Nigeria faces a critical challenge with out-of-school children (OOSC), with 2023 estimates indicating that 8.9 million primary school-age children and 3.9 million junior secondary school-age children are not attending school.1 While the majority of OOSC are concentrated in the northeast and northwest, numbers are rising in other regions, including the south.2 Despite long-standing recognition of […]

This School Opening (SO) study is the second report of the Human Development Evaluation Learning and Verification Service (DELVe) Technical Assistance and Research workstream on School Opening and Attendance (SOA) for the Partnership for Learning for All in Nigeria (PLANE) Portfolio programmes, FCDO Nigeria’s flagship education programme. FCDO commissioned this Phase 2 School Opening (SO2) […]

Nigeria faces a learning crisis. Over 10 million primary age children are out of school and of those who are enrolled,as many as 40% do not attend regularly. Teacher shortages, inadequate funding and resourcing, lack of capacityin school monitoring and supervision, as well as leadership challenges compound the profound problem ofequitable access to quality basic […]