The Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment has completed 19 projects aimed at strengthening education for girls in Zamfara.

The AGILE state coordinator, Sa’adatu AbduGusau, disclosed this while presenting a fact sheet for August 2024 to July 2025 in Gusau on Sunday.

AbduGusau noted that although AGILE began operations late in the state, it had achieved significant progress in improving learning quality and enrolment, especially among schoolgirls.

Completed projects include distributing 340,642 learning materials, providing 9,906 three-seater desks, constructing 115 boreholes, renovating 590 classrooms, and building 185 modern toilets across schools.

Additionally, 8,225 adolescent girls benefited from conditional cash transfers, 180 staff members received training on Gender-Based Violence, 38 women’s centres were renovated, and 20 centres were equipped for livelihood skills development.

AGILE also reached 6,260 communities through sensitisation and engagement with leaders, executed 32 media outreach programmes, and generated over 1.4 million cumulative views on online media platforms.

Other achievements include procuring 100 safety kits, training 60 master trainers in life skills, and supporting safe spaces, as well as mentoring 396 mothers across 150 schools.

Through its back-to-school campaign, 571 girls were enrolled in Shabonke, Sabongida, and Rawaya communities. The programme also trained 103 computer teachers in secondary schools.

AGILE distributed 1,100 desktop computers, 50 projectors, and projector boards. It also placed GRM feedback boxes in 174 schools and established 174 eco-clubs.

The initiative further supported Zamfara’s Education Management Information System in conducting the annual school census across the state.

Commissioner for Education, Mallam Wadatau Madawaki, commended AGILE’s impact, describing it as a priority of Governor Dauda Lawal’s administration in advancing education for girls.

The commissioner reiterated AGILE’s remarkable achievements within a short period of operation in the state.

Mr Madawaki stressed that the media remained critical stakeholders in shaping societal attitudes, highlighting successes, and drawing attention to challenges facing girls’ education in Zamfara.

(NAN)