Liberating Students Through Locally Led Efforts to Improve Early Grade Reading - Lessons from Nigeria - Policies

• In Event: Liberating Students Through Locally Led Efforts to Improve Early Grade Reading - Lessons from Nigeria

Proposal

In May 2023 the Minister of Education formally launched the National Reading Framework (NRF). The framework is the culmination of years of collaboration between the Ministry, USAID and its implementing partners. The framework is aligned to the Global Proficiency Framework for Reading towards achieving and ensuring that Nigerian pupils are assessed using the same standards as their counterparts from around the world. It also outlines a series of commitments to improving reading systems through enhanced, policy, guidance, practice and oversight. The Learn to Read activity has been working with the federal institutions to co-create a practical and realistic actions plans that can help deliver on these policy commitments. Given that policy commitments often cut across different federal institutions (inter agency), a NRF Coordination Committee has been constituted to help facilitate greater partnership and understanding across these institutions. Alongside supporting planning to deliver on the commitments, the Learn to Read team is facilitating a co-creation process for the development of implementation monitoring processes, to ensure federal institutions can track progress, provide more targeted support and seek accountability from states for more effective EGR education service delivery. Learn to Read is also working with UBEC to develop innovative, results-based incentives within the domestic financing landscape to encourage progress against target commitments. We will consider how these policies are empowering actors in the system, with presentation of early gains.

Author

• Leesa Kaplan, Creative Associates International