Must be certain and permanent.
Anifalaje ’17 [Kehinde; 2017; Lecturer, Department of Commercial and Industrial Law, University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria; African Human Rights Law Journal, “Implementation of the Right to Social Security in Nigeria,” vol. 17, no. 2, University of Pretoria, p. 413–435]
5 Social security as poverty alleviation and social protection programmes
Ideally, social security is a permanent social welfare structure which aims at a piecemeal and steady incremental improvement in the quality and standard of living of the citizenry. There is no gainsaying the fact that, in most developing communities such as Nigeria, there is a causal relationship between the absence of social security on the one hand, and poverty, on the other. However, the government initiatives which focus on temporary or permanent poverty eradication, are not social security measures, but are transient steps taken to form a suitable foundation on which social security programmes may be based. For example, in 2004 a survey of policies and interventions of various administrations on issues of poverty revealed 28 federal projects and programmes with poverty-reduction aims.73 These include community banks; the Family Support Programme; the National Directorate of Employment; the Peoples' Bank; Better Life for Rural Women; and the Directorate of Food, Road and Rural Infrastructure. These are some of the programmes that were established to address various manifestations of poverty, such as unemployment, lack of access to credit and rural and gender dimensions of poverty.