By Funmilayo Adeyeyi
Stakeholders in the education sector have advocated for the implementation of Gender Responsive Education Sector Plan (GRESP) in the education activities of various states.
The National Chairperson, Forum for African Women Educationists (FAWE), Jiddere Kaibo, made the call at a Two-Day training workshop for journalists in Abuja on Thursday.
Kaibo said that there was need for states to put in place education sector plan that would address critical gender needs affecting learners.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that GRESP is a two-year project to strengthen local Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) as actors of good governance.
The project title:’Strengthening Civil Society to Enhance Education for All in Northern Nigeria’, is also aimed at empowering CSOs to contribute to inclusive and open policy dialogue.
Kaibo said that the project, introduced by Plan International Nigeria, and fully funded by the European Union (EU), was implemented by FAWE in Adamawa and Safe the Child Initiative (STCI) in Sokoto state.
She added that the project, which is in two phases, has the GRESP and Tsangaya transformation components.
“We are advocating for education sector plan to be gender responsive so that the issues of boys and girls can be put into consideration in clear terms.
”The education sector plan will be able to have actions that are targeted at addressing girls and boys issues in schools,” she said.
The chairperson also emphasised the need for government to begin to outline activities and actions within a certain period and see to their implementation.
On his part, Head of Social Mobilisation, Plan International Nigeria, Laban Onisimus, said that the project had recorded success in the two implementing states.
Onisimus called on education actors in the states to own the project.
He said that the capacities of 30 CSOs had been built to cascade the project to states so that it would be adopted for the transformation of the entire education sector.(NAN)
