FROM RABILU ABUBAKAR, GOMBE
Gombe State Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment, AGILE, Project has concluded its three-day workshop on enhancing adolescent girls education and empowerment.
The first workshop centered on reviewing and adapting the manual life skills to align with Gombe State’s cultural and social norms.
Key stakeholders, including religious leaders, traditional rulers, civil society organisations and non-governmental organisations, collaborated to ensure that the manual reflects the state’s diverse realities.
Speaking at the closing ceremony, the State Project Coordinator, Dr Amina Abdul expressed gratitude to participants for their contributions.
She assured stakeholders that all areas flagged as inconsistent with local values would be revised, with the updated manual shared for further input before implementation.
“The life skills programme will serve as a critical tool in protecting adolescent girls as they grow into adulthood, particularly in mitigating Gender-Based Violence,” Dr Abdul stated.
She encouraged trainers to remain proactive, emphasising the project’s systematic approach to achieve its objectives.
She announced plans for step-down training sessions to extend digital literacy knowledge to adolescent girls in public schools across the state.
The life skills workshop was organised in partnership with Guidance and Counseling Development Association, GCDA.
In a similar development, the AGILE Project concluded a digital literacy training workshop for master trainers at the Federal College of Education (Technical), Gombe.
Acknowledging the efforts of Lexington Technologies and other facilitators for their dedication to the programme, the Digital Literacy Component Lead, Usman Ibrahim reiterated AGILE’s commitment to equip adolescent girls with essential digital skills to prepare them for a technology-driven future.
Participants at both workshops thoroughly reviewed and refined training modules, ensuring that they address key concerns raised during the sessions.
