Adamawa State Government will spend more than N97 billion on the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) Project.
AGILE is a World Bank-assisted project of the Federal Ministry of Education.
The Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Dr Garba Pella, disclosed this in Yola, yesterday, at the end of the state’s maiden meeting on implementation of the project.
Pella said no fewer than 24,000 adolescent girls in 100 schools across the state were expected to benefit from the five-year project aimed at ensuring that adolescent girls complete their secondary education.
The projects to be carried out includes rehabilitation of schools, building new schools, empowerment of girls with skills and empowerment of some vulnerable parents, who use their daughters for hawking, he added.
The Project Coordinator, Dr Umar Idriss, explained that the project “is for learning and empowerment to improve access to secondary education for adolescent girls.”
According to him, the project will help to provide a conducive environment for learning, as some of the schools are dilapidated, despite the state government’s commitment.
“AGILE is here to complement the efforts of the state government through rehabilitation of some schools and construction of new ones,” he said.
