Kwara Govt Partners with World Bank to Train Grievance and GBV Focal Committees in Schools

Date: 2024-09-19

As reported by Nigerian Tribune, the Kwara State Government, in partnership with the World Bank, has constituted and trained members of Grievance Redress Committees (GRCs) and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) focal persons in 898 Junior and Senior Secondary Schools across the state.

Speaking at the training workshop in Ilorin on Wednesday, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, represented by the Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Hon. Sa'adatu Modibbo-Kawu, said the initiative is part of the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) project, supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and the World Bank. The programme aims to enhance secondary education opportunities for girls in targeted areas.

The governor emphasized that the project focuses on improving access, retention, and completion rates of secondary school education among girls.

The training was scheduled to take place for a period of two weeks, across the 16 local government areas of the state, with the constitution and training divided into nine clusters for a maximum impact.

Two clusters were located in Ilorin, three clusters in Oro, and one each in Offa, Lafiagi, Okuta, and Kaiama.

“In the course of the project implementation, grievances are inevitable. Mechanisms have to be put in place to mitigate and allow timely resolution without recourse to escalation.

“Therefore, appropriate bodies to address grievances and gender based violence in each school was constituted and effectively trained. Each school attended the training with three personnel; the School Principal, The representative of the Community Head and a female School Guidance Counsellor”. As part of accruable benefits of the AGILE project, the governor said that there would be renovation of all public secondary schools in the state, new construction of schools in places mapped out, provision of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) facilities, Conditional Cash Transfer, Life Skills, Second Chance Education and digital literacy.

Governor Abdulrazaq, who said that N150 million was paid as counterpart funds for the AGILE project in August 2022, added that the move attested to his administration's commitment to girls' education.

“Thanks to the proactive nature of the governor, Kwara is one of the eleven (11) Additional Financing (AF) States to benefit from the project, having fulfilled the World Bank requirements.

“Seven parent states keyed into the project first and these include; Borno, Ekiti, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi and Plateau States”.

Also speaking, the national Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) officer from the National Project Coordinating Unit (NPCU), Mr. Emmanuel Erinms, commended Kwara State Project Implementation Unit (SPIU) for being the first state among the Additional Financing (AF) States of AGILE to commence the constitution and training of GBV and GRC Focal Persons in all public secondary schools, adding that, AGILE is the first project targeting adolescent girls' education in Nigeria and described Kwara as a pacesetter.

Mr. Erinms, thereafter, congratulated Kwara state, for being one of the participating states to benefit from the project.

Also, the Project Coordinator, Kwara AGILE, Mr. Adeshina Azeez Salami, who noted that there are bound to be conflicts during project implementation, said that “it is, therefore, necessary that grievances that arise under the project are appropriately channelled, documented and resolved on time, with fairness and empathy to complainants.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Suleiman Ajadi     Kwara State Fire Service     Muhammad Toyin Sanusi     Olota Of Odo-Owa     Mohammed Ajia Ibrahim     Razaq Ayobami Akanbi     College Of Health     Abdulrahman Iliasu     Umar Yakubu Jaja     Issa Oloruntogun     Wahab Isa     Dagbalodo     CLAY POT     Bio Ibrahim     Abdullah Janet Amudat     Balogun Gambari     SSA Youth     Majlis For Sadaqah, Zakat And Waqf     Kwara Politics     Segun Olawoyin     Kwara State Health Insurance Agency     Sulyman Atolagbe Alege     Ajibike Katibi     Sulu Gambari     Standard Organization Of Nigeria     KWASEIC     Yetunde Balogun     Baakini     Owode Market     Earlyon Technologies     Students Union Government     Maimunat Oniyangi     Galadima     Ahmed     Mamatu Abdullahi     Onilupeju Of Ilupeju     Wasiu Onidugbe     Binta Abubakar-Mora     Jamila Bio Ibrahim     Musbau A. Akanji     Saka Onimago     AGILE Programme     Alapado     NITDA     Vishvas KOZ Tractors     Akanji     Laolu Saraki     Abiodun Oyedepo     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     Seed Technologies     Doyin Awoyale     Women For Change And Development Initiative     Temitope Ogunbanke     Illyasu Abdullahi     Ifelodun     Yahaya Oloriegbe     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     Senior Ibrahim Suleiman     Awodun     Taofik Abdulkareem     Saka Isau     Pakata Development Association     Sulyman Buhari     Bareke     Gbugbu International Market     Gbemisola Oguntimehin     Toyosi Thomas     Kamaldeen Ajibade     Sheriff Shagaya     Alagbado     Zubair Folorunsho Erubu     JAMB     Saliu Ajia     Oloyede     Yusuf Ali     Plat Technologies     Igbomina    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Sadiq Buhari     Bolaji Abdullahi     Garba Dogo     Kudirat Arinola Lawal     Mukhtar Shagaya     Saba Mamman Daniel     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Bankole Omisore     Ronke Adeyemi     HAMFAT Clinic And Maternity     Taofeek Ibraheem     Adamu B. Yaqubu     Kolo     Ishaq Salman     Tafida Of Kaiama     SWAN     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Sunday Fagbemi     KWSIEC     Sanusi Abubakar     Amos Justus Sayo     Olateju Lukman     Dankaka     Vasolar Consortium     Kwasu     Gbemisola Saraki     Communication Network Support Services     Ayodele Shittu     COVID     Yakub Ali-Agan     Shonga     Split Diamond Interchange     Funke Adedoyin     Hassan A. Saliu     Abubakar Bature Sulu-Gambari     Yunus Oniboki     Ilorin Metro Park     Lotus Bank     High Court     Kwara State Governor     Magaji Erubu     Ilorin East     Osinbajo     Aliyu Muhammed     Kwara State Infrastructure Development Fund     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Aso-ofi     Femtech     Funmilayo Mohammed     Oba Abdulrahim     Abdulkareem Alabi     Abdulrazaq Sanni     Mutawali Of Ilorin     Saheed Popoola     PharmAccess Foundation     Sambo Murtala     Musa Ayinla Yeketi     IHS Towers     John Dara     IESA     Magaji Are     Mohammed Yisa     Ibrahim Kayode Adeyemi     Gbugbu     Esinrogunjo     Kwara Restoration Project     Apado     Muhammad Fawaz Abubakar     COVID-19 Palliatives     Binta Abubakar Mora     Alabe     Kwara State Television (KWTV)     Isaac Aderemi Kolawole     Balogun Gambari     Bolakale Saka     Olatunde Olukoya     Bola Shagaya