A complete of 32,420 adolescent women in Kwara State have obtained ₦40,000 every as conditional money transfers underneath the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) venture.
The Kwara AGILE Project Coordinator, Adeshina Salami, disclosed this in an interview with LEADERSHIP, including that beneficiaries had been additionally receiving coaching in life expertise, digital literacy and vocational expertise.
He mentioned the programme was designed to strengthen women’ schooling and be sure that feminine college students remained in class and accomplished their schooling.
Salami mentioned 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, mentioned the venture was launched to handle challenges together with undesirable pregnancies, early marriages and excessive dropout charges amongst adolescent women.
He mentioned enrolment amongst women aged between 10 and 20 had been low, whereas the fertility price amongst adolescent women was above 70 per cent.
“However, with AGILE involvement, the enrolment rate is now increasing,” he mentioned.
Adisa, nonetheless, harassed the necessity for sustainable measures to make sure the programme’s positive aspects had been maintained after the intervention ended.
He mentioned the state authorities wanted to maintain efforts to handle the challenges that prompted the initiative and be sure 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 mentioned.
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