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Nigeria adopts Kaduna out‑of‑school mapping model
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Nigeria adopts Kaduna State out-of-school children initiative out‑of‑school mapping model
In late July 2026, the 2026 Kaduna State government released its 2025/2026 school census, revealing that a school‑age census identifying 187,719 out‑of‑school children were out of school, primarily due to poverty. The data, gathered from 363,319 households across all 23 local government areas, is intended to guide the construction of new schools, deployment of teachers, and targeted community interventions. The state allocated 25 % of its 2026 budget to education, introduced a digitised Education Management Information System, and pledged support for neighboring states to conduct similar mapping exercises. A few days later, Kaduna officials announced the rollout of launched the Reaching Out‑of‑School Children (ROOSC) project, aiming project to reintegrate roughly 100,000 out‑of‑school children into classrooms. Development partners—including Save the Children, the Kuwait Fund, Qatar Fund for Development, the Islamic pupils. Development Bank, and the Global Partnership partners pledged funding for Education—will fund school construction, teacher training, community mobilisation, child‑protection measures mobilisation and inclusive‑education initiatives. Concurrently, the child‑protection measures, while a state‑funded School Feeding Programme feeding programme began providing free nutritious meals to students in public boarding schools, removing feeding costs for families schools. A week later, Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Education announced that it will roll out the Kaduna household‑mapping approach across all 36 states and supporting the Federal Capital Territory. Minister Dr Maruf Olatunji Alausa said the new data‑driven system replaces broad estimates, reducing the national out‑of‑school figure from an estimated 585,000 to under 200,000 in the pilot, and will enable precise targeting of interventions, better health resource allocation and learning outcomes. improved monitoring of progress toward universal enrolment.
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- 2026-07-30 23:28 UTC Nigeria adopts Kaduna out‑of‑school mapping model
- 2026-07-28 15:22 UTC Kaduna State out-of-school children initiative
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