By: Patience Olumati
The Universal Basic Education Commission on Tuesday is to unveil a new template to address the gaps in the disbursement and access to the Federal Government counterpart funding for Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme in the country.
The Executive Secretary of the Commission, Hajia Aisha Garba, made this known in Abuja during an interactive workshop with Chairmen of State Universal Basic Education Boards and Desk officers from 36 States of the Federation and the FCT.
According to the Hajia Aisha, the new template being subjected to further scrutiny and validation at the workshop would address any hindrance associated with access to the intervention funds by the State Governments, which often lead to billions of un-accessed funds.
The Executive Secretary explained that the Commission recently had to re-align the delivery of basic education in line with four strategic pillars to ensure increased access and quality education delivery in States and FCT.
“She said “The pillars are:” Expanding access to UBE especially for rural and underserved population; Enhancing Quality of teaching and learning nationwide; Strengthening accountability and effective use of basic education finances and Optimizing monitoring and institutional system for quality service delivery.”
“Accordingly, the Hope Education Project of the present administration is a performance for Reward project for States that apply their resources for education judiciously, especially in achieving the four pillars.
“Consequently, this has necessitated the need to develop new templates that will enable SUBEBs to prepare work plans for accessing the UBE Intervention Funds in line with the four pillars as well as implementation of the New Hope Projects.”
The Deputy Executive Secretary, General Services of the Commission, Tunde Ajibulu said the interactive workshop on the new template was apt, and urged the participants who are implementers of Basic Education in their states, to contribute positively and come up with workable templates.
