A complete of 32,420 adolescent women in Kwara State have acquired ₦40,000 every as conditional money transfers underneath the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) mission.
The Kwara AGILE Project Coordinator, Adeshina Salami, disclosed this in an interview with LEADERSHIP, including that beneficiaries have been additionally receiving coaching in life expertise, digital literacy and vocational expertise.
He stated the programme was designed to strengthen women’ training and be certain that feminine college students remained at school and accomplished their training.
Salami stated the initiative focused feminine college students in each private and non-private colleges throughout the state.
Also talking, the Deputy Project Coordinator of Kwara AGILE and System Strengthening Sub-component Lead, Lawal Hamzat Adisa, stated the mission was launched to deal with challenges together with undesirable pregnancies, early marriages and excessive dropout charges amongst adolescent women.
He stated enrolment amongst women aged between 10 and 20 had been low, whereas the fertility fee amongst adolescent women was above 70 per cent.
“However, with AGILE involvement, the enrolment rate is now increasing,” he stated.
Adisa, nonetheless, confused the necessity for sustainable measures to make sure the programme’s positive factors have been maintained after the intervention ended.
He stated the state authorities wanted to maintain efforts to deal with the challenges that prompted the initiative and be certain that women accomplished secondary college with out falling behind their male counterparts.
“To sustain Kwara AGILE, we have now domesticated the national policy and we now have Kwara State Policy on Gender in Education,” he stated.
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