Expanding Access of Early Childhood Education to the Islamic, Qur’anic and Tsangaya Education (IQTE) Sector in Northern Nigeria

Expanding Access of Early Childhood Education to the Islamic, Qur’anic and Tsangaya Education (IQTE) Sector in Northern Nigeria – World Bank (2018)

Nigeria Partnership for Education Project (NIPEP) partnered with the World Bank to improve access and quality of early childhood education (ECE) in 5 states located in North-West Nigeria, specifically Katsina, Kano, Sokoto, Jigawa and Kaduna. We conducted the baseline survey for this project in Kano State. The components of the survey implemented were: (a) GPS mapping of 1,082 existing Islamiyya and Tsangayya schools in the Kumbotso and Fagge Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Kano State; (b) administration of the ‘systems approach for better education results- engaging the private sector (SABER-EPS)’ provider survey to 190 randomly selected schools captured from the GPS mapping; and (c) administration of the ‘measuring early learning and quality outcomes (MELQO)’ tool to 80 randomly selected subset of the schools sampled for the SABER-EPS provider survey.