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14/05/2026
Education financing shapes who gets to learn. When budgets fail to account for the specific barriers girls face, exclusion is not accidental. It becomes embedded within the system long before a girl ever reaches the classroom door.
Gender-Responsive Education Budgeting is the shift that begins to change this. It ensures that financing decisions are made with a deliberate understanding of the realities girls in underserved communities navigate every day.
This matters because a budget that does not see a girl’s reality cannot fund a solution to it. Safe sanitation, trained teachers, community engagement, and policy accountability are not secondary priorities. They are part of the foundation that determines whether a girl enrolls, stays in school, and is able to learn.
Too often, however, these decisions are made without the data, community voices, or lived experiences of the girls most affected. The gap between policy intention and budget reality remains wide, and girls continue to bear the cost of that disconnect.
Through the Getting Girls Equal initiative, AREAi is working with the Oyo State Government in Nigeria to help close that gap by embedding gender responsiveness into how education is financed, monitored, and held accountable at the systems level.
This work focuses across three critical fronts: advocating for financing that reflects girls’ realities, strengthening accountability in how education resources are allocated, and ensuring budget decisions reach the communities where girls need them most.
Because what gets funded gets done. And a budget that finally sees girls is a budget that expands what is possible for them.
Learn more at www.areai4africa.org
When a senior colleague says, “use your head” and you take it very literally… 😭
Next thing, you’re nodding aggressively at your laptop, tapping your forehead like ideas will drop, even lightly “headbutting” the problem like it’s the solution.
Your teammates are explaining logic, and you’re there like, “don’t worry, I’m applying my head already.” 🤦🏽♂️😂
Turns out… they meant “think”, not “demonstrate”.
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07/05/2026
Consistency in the small things often leads to the biggest shifts in the classroom.
Across the FoundaMENTA Community of Practice, teachers are showing up, learning, engaging, and translating new insights into their everyday teaching.
Today, we celebrate Rakiya Musa Waziri, a teacher at Army Children School New Cantonment ‘B’ Kaduna, as our FoundaMENTA Teacher of the Month for April.
Her consistent presence, active participation, and clear effort to apply community learnings within her classroom reflect what this work is about, not just access to knowledge, but the commitment to use it.
She represents what becomes possible when teachers are supported and choose to grow.
Join us in celebrating her impact.
Why Digital Skills Accelerator (DSA) and what makes it different?
The digital gender gap is no longer a future problem , it is already shaping who gets access to opportunity and who is left behind.
In this episode of , we explore the rationale behind the Digital Skills Accelerator for Women and Girls, and the thinking that shaped its design.
DSA is a deliberately structured programme, tailored to the realities of girls and young women. It goes beyond basic exposure to technology, offering a progressive learning pathway that meets them at their current level and supports them toward meaningful digital competence.
Watch Episode 1 to understand the foundation of the program and the approach guiding its implementation.
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