Twenty years ago, in the department of political science at Bayero University Kano, I came across a poster. “If you think education is expensive; try ignorance” it said. This was my first introduction to a popular Nigerian saying that captures the…
There is much to celebrate in girls’ education. Since the Education for All movement and the setting of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000, the number of out-of-school girls at primary school level has dropped from 58.9 million in 2000 to 30.7 million in 2012 and the share of girls that make up the out-of school population has decreased from 58 to 53 percent.
This study mapping early marriage in West Africa is the product of two years of discovery and learning by a team of development researchers. The result is not only an exhaustive report on the current status of the problem and efforts to combat it, but also an important model for future studies in other areas of the world where the practice persists.
This article explores the pattern of early marriage in Africa. It focuses on the sub-Saharan region as an area with the highest rates of early marriage in the world. The harmful effects of early marriage are explored in terms of impact on the health, education and economic well-being of young girls.
The empirical basis for the project was the 2013 Ford Foundation report, Mapping Early Marriage in West Africa which recommended that child marriage interventions be carried out by coalitions of civil society organizations working in partnership with government departments. The…
The project ‐ Building Collaboration, Partnerships and Political Commitment to Delay Early Marriage and the Onset of Childbearing in Northern Nigeria is implemented by a consortium of 4 civil society partners with funding from the Ford Foundation West Africa office.…
Since 2002 leadership development has been as the centre of our capacity building work. So central is leadership development, that it has been incorporated as a strategy into all the Centre’s capacity building activities for both government officials and CSO…
The Centre views the area of advocacy in RH/FP as an important issue of health governance. Through its advocacy programs we seek to improve RH/FP outcomes by increasing capacity of civil and professional stakeholders (CAPS) in the health sector to…
Summary of findings The development Research and Projects Centre (dRPC) is supporting a Consortium of three indigenous Nigerian NGOs in promoting girls’ education in some Northern States (Kaduna and Kano). The project is funded by the Ford Foundation and anchored by…
The development Research and Projects Centre (dRPC) is registered intermediary non-profit organization established with a mission of strengthening the capacity (organizational and technical capacity) of civil society organizations to design and implement transformative and sustainable development interventions which engage government and address felt needs of the vulnerable and excluded such as women and girls.
