NEWS: Adamawa State Participates in USAID Organized Workshop on Education

By Catherine Philip Jelani

The United State Agency for International Development USAID organized a 4- day Field Training Workshop on Education and Crisis and Conflict Network (ECCN) in Abuja, Nigeria.  The programme is aim at assisting the affected states in the North eastern parts of the country to adjust from the crisis that happened at their localities. These states which includes; Adamawa, Bauchi , Gombe and Yobe. The purpose of the workshop is to improve participants’ knowledge about; use of and, collaboration around initial and on-going analysis for Education Programming in Conflict affected environments. Adamawa state delegation was led by officials of the State Universal Basic Education Board ADSUBEB.

The expected outcomes of the workshop however includes the following; identification of the purpose and components of conflict analysis for education programming, identification of the purpose and components of strong school and community level progress indicators for education programming in conflict affected areas, articulation of why feedback loops are Important for quality programme design and management of what the critical elements of feedback loops are, how a feedback loop would work from the perspective of their Organization,   identification of next steps for each of the organization’s implementing education programming and articulation of how this field workshop and it’s particular learning outcomes relates to the broader work of USAID ECCN and finally, identification of suggestion on how to improve  the  workshop methodology for future use.

The Invited USAID ECCN Nigerian field workshop participant includes;

·       ECCN website ECCNETWORK net

·        Federal level

·       State level

1.     Bauchi

2.     Adamawa

3.     Gombe

·     COMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVES

1.     Adamawa

2.     Bauchi

3.     Gombe

·   State NGOs coordinators

1.     Adamawa

2.     Bauchi

3.     Gombe

·       Local NGO Representations

1.     FOMWAN

2.     CSACEFA etc.

·       UNICEF        

1.     CRS  Program manager 

2.     Voice of America etc.