When the project started, the objectives were to reduce maternal and child mortality rate by increasing basic healthcare facilities for women, provide income generating opportunities in agriculture and cottage industries, integrate rural women into national development plans and develop educational training for women. The idea of BLP originated at a workshop organized by Maryam Babangida with the scope of discussing relegation of rural women in discourse affecting national development and invisibility of positive actions towards causes favoring rural women. The programme was discontinued after a change in government. The Better Life Programme for Rural Women or BLP was a project in Nigeria started in September 1987 by Maryam Babangida, the wife of President Ibrahim Babangida. Abuja - Former First Lady and Founder of the Better Life Programme for Rural Women, Dr Maryam Babangida, yesterday in Abuja said the programme, launched in 1986, was a successful. The “development space” between urban and rural areas in Nigeria is very broad (in terms of the provision of economic development, quality of life, access to opportunities, amenities, social services and standard of living). It emphasizes the need for a paradigm shift in the development of rural areas in Nigeria.
The paper is a critical examination of rural development programmes and the challenge of rural underdevelopment in Nigeria. Better life Program for the African Rural Women March 8 A woman should be comfortable driving her family, herself and her organization- Josphine Nweze, panelist.
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