producers with
markets; strengthen capital markets, with an emphasis on microfinance
institutions; and foster private sector development through
regulatory reform, technical assistance, and training. Farmers
in northern Nigeria using new technologies provided through
USAID assistance improved their food security and increased
their income by increasing cowpea yield from 0.2 tons per hectare
to 1.0 tons per hectare over the past two seasons, while women’s
groups in the south of the country have boosted their incomes
by processing and selling cassava chips, flour, and other food
and industrial products.
IMPROVING SOCIAL SECTOR SERVICE DELIVERY
Half of Nigerian adults are illiterate, 20 percent of Nigerian
children die before reaching their fifth birthday, and the Nigerian
population is growing at an unsustainable rate. Recognizing
the powerful links between education and health, USAID’s
integrated, community-driven programs addresses primary education,
family planning and reproductive health, and child survival
in Nigeria. Activities include malaria prevention and treatment,
routine immunization against preventable childhood diseases
such as measles, increased availability of voluntary family
planning and child spacing services, and safe motherhood programs.
The program also improves the quality of instruction in public
and Islamic primary schools through teacher training, curriculum
development, and community participation.
FIGHTING HIV/AIDS AND TUBERCULOSIS
Nigeria has only recently begun to understand and to respond
to the potential impact of HIV/AIDS in the country. Nigeria
accounts for nearly 10 percent of the HIV/AIDS burden in the
world, with 4 million of its citizens living with the infection,
a number that may increase to between 7 and 9 million by 2010.
One million Nigerian children have already been orphaned by
HIV/AIDS, and this number will more than triple over the next
seven years. In response, Nigeria has been designated as one
of 15 countries worldwide to be assisted under the President’s
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. USAID collaborates closely with
the Nigerian Government and other U. S. Government agencies
in Nigeria to reach 350,000 people living with HIV/AIDS with
anti-retroviral treatment; prevent over one million new infections;
and provide care and support to 1,750,000 HIV-affected individuals,
including those co-infected with tuberculosis.
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