"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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
In commemoration of the 2022 Annual 16 days of Activism against gender based violence, the dRPC with funding from Ford Foundation and in collaboration with the Federation of Muslim Women’s Associations in Nigeria (FOMWAN), Al-NAS Consulting Limited and Community Awareness…
The African Union Commission launched the Campaign to End Child Marriage in 2014 to accelerate the implementation of Ending Child Marriage (ECM) programs and interventions among member states. To date more than 30 countries have launched campaigns and are implementing…
