Bridging the Divide: How Southwest Nigeria is reshaping non-state education through policy reforms.
In classrooms across Nigeria's Southwest region, millions of children attend schools that exist in a regulatory grey zone, neither fully recognized nor adequately supported by government systems. Non-state schools, ranging from elite international academies to low-fee community schools in informal settlements now educate nearly one-third of Nigerian children. Data shows…
About DAWN Commission
The DAWN Commission is the dedicated technocratic institution for the sustainable development of the Southwest Region. DAWN Commission, was set up by the Governments of the Southwest States of Nigeria as the institutional and programme management body to midwife their Regional Integration Agenda. It is therefore the dedicated coordinating agency, fully empowered by the Governments to ensure the delivery of the composite development aspirations of the Region, as expressed in what has been generally adopted and known as the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN).
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