The Adolescent Women Initiative for Studying and Empowerment (AGILE), in collaboration with the Ministry for Fundamental and Secondary Training, Niger State, has organised a one-day capacity-building workshop on Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) and Gender-Based mostly Violence (GBV), designed for varsity desk officers.
The workshop was held at Academics Home, Tunga Goro, Minna, and had in attendance 302 college desk officers, representing 151 faculties from seven native authorities areas (LGA) Chanchaga, Bosso, Paikoro, Shiroro, Munya, Rafi and Wushishi.In her keynote tackle, the Coordinator of the Adolescent Women Initiative for Studying and Empowerment (AGILE), Niger State, Hajiya Maimuna Ibrahim Tahir, famous that the workshop was geared toward equipping the contributors with the information, expertise, and instruments essential to successfully handle and reply to grievances and instances of gender-based violence of their respective faculties.
The AGILE boss added, “We consider that by strengthening your capability, we will collectively create a tradition of zero tolerance for gender-based violence and promote a safer and supportive studying surroundings for all.”
Tahir, who spoke by the Deputy Coordinator of AGILE, Salisu Danjuma, promised that the company is dedicated to supporting the varsity desk officers of their essential function and to making sure that faculties throughout the state are free from gender-based violence.
She defined that the workshop was organized in seven cluster native councils concurrently, which embody Minna, Suleja, Bida, Lapai, Lavun, Kontagora and Borgu, respectively.
Tahir maintained that after the workshop, it’s anticipated that the AGILE undertaking will take a peaceable and profitable strategy.
She hinted that AGILE is a World Financial institution-assisted undertaking with some main elements, which embody offering a studying surroundings, fostering an enabling surroundings for women, provision of ICT expertise, provision of scholarships to ladies, system strengthening, undertaking administration, trainer employment, and trainer capability constructing, amongst others, with a purpose to improve the sustainability of the undertaking.
In her remarks, the Commissioner for Fundamental and Secondary Training, Niger State, Dr. Hadiza Asabe Mohammed, expressed delight over the big turnout of the contributors and enjoined them to pay satisfactory consideration through the technical session.
The Commissioner was represented by the Director Common of Faculties Reform, Hajiya Maimuna Mohammed, who stated that as academics, they’re nearer to the varsity youngsters and play an important function within the academic improvement of college youngsters.
Dr. Hadiza assured of her Ministry’s assist for AGILE with a purpose to obtain optimum success in all of the elements of the undertaking geared toward bettering the usual of schooling.
She lauded the State Coordinator and her administration workforce for initiating the capacity-building workshop for academics, saying it will improve their capability to successfully discharge their obligations.
Earlier, the Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Academics (NUT), Comrade Adamu Akayago, disclosed that for many years, the vast majority of faculties within the state have been dilapidated, begging for presidency consideration.He added that Governor Umaru Bago’s administration has labored out all the required modalities to start the rehabilitation of colleges throughout the three senatorial districts of the state.
