Poverty is a deficiency in political, social and economic resources. This is caused by lack of employment, capital to establish businesses to earn income, cultural factor, tradition and religion. Women are supposed to be players in assisting their households and in economic growth and development of any nation. Unfortunately, they are prevented as a result of poverty. Microfinance institutions were established for the past decades to help women in fulfilling their dreams of getting out of poverty. These programs of microfinance institutions have expanded across the globe, to provide the financial needs of poor women who do not have the capacity to access funds from traditional banks. This has been possible due to the intervention of nongovernmental organization and support of governments. This support contributes to economic growth and development of their households, communities and the country at large. The main aim of this study is to examine poverty alleviation in Northeast Nigeria, mediation of performance and the moderating effect of microfinance training. Based on the findings of the literature review and the need for more studies, a conceptual framework was developed to test this relationship. Welfare theory will be used to explain the relationship among the constructs in the conceptual model.

The main aim of this paper is to determine the issues surrounding how government support for social entrepreneurship might possibly influence the social impact on our communities and the growth and development of our economy as a whole. The study uses mainly documentary source to generate the data for this study. The paper also found out that the government is contributing in assisting the social entrepreneurs to identify where to get more resources to finance their activities, organizing enlightenment campaign to create awareness to the citizens in the communities concerning social problems, coordinate and implement programs in conjunction with other organization. Despite the effort of government in this direction, there are some little issues that have hindered the success of government support for social entrepreneurs, such as initiating programs which are not in accordance to government priority areas, issues of power sharing between the government and social entrepreneurs.

The main aim of this paper is to determine the issues surrounding how government support for social entrepreneurship might possibly influence the social impact on our communities and the growth and development of our economy as a whole. The study uses mainly documentary source to generate the data for this study. The paper also found out that the government is contributing in assisting the social entrepreneurs to identify where to get more resources to finance their activities, organizing enlightenment campaign to create awareness to the citizens in the communities concerning social problems, coordinate and implement programs in conjunction with other organization. Despite the effort of government in this direction, there are some little issues that have hindered the success of government support for social entrepreneurs, such as initiating programs which are not in accordance to government priority areas, issues of power sharing between the government and social entrepreneurs.