Success Story on Curriculum Review
Following the approval of the new structure by the National Council on Education (NCE), the Senior Secondary School Curricula was revised and its implementation commenced in September 2011 nationwide.
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Skills4girls4life-Towards Sustainability through Community Participation
In commemoration of the International Day of the Girl Child (Day of the Girl) with the theme
‘EmPOWER Girls: Before, during and after crises’, the dRPC organized a one-day meeting with the
following objectives:
DRPC brings Malala to Kano
"Nigeria faces many challenges - but none of them can be solved without education. Today, more than ten million Nigerian Children are out of school; most of them are girls. This is a tragedy for girls, an enormous waste of human potential and a threat to the future of Nigeria." - Malala Yousafzai, July 19, 2017
Building Resilience and Resistance to Child, Early and Forced marriage through acquiring skills
The development Research and Projects Centre (dRPC) set out to investigate a much
touted assumption in the child, early, and forced marriage community: that acquiring
vocational skills offers girls a pathway to empowerment, agency, and poverty
alleviation. The dRPC also set out to test the assumption that empowerment and
agency contribute to building girls’ resilience and resistance to child, early, and
forced marriage.
A report of the empowerment factor in therapeutic approaches to support adolescent girl survivors of trauma
The study maps out and compares therapeutic approaches employed by mental providers to support girls and young women survivors of psychological trauma from the Northwest and Northeast Nigeria. The study employs a content analysis methodology of support initiatives in the Northwest and Northeast to identify the extent to which empowerment components are incorporated into the approaches, pedagogy and the gender of facilitators.
dRPC Education Sector Response to Covid-19
The development Research and Projects Center (dRPC) has an established
record as the leading non-profit in Nigeria's basic education space. With over
20 years of development programming experience in the education sector and
having managed approximately 12 donors funded education interventions.
The dRPC's education projects are a core component of its 2018 to 2023, 5-
year Strategic Plan. With multi-year support from the MacArthur Foundation
coming to and with Covid-19 adjustments to funding priorities the dRPC's
education project portfolio was threatened by inadequate funding in 2020.
National Dialogue on Play based learning in ECCD in Nigeria held in Abuja, February 2023
Over 24 years of work in ECCD on the Policy and Practice showed that most ECCD classes, even in private schools, a low-value is placed on play and early years’ education is almost identical to that of primary one. The…
Feature of dRPC’s Work on ECCD at the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) – US: Inclusive Education and ECCD Community of Practice Platform
The dRPC was invited to share its work on ECCD at the GCE-US Inclusive ECCD Community of Practice Platform on the 14th of March 2023. Other organizations who works were presented at the webinar include Education Cannot Wait (ECW), International…
dRPC Trains NIPSS Mgt, Directing Staffers, IT team on Brand visibility.
Management Staffers, Directing Staffers, and the IT team of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, NIPSS participated in a 3-day intensive capacity building on Brand visibility organized by the development Research and Project Centre, in collaboration with the Digital Bridge…