……Governor Inuwa Yahaya,
to establish partners/Donors coordination office with a special Assistant.
The United States Agency for International Development through it education funded project tagged Strengthening Education in Northeast SENSE has stated it resolve to train education managers and primary school teachers. The state team lead of SENSE, Malam Ishiaku Babayo, made this known at a meeting with the state governor. He said “This project aims at developing capacity of primary education managers, use data for informed decisions and improve school system.
“This is in close collaboration with key stakeholders in the primary education system such as Local Education Authority LEA, Ministry of Education, State Universal Basic Education Board, Teachers Service Commission and Teacher Training Institute in the state to train about 100 education managers and 5000 primary school teachers within a 3 year period.
Babayo, also disclosed that the first phase of the project had identified 3 Local Government Areas in the 3 senatorial zones of Gombe state with 6 schools from each of the identified LGAs.
Governor Inuwa Yahaya, reiterated that education remains a top priority of his administration, lauded the initiative by USAID and AUN to support education and good governance. He said “SENSE project intervention in Gombe state is timely, we will ensure that its impact manifests within the targeted period.
“This administration came on board with a mission of change and hope to better the lives of the citizenry through an improved educational system and other socio-economic sectors despite the challenges on ground, hence his disposition towards strengthening partnership with development bodies.
Meanwhile, the governor disclosed the plan to establish Development Partners/ Donor Agencies Coordination Office as part of strategy to engender smooth working relationship between the government and development bodies. “A senior government functionary in the rank of a Special Adviser will be appointed to man the office to guarantee easy access and decision making” he noted.