The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) is set to unveil a new template to address the gaps in the disbursement and access to the Federal Government’s counterpart funding for Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme in the country.
Executive Secretary of the commission, Aisha Garba, who stated this during an interactive workshop with chairmen of State Universal Basic Education Boards (SUBEB) and desk officers across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, said the new template would remove some of the gaps associated with access to the intervention funds by state governments.
The UBEC boss noted that the federal government, through the commission recently had to re-align the delivery of basic education in line with four strategic pillars to ensure increased access and quality education delivery in the states and FCT.
She listed the pillars to include expanding access to UBE, especially for rural and underserved population; enhancing quality of teaching and learning nationwide, strengthening accountability and effective use of basic education finances, and optimising monitoring and institutional system for quality service delivery.
“This necessitated the need to develop new templates that will enable SUBEBs to prepare work plans for accessing the intervention funds in line with the four pillars, as well as implementation of the new hope projects.”
The Deputy Executive Secretary, General Services of the commission, Tunde Ajibulu, in his welcome remarks, said the realignment of the delivery of basic education necessitated the need to come up with new templates for the access of UBE intervention funds.
