The Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) has enrolled no fewer than 1,567 adolescent girls who dropped out of school in Bauchi State into its Second Chance centres.
The Bauchi State AGILE Project Coordinator, Hajiya Ladi Mohammed, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Bauchi on Thursday.
She explained that the girls were enrolled under the “Second Chance” initiative of AGILE, which is now referred to as Alternative Education. According to her, “already, we have established 21 centres across the 20 local government areas of the state, where we have a centre in each local government area, with two centres in Bauchi. All the enrolled girls have been placed across these centres and they have started learning two months ago.”
Hajiya Ladi added that the project has made progress in supporting girls’ education through various components designed to enhance learning opportunities and ensure inclusiveness.
She also revealed that AGILE has established a Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) where complaints are received from communities, parents, teachers, and the public concerning AGILE-related activities.
According to her, a grievance redress committee has been constituted and tasked with collecting complaints through GRM boxes across the 20 local government areas in all AGILE intervention schools.
“We also have a Digital Literacy Component where 100 schools have been selected and we have gone round the schools. We have mapped them but we are yet to start the digital literacy programme in the schools because we are still in the process of procuring devices like laptops and solar power materials,” she said.
AGILE is a World Bank-assisted intervention designed to improve secondary education opportunities among girls in targeted areas. The project also seeks to address the challenges facing adolescent girls’ education and empowerment across the participating states.
