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Integrating Demographic Dividend Into the Budgetary Process in Nigeria: A Subnational Perspective

Noah Olasehinde, Olanrewaju Olaniyan, Oyeteju Odufuwa, Olabanji Awodumi, Temitope Olalude, Andat Dasogot, and Musa Wamakko

Sokoto State commenced the implementation of the Demographic Dividend (DD) Programming by developing its Roadmap in 2021. to further commit the State's financial resources into harnessing the gains that accrues from its population age structure, the State developed its DD-sensitive budget by mapping the roadmap activities with the capital projects identified in the 2022 Budget. Adopting the Budget for Demographic Dividend (B4DD) model, this study explored the process to map, estimate the overall cost allocation to these activities and enumerate the agencies expected to coordinate the process. Data were extracted from the 2021 Sokoto State DD-Roadmap and the 2022 Annual State Budget. Only 69 of the 158 activities in the roadmap were mapped with 475 capital projects. 61% of the budgetary projects were not DD-related. the total estimated cost of the 475 DD-related projects was NGN58.53billion. Duplicity of projects should be avoided, and other funding sources explored.