About ESSPIN
ESSPIN's purpose is to improve the planning, financing and delivery of basic education so as to improve access, equity and quality. It is a six year programme with a budget of over GBP100 million. It is funded by UK's Department For International Development(DFID).It will work with the Nigerian Federal Government and up to seven state Governments.
ESSPIN will build on the work of DFID's Capacity for Universal Basic Education programme, learn from the DFID-funded Girls Education Project and work closely with the World Bank's State Education Sector Project.
ESSPIN works with both the government and civil society to improve the capacity to reform the education services and develop best practice solutions to be delivered in schools. ESSPIN operates at four levels: federal, state, community and school. The diagram below shows how this will work:
Our key aims are to ensure the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals:
Every child in Nigeria is given the opportunity to receive a basic standard of education and gender equity in access to basic education services by 2015.
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Nigeria profile
Population:
144.7 million[1]
Average life expectancy:
46.8 years (WB, 2006). UK: 78 years[2]
Average per capita income:
US$843[3] UK: US$33,800[4]
Percentage of people with access to safe, clean water:
48%[5]
Percentage of children receiving primary school education:
60-80% (estimate)[6]
Information taken from DFID website. [1] World Bank (WB), 2006, [2] UN Statistics Division (UNSD), 2007, [3] International Monetary Fund (IMF), 2006, [4] Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) (World Development Indicators (WDI), 2007, [5] UNICEF, 2004, [6] UNESCO/EFA, 2008.