Aid in Nigeria

• Example of long-term development aid:

  UK - Helping Nigeria to reach its millennium development goals

  • Adavantages
  • Improves nutrition
  • Improving nutrition of women and young girls
  • Disadvantages
  • could become dependant on the UK
  • Debt
• Example of large-scale aid

  World bank - A damn built across the gongula river

  • Advantages
  • Increases food production
  • flood protection
  • Disadvantages
  • takes a while to affect individual people
• Example of bottom up development

  Oxfam - improves productivity so there's more food

  • Advantages
  • Helps female farmers become leaders and improves resilience of small farm
• Example of emergency aid

  UN - provides emergency help and supplies emergency food

  • advantages
  • makes sure that refugees get the help that they need
• Example of bilateral aid

  China - providing arms, equipment and training

  • Advantages
  • Improving the Nigerian army
  • disadvantages
  • china could be exploiting Nigeria for oil
• Example of multi-lateral aid

  World Bank - improving health of women and children

  • Advantages
  • provide contraception and family planning