The objective of the Growth and Employment in States Project for Nigeria is to increase growth and employment in participating states. This project has 3 components. Component 1 will improve investment climate that will reduce the cost and risk of doing business by providing a greater incentive to invest. Component 2 will create jobs in key sectors and increase competitiveness of strategic clusters including: information and communications; entertainment; hospitality; wholesale and retail trade; construction; and meat and leather sectors. Component 3 will provide effective project implementation, communication, monitoring and evaluation of the program by evaluating and disseminating information to provide valuable lessons which, through communication and peer learning, will help to leverage the project impacts.
