This document proposes a financial solution to address the problem of girl-child hawking in Nigeria. It defines girl-child hawking and provides statistics on its prevalence. Poverty and lack of awareness are identified as key obstacles. Potential ways to raise funds and solve the problem are discussed, including developing poverty alleviation programs, fundraising efforts, and creating an action plan focused on a specific local government. The overall goal is to curb exploitation of women and children and promote education and gender equality in Nigeria.

1. A Proposed Financial Solution To Solve
The Problem of Girl-Child Hawking in
Nigeria
A Development Finance Impact Project
December 7, 2015.

2. Who is the target audience
for this project?
The General Public, Government
Officials, Policy Makers,
International & National Non-
Governmental Organizations
(NGO’s), Multinational & Local
Companies, Philanthropists, Banks,
Traditional Rulers etc.

3. What is girl-child hawking?
 Who is a child? A child is defined as any person less
than 18 years of age.
 What is Street hawking? In its simplest form, is the act
of selling of products along the streets or from place to
place. E.g Street vendors, beggars, car washers, shoe
shiners.
 “Street hawking is the recruitment, transportation,
coercion, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons, by
means of threat or use of force or other forms of
coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, of abuse of
power, giving or receiving of payments or benefits to
achieve the consent of a person having control over
another person for the purpose of exploitation”
(UNCATOC, 2000)

4. Statistics on Girl-Child
Hawking
 Street hawking is the largest criminal activity in the
world after arms and drug trafficking (Tola, 2008)
 An estimated 20,000 girl children are engaged in street
hawking in the northern parts of the country
(UNDP,2005)
 According to International Labour Organization, the
number of working children under the age of 14 in
Nigeria is estimated at 15 million.
 Research also shows that child workers display poor
educational achievements.

5. Causes & Effects of girl-child
hawking
 CAUSES
 Poverty
 Religion
 Poor family planning
 Child trafficking
 Wars
 Illiteracy
 Exploitation
 Urbanization
 EFFECTS
 Prostitution
 Rape
 Unwanted Pregnancies
 Poor Education
 Gang stealing
 Moral decline
 Diseases
 Fatigue
 Psychological tremor
 Demoralization

6. Suicide Bomber
Sexual Abuse
Baby factory
Assaultt

7. Reasons why government officials & other
stakeholders would want to help in solving
the problem.
 Preservation of fundamental human rights.
 Putting a stop to exploitation of Women & Children
 Preservation of Life.
 Reduction of Poverty.
 Promotion of education.
 Prevention of sexual abuse.
 Prevention of diseases i.e HIV, VVF,
 Promotion of gender equality.
 Prevention of Social Vices. i.e Human trafficking, stealing, prostitution,
insurgency etc.

8. What are the main obstacles
standing in the way of solving the
problem?
 Poverty i.e. 70% of population earns less than $1.25 a
day. (UNDP, 2005)
 Lack of finance.
 Lack of awareness by the general public to stop the
practice.
 Lack of adequate government policy to address the
challenge.
 Lack of policy implementation, prosecution or
penalties.
 Lack of commitment.

9. How can we solve the
problem
 Raise finance/ funds to curb the problem.
 Implementation of Child Rights Act.
 Construction of Orphanage Homes
 Reaching out to the poor
 Amending some religious/traditional practices.
 Fund raising
 Sensitization/Awareness
 Advocacy
 Poverty Alleviation programmes.

10. How to raise money to solve the
problem of girl-child hawking
 Local, State, & Federal governments budgets.
 Government develop a sustainable poverty alleviation
project using community banks to provide short term
soft loans to the underprivileged at very low interest.
 Fund raisers.
 Donations by international and national NGO’s.
 Corporate Social Responsibility by companies.
 Donations by the general public.
 Donations by International Financial Institutions.

11. DEVELOPING AN ACTION PLAN
 Develop an immediate and long term plan that has a
specific, measurable, achievable, realistic & time bound
objective.
 Narrow down the area of study to a particular local
government so that you can easily be implemented and
monitor progress.
 Determine the inputs (human & material resources)
needed to implement the plan and outline the
deliverables (outputs) for each local government.
 Set clearly your key performance indicators for ease of
monitoring and evaluation.

13. CONCLUSION
Child hawking on the streets is an act against Human Right Law. It is not a
welcome practice and it is banished. Nigeria needs to do much more in
solving this problem.