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Traditional Leaders for Woment & Girls in Northern Nigeria

The Emir’s Outreach Mobilisation Visit to Ajingi for Improved MNCH & Education

The Emir of Kano HRH Muhammadu Sanusi II undertook an Outreach mobilization visit to Ajingi Town, headquarters of Ajingi LGA on Sunday 19th November 2017. This is part of the activities of the Traditional Rulers for Women and Girls in Northern Nigeria project being executed by the development Research & Projects Centre (dRPC) and the Kano Emirate Council Committee for Health (KECCoH) with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF).

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August 31, 2018

N-SIP Third Party Monitors

Brief about N-SIP project

dRPC was engaged by the Action Aid Nigeria as Third-party Monitor (TPM) to monitor the implementation of three programme areas of N-SIP (The Government Enterprise Empowerment Programme (GEEP), Home Grown School Feeding Programme and Job Creation Programme (N-Power)), in Kano…

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August 31, 2018

Education resources

Why Ending Child Marriage Needs to Be an Education Goal

Ending child marriage is critical for girls’ rights, health, wellbeing and ability to survive into adulthood. Ending child marriage lessens the burden on health infrastructure and reduces the human footprint of resource poor countries. It reduces human suffering, recognizes human dignity and challenges gender based discrimination.

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August 30, 2018

Blogs

Connecting local champions of girls’ education in West Africa and globally

While stories of Boko Haram enslaving girls and burning down schools abound in Western media, counter-trends of local champions leading the way for girls’ education in the West African countries of Nigeria and Mali largely go unnoticed. Despite real challenges—like…

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August 30, 2018

Blogs

Indigenous leadership in aid localization: Implications for Nigeria and financing for development

2015 could prove to be a pivotal year for development. In the discussions to come, supporting local leadership in development should be given high priority. Since the revolution of participatory development in the 1970s, local leadership has bubbled up as…

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August 30, 2018

Blogs, Lagos

The Lessons We’ve Learned on Cultivating Community Leaders for Girls’ Education

There is growing recognition that girls’ education is an important and fundamental precondition for human security. There seems to be a new commitment among Ministry of Education officials in countries ranging from Malawi to Nigeria to Jordan, especially as discussions…

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August 30, 2018

Blogs

Ending Child Marriage Should be a Development Priority for Africa’s Grassroots in 2014

The year 2014 holds yet another chance to eliminate the harmful traditional practice of child marriage in a long struggle that has consumed the attention of gender activists, public health practitioners and human rights advocates over the past 50 years.…

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August 30, 2018

Blogs

Fixing the Education System One Piece at a Time in Nigeria

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…

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August 30, 2018

Blogs

Improving Learning Opportunities and Outcomes for Girls in Africa

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.

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August 30, 2018