In its efforts to promote effective teaching and learning in the implementation of the Second Chance Education programme under the EU-UN Spotlight Initiative to end violence against women and girls in Cross River State, the Education Today for Sustainable Development Initiative (ETSDI), with the support of UNESCO Abuja, has distributed four thousand (4,000) copies of Spotlight Initiative branded exercise books and pens to learners in Obanliku and Obubra Local Government Areas of Cross River State.
Furthermore, Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Life Skills Facilitator’s Guide, Numeracy and Literacy Primers, NMEC Attendance Registers and Non-formal Education Curriculum were distributed to facilitators to enable them to effectively deliver lessons.
This programme is part of the second phase of the EU-UN Spotlight Initiative activity in Cross River State, with the aim of providing accelerated second-chance education opportunities to 2000 out-of-school girls and young women facing intersecting marginalization: living with HIV, disability, victims of EUP, child marriage, GBV and rural poor and mainstream them back to formal school; provide livelihood skills to 50 women and girls in Cross River State.
Earlier, the Cross River State Agency for Adult and Non-formal Education and the Ministry of Women Affairs embarked on a field monitoring and evaluation of learning centres in twenty communities in the two LGAs to ascertain the state of the delivery of the lessons by the trained facilitators.
UNESCO in collaboration with Mass Education and Ministry of Women’s Affairs has also flagged off skills acquisition training programme targeting 50 women and girls in the state.
