With over 30 years of experience in education programming in Nigeria, dRPC has a proven track record of impactful interventions in the sector with specific focus on Girls Education and Child Protection. The dRPC Girls Education piece of work focus on improving access to quality education for girls, expanding opportunities for girls’ empowerment through skills acquisition and career development programs and addressing the issues of Gender Based Violence in and from School for Girls through various projects implemented.

The development Research and Projects Centre
is is currently in the second half of the first year
of the BUILD grant. This report captures activ
ities in the period of performance from July to
November 2022. During this period the dRPC im
plemented all activities in its workplan.

As part of the Teacher Development for Transition (TDT) activities, the dRPC organized a capacity-building workshop on language transition for 100 teachers from 10 primary schools in Kano State at the American Space.

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.

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:

"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

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.