Civil rights group validates baseline report on Adamawa girl-child education
By Abayomi Olugbade


The African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD) with support from Malala Fund is set to validate the baseline survey report of its project “Community Led Collective Action for Girls Education” being implemented in Adamawa State, Irohinoodua reports.

The survey conducted to ascertain the trend of out-of-school girls in Numan, Song and Maiha Local Government Areas was also to unearth the issues, challenges and chat way forward to reconstructing the narrative of education in the State, and ultimately promote girl enrollment, retention and completion in secondary school.

A statement released by Frances Igwilo, Centre LSD Gulmakia Champion of the Malala Fund and made available to Irohinoodua states that Adamawa state is amongst the educationally disadvantaged states, characterized by low school attendance at all levels with an abysmal record of girl child education.

She stated that the trend is worsened by the increasing wave of insurgency, terrorism, kidnapping and brutal killing of innocent citizens by armed militant groups in the state.

The baseline report validation, therefore, is put together to have stakeholders’ input(s) to make the knowledge product that will emerge at the end of the day a document that everyone will relate with and reference.

The release enjoined members of the public particularly education stakeholders in the State to be part of the process by gracing the event with their presence, or be part of the proceedings at the Validation by following on our twitter handle #Girls2School @centrelsd