The Reading and Numeracy Activity (RANA)

  • P Project/Program

I Inactive

Key Information

This project aims to improve the quality of literacy and numeracy instruction for girls and boys in primary grades 1–3 in approximately 200 schools in the two states. These schools and states form a subset of UNICEF’s Girls’ Education Project Phase 3 (GEP3), the impact of which RANA expects to enhance by using gender-sensitive methodologies in four major components of the education system: teacher professional development, teaching and learning materials, involved communities and sustainable government ownership.

Using its Hausa-based early grade reading approach, which integrates numeracy and gender themes into its materials, RANA will build the capacity of 600 teachers to implement effective instruction and assessments. The project will engage local communities to build support for early grade reading and engage in policy dialogue and capacity building with the government to build local ownership and assist both state governments in identifying strategies for pilot scale-up. Through RANA’s integrated literacy and numeracy approach, and its commitment to collaboration with local stakeholders, the project will support a scalable, improved system for early grade reading and numeracy across Katsina and Zamfara.


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Nigeria

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2015 - 2020

Partner(s)

Nigeria’s Ministry of Education, Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative and the Federation of Muslim Women’s Associations in Nigeria (FOMWAN)

Ministry Affiliation

Nigeria Ministry of Education

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting areas

Not applicable or unknown


Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys in school, Girls in school, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary

Other populations reached

  • Community leaders
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • General awareness-raising/community engagement

Curriculum/learning

  • Gender-sensitive curricula

Policy/legal environment

  • Advocating changes to existing laws/policies

School-related gender-based violence

  • Training of school personnel (including teachers)

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – pedagogy general
  • Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)

Cross-cutting goals

Not applicable or unknown