The Federal Government has adopted Kaduna State’s household mapping model as the national framework for identifying out-of-school children, marking a major shift from estimate-based planning to data-driven interventions aimed at returning millions of children to classrooms across Nigeria.
The decision was announced on Thursday by the Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, following a meeting with Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani, according to a statement issued by the minister’s Special Adviser on Media and Communications, Ikharo Attah.
Under the new approach, the Federal Ministry of Education, in collaboration with the National Bureau of Statistics, will conduct a nationwide household mapping exercise across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory to determine the exact number of out-of-school children, where they live and the households they belong to.
The ministry said the exercise would replace the long-standing reliance on broad estimates with verified household-level data, enabling governments to design targeted interventions
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