AGILE Trains 76 Education Officers On Data Collection, Reporting

The Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) project has trained 76 Education Management Information System (EMIS) officers on quality data collection and reporting.

The monitoring and evaluation officer of the project, Hilda Yabai, during the training in Kaduna yesterday said that the measure was to ensure value for money in the delivery of the AGILE project.

Yabai explained that the participants comprised of three EMIS officers each from the 23 local government areas of the state, four from the Ministry of Education and three from the State Universal Basic Education Board.

She said that accurate and quality data was very critical for decision making during implementation of the project, stressing that without accurate data, the project officers would make faulty decisions.

“AGILE wants to ensure that all its activities create safe and accessible learning spaces for girls and ensure that the girls are happy and stay in school until they graduate secondary school.

“The project wants to know how many girls transit from primary six to junior secondary schools and how many girls eventually graduate from secondary school,” she said.

The World Bank Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) lead for the AGILE project, Mr Adebayo Solomon, stressed that collecting accurate, consistent, reliable, timely and complete data was critical to the success of the project.

Solomon explained that the project has some set of indicators that represent the lifeline of the project, adding that the project would not make progress without achieving the indicators.