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From John Adams, Minna
The Kontagora Emirate Education Advancement Initiative, has come up with a five-year blueprint for the advancement of education in the emirate.
This was part of the communique at the end of extensive deliberations among traditional leaders, government representatives, education stakeholders, community leaders, parents, youth representatives, and development partners, aimed at repositioning education in the emirate.
With the theme: “Bringing Children Back, Helping Them Learn, Keeping Them in School, and Building Communities that Value Education Programme, Mu Koma Makaranta Initiative,” the Kontagora Emirate Education Advancement Initiative, said it recognises education as the foundation for individual empowerment, community development, and sustainable progress.
According to the communique signed by the Convener, Mu Koma Makaranta Initiative, Isah Adamu Ibrahim of Badamasi Babangida University, and the Rapporteur, Dr. Shaima’u Aliyu Yunusa of the Federal University of Education, Kontagora; the meeting acknowledged that educational challenges, especially within the emirate cannot be solved by schools or government alone.
The communique pointed out that the five-year blueprint covering 2026 to 2031, drafted by the initiative, is a collective approach of the emir, village heads, families, communities, institutions, and partners, which is required to ensure that every child has access to quality education and a pathway to success.
The key resolutions and commitments were that a structured five-year education improvement framework should be implemented to identify, support, monitor, and retain children within the education system. The emirate maintained that the initiative should focus on bringing out-of-school children back into learning through identification, family engagement, community mobilisation, assessment, placement, and continuous support.
To achieve this, the initiative estimated an annual budget of ₦543,375,000, equivalent to approximately US$402,500, covering the costs of training, supervision, teaching and learning kits, cost per child, cost per centre, and other related implementation expenses.
