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Adolescent Girls’ Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) Project To address the challenges of low enrolment, retention, and completion rates among adolescent girls in secondary education, the World Bank introduced the Adolescent Girls’ Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) Project.

Empowering Girls Through Safe Education in Borno

The establishment of safe, inclusive, and conducive learning environments in secondary schools is a crucial step toward building a brighter future for adolescent girls in Borno State. By promoting access to quality education and ensuring the protection of girls, the state is taking a bold step toward social transformation and long-term development.

The Adolescent Girls’ Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) Project is a vital intervention aimed at improving access to and retention in secondary education for adolescent girls in targeted areas across participating states. These include Borno, Ekiti, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, and Plateau.

In Borno State, the AGILE Project is actively working to remove the barriers that hinder girls’ education—such as insecurity, limited infrastructure, and socio-cultural constraints. By creating safe learning spaces and involving communities through sensitization and stakeholder engagement, the project is helping to reduce school dropout rates and support girls to stay in school, learn, and thrive.

Recent News & Updates

Check out our recent news and projects updates.

BASKETBALL GIRLS & BOYS

Wednesday, May 14th at 9:00 am

Kaduna AGILE Project Coordinator Commends Borno Female Basketball Team for Discipline and Commitment

Borno State Government Sensitizes Stakeholders on Second Chance Education

Thursday, 15th May 2025 | Time: 10:00am – 12:00noon

The Borno State Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, through the AGILE Project and in collaboration with Kwarya Kwarya Nig. Ltd, is holding a stakeholder engagement and sensitization meeting with traditional and religious leaders on Component 2.2c (Second Chance Education) for Borno, Dikwa, and Bama Emirates.

What is AGILE all about?

The Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) Project aims to lay the foundation for long-term engagement in adolescent girls’ education and empowerment. The project is a credit from the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) to the Federal Government of Nigeria, for the implementation of the AGILE Project, in selected seven (7) states of the Federation viz; Borno, Ekiti, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi and Plateau.

What are the platforms used by AGILE?

The project uses secondary schools as platforms to empower girls through education, life skills, health education, GBV awareness and prevention, negotiation skills, self-agency, and digital literacy skills. The AGILE interventions in Borno State will reach 550 Junior and Senior Public Secondary Schools across the 23 Local Governments of the State. The project will benefit all adolescents (boys and girls) in these secondary schools.

Is there any opportunity for young married women willing to go back to school?

Yes, the AGILE Project recently introduced a new subcomponent called second chance education. The objective of the subcomponent is to provide out-of-school adolescent girls who may be married/pregnant/young mothers to be part of a safe space-based life skills training covering nutrition/reproductive health. hygiene etc. The girls will also be provided with livelihood skills and reproductive health training using the existing national curriculum for second chance education and the manual developed for life skills training. The training will be provided by facilitators in mass literacy centers to train the girls on these skills and provide relevant resources, tools, and equipment as necessary.