GEEP

GEEP was initially launched in 2016, under the office of the Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo. However, it was restructured and relaunched to GEEP 2.0 on 24th August 2019, after the creation of Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development (FMHADMSD).

Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP) is a micro-lending intervention that targets traders, artisans, enterprising youth, farmers, and women in particular, by providing loans between 10,000 and 300,000 at no monthly cost to beneficiaries. Its major goal is to ensure vulnerable youth, women, farmers, artisans, associations, and traders, who are at the bottom of the economic ladder/pyramid in Kaduna State, have access to credit without collateral.

There are three (3) products:

Marketmoni (₦50,000) – targeting vulnerable, under privileged and marginalised women (female headed households, divorcees, widows) between 18-55 years old.

Tradermoni (₦50,000) – targeting under privileged and marginalised youths, orphans, artisans, PWDs, almajiris, small business owners, between 18-40 years old.

Farmermoni (₦300,000) – targeting rural farmers that operate in the agricultural space focused on agri-preneurship with farm inputs, between 18-55 years old.

13, 928 beneficiaries have been enumerated across the 3 products (TraderMoni, MarketMoni, & FarmerMoni).