Lagos Eko Secondary Education Project

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The objective of the Lagos Eko Secondary Education Project for Nigeria is to improve the quality of public junior and senior secondary education in Lagos state. There are four components to the project, the first being promoting secondary school effectiveness through school development grants. The objective of the school development grants is to raise education outcomes in junior and senior secondary education by providing public secondary schools in Lagos access to yearly discretionary resources with an explicit focus on improving the quality of education services as priority needs are defined at the school level. The second component is the enhancing quality assurance for junior and senior secondary schools. The objective of this component is to establish a standardized system for measuring student's learning achievements in core subject areas and support teachers to develop the skills needed to better teach these areas. The third component is the project coordination and management. This component will provide the necessary resources for effective coordination and monitoring and evaluation, and the implementation of an information and communications strategy. Finally, the fourth component is the strengthening of the federal post-basic education strategy. The objective of this component is to provide capacity building and technical assistance to the federal ministry of education to enhance the development of the national post-basic education strategy and support policy dialogue on the strategy with states.