Educating Vulnerable and Hard-to-Reach Women and Girls in Nigeria

The project addresses the barriers that often prevent girls and women from attending and staying in school in targeted regions of Nigeria. The project improves girls' access to education by: providing: (1) 2 500 vouchers targeted to vulnerable adolescent girls to cover school fees; (2) conducting enrolment campaigns; and (3) engaging traditional community and religious leaders on girls’ education. The project improves the quality of schools by: (1) establishing accelerated learning programs for 5 700 students (2 850 girls; 2 850 boys); (2) training teachers on gender-responsive pedagogy; and (3) supporting school-based management committees and local education authorities to implement action plans to make schools safer and more girl-friendly based on girls’ feedback. The main beneficiaries are 25 203 girls and 23 419 boys from 10 to 19 years old taught through informal and formal schools; 700 teachers (of which half are women) of both formal and informal schools; 700 traditional and religious leaders; and 120 education government officials.

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 and non-formal education from early childhood to the end of secondary for girls adolescent girls and women including those with disabilities in crisis- and conflict-affected and fragile situations and humanitarian settings.