Kano State’s Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) project has increased the annual Conditional Cash Transfer amount given to female students from ₦20,000 to ₦60,000 per beneficiary.
The AGILE project, supported by the World Bank, aims to improve secondary education opportunities for female students, particularly in underserved communities. Moreover, the Kano State AGILE CCT Coordinator, Malam Naziru Surajo, has stated that People living with disabilities (PWDs) are included as beneficiaries of the programme.
Malam Surajo disclosed this at a sensitisation campaign on the CCT initiative, held in Bebeji Local Government Area of the state. According to him, “A total of 45,850 students have so far been enrolled under the initiative in the state. With the inclusion of PWDs, the number has risen to 52,320 across the 19 participating local government areas in the state. Bebeji Local Government is one of the 19 participating local governments in Kano, with 4,984 girls currently benefiting from the programme.”
He, however, stated that since the introduction of the conditional cash transfer, girls’ school enrollment has increased by 31 per cent at both junior and senior secondary levels. He further explained that the cash transfer comes with conditions, including maintaining a minimum school attendance rate of 70 per cent.
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