communities, based on the community’s comparative advantage in the production or availability of the major input demand of the enterprises. 6.2.6 Nigeria’s population and budgetary constraints posed a great challenge to NAPEP in its efforts at making substantive impact in poverty eradication. A close look at relevant indicators in the country shows that the efforts of Government in all the sectors have started yielding positive results. For example, the UNDP 2011 Human Development Report released in November 2011 showed an improvement in Nigeria’s human development index from 0.423 in 2010 to 0.459 in 2011. 6.2.7 Government in its efforts to achieve sustainable economic development, is making more efforts at improving the situation so as to achieve the target of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) as regards poverty reduction. Government is also making efforts at harmonizing all the agencies involved in the eradication of poverty in Nigeria in order to instill efficiency and effectiveness in the pursuit of their mandates. 6.2.8 The State Governments are also addressing the issue of poverty as they consider peculiar or specific to their social environment. An example of such is the Mother and Child Care Initiative in Ebonyi State, where the State Government takes the responsibility for the health problem of vulnerable women and children, with special emphasis on women suffering from Vesicovaginal Fistula (VVF). 6.3 Objective 3: Strengthening Policies, Delivery Mechanisms and Outputs in Key Social Development Areas including Education for All, Combating HIV/AIDS and other Communicable Diseases 6.3.1 In December 2010, the Federal Government of Nigeria launched a National Strategic Health Development Plan (NSHDP) to cover the period 2010 to 2015. This programme is to improve on the Health Sector Reform Programme (HSRP) that existed between 2003 and 2007. The NHSDP is designed to ensure that Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), the private sector, communities and donors work harmoniously to enhance the implementation of essential health services in line with national health policy goals. The HSRP suffered 88