Delivering equitable emergency education through an adaptive model in Northeast Nigeria

Session Submission Type: Group Panel

Description of Session

Northeast Nigeria remains a volatile area that is subject to insurgent attacks, heightened corruption, and a growing population of out-of-school children and youth. In this complex and fluid environment, the USAID-funded Education Crisis Response (ECR) program has been implemented in northern Nigeria since 2014 to increase equitable access to quality and relevant non-formal education for some 60,000 internally displaced children and youth ages 6-17. Furthermore, ECR has worked across its five project states with a variety of community and local government stakeholders to strengthen engagement and support of the non-formal learning centers it has established.

The presentations in this panel explore ECR’s flexible, community-centered model, adaptive design and its nine-month accelerated learning programs that target basic literacy, numeracy and social emotional skills for children as well as adolescent youth. Each presenter will discuss a different way in which the program has engaged critically with its surrounding environment to search for solutions and maximize the learning progress of its IDP beneficiaries. The team of experts on this panel will demonstrate how ECR has succeeded in a) addressing the needs of a diverse group of learners, b) adjusting to changing contextual factors over time, and c) reaching out to some of the most vulnerable segments of the population.

Sub Unit

• General Pool

Chair

• Eileen St. George, Creative Associates International

Individual Presentations

• Applying multi-grade teaching techniques to address the learning and psychosocial needs of IDP children and youth - Dalhatu Sulaiman Darazo, Creative Associates International

• The role of feedback loops in adapting and improving project implementation in a conflict setting - Ayo Oladini, Creative Associates International

• Increasing girls’ access to education where it is needed most - Helen John, Creative Associates International

Discussant

• Jake Thomsen, Creative Associates International