Jigawa Govt, UNICEF, Other Set to Address Out-of-School Rate
Jigawa state government in collaboration with European Union (EU) and United Nations Children Emergency Funds (UNICEF) have embarked on five days train the trainers for community engagement strategies to address the out-of-school rate.
Nnenna Orji 
The Jigawa state government in collaboration with European Union (EU) and United Nations Children Emergency Funds (UNICEF) have embarked on five days train the trainers for community engagement strategies on mentoring and monitoring to improve and maintained qualities formal and informal schools in the state.
According to the UNICEF Focal Point Officer at the JIgawa State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Hajiya Umma Abdulkadir the project, funded by the EU through UNICEF, is to train 470 School Base Management Committees (SBMCs) and Community Base Management Committees (CBMCs) from 10 local government areas in the state.
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She said: “The 470 participants were members of where drown from School Base Management Committees (SBMCs) and Community Base Management Committees (CBMCs), desk officers and agency for mass education officials whom were also to go back to their respective areas across the selected 10 local government areas to train others”.
Hajiya Abdulkadir explained that “our target after these five days training of these 470 participants were to go back to their respective areas to train another 2820 others techniques and strategies using the newly Revised National Operational Manual as well as the Guidelines for Mentoring and Monitoring Systems.
“The aim is to reminds and develop the skills of the engaged communities' base committees their expected roles and responsibilities especially on the issues of attendance, retention, completion etc in the formal and non-formal schools such as Islamiyya, Tsangaya and ensure the children started, proceeds and complete their education.”
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She further stated that “to this regard another training is ongoing at Manpower Development Institute here in Dutse on Learners Unit Record Information and Tracking System (LURITS).
Abdulkadir maintained that Learners Unit Record Information and Tracking System (LURITS) is a masters training aimed at tracking learners records of enrollment, attendance, performance and completion through attendance register through the head teacher to achieve the control of our of school children.
