July 26, (THEWILL) – The National Bureau of Statistics is collaborating with its partners to verify selected basic educational institutions in Nigeria.
The collaborating partners are the Federal Ministry of Education, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), and Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning.
The verification is under the Better Education Service for All, BESDA.
BESDA is a program-for Result, funded by the World Bank, to support increase in access to basic education.
This is through increase in equitable access for Out-Of-School Children (OOSC), improve literacy and strengthen accountability for results in basic education in Nigeria.
A statement made available to TheWILL in Calabar, by Ichedi Sunday Joel of the NBS, said as an Independent Verification Agency (IVA), NBS will be visiting selected schools across the nation to verify the authenticity of records kept by implementing schools at state level.
He said they will also provide data for the assessment of four (4) Disbursement Linked Indicators (DLIs), on which states will be rewarded.
He explained that this particular exercise is the 2nd Phase and shall be conducted in 17 BESDA Focus States.
He listed the states to include all the States in the North East, North West, Niger State in the North Central, Oyo State in the South West, Ebonyi state in the South East and Rivers in the South-South.
The BESDA Verification Exercise will Kickstart with the 4-day Training of Trainers (TOTs) in Abuja from 26th to 29th of July, 2022.
This will be followed by Training of Enumerators (TOEs) from 1st to 5th of August, 2022 in the 17 BESDA Focus States.
The trained Enumerators, who are also referred to as NBS verification agents, will be deployed across various states in the country to collect data for the purpose of the verification exercise.
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