Girls’ Education in Conflict-affected Areas in Nigeria

The project addresses the barriers that prevent girls between the ages of 6 and 14 from attending and staying in school in targeted regions in Nigeria. The project improves girls' access to education by: 1) engaging with decision-makers in households as well as community and religious leaders; and 2) providing conditional financial support through vouchers and cash transfers to vulnerable households to enrol 10 000 girls and keep them in school. The project improves the quality of schools by: 1) recruiting and training 180 volunteer teachers particularly women within communities and transitioning them to the government payroll; 2) supporting 60 school improvement plans to make them more girl-friendly; and 3) training 600 teachers on gender-responsive teaching and classroom management. The main beneficiaries are 29 042 girls aged 6-14 with a particular focus on internally displaced persons out-of-school girls and married adolescent girls. The project also benefits 24 108 boys aged 6-14.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased equitable access to safe secure quality inclusive education and learning by girls adolescent girls and women including those with disabilities in crisis- and conflict-affected and fragile situations and humanitarian settings; and (2) improved equitable and coordinated provision of innovative safe quality gender-responsive and evidence-based formal education for crisis girls including those with disabilities in crisis- and conflict-affected and fragile situations and humanitarian settings.