Author : Ajayi, isiaka gbenga and awodiji, omotayo adewale
Keyword : Educational needs, internally displaced persons, sustainable development, school-age, camps
Subject : Social sciences
Article Type : Original article (research)
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Abstract : Forceful displacement of people has badly affected educational sector most especially in the North-East, Nigeria. The educational needs of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are being neglected on a large scale whereas, education is said to be both a goal in itself and a means for attaining all the other Sustainable Development Goals. This paper therefore examined how the educational needs of school-age children in the IDPs’ camps can be managed for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the disaster area of Nigeria. Descriptive research design of survey type was adopted for this study. The study population comprised all IDPs (school-age of primary and secondary schools) and staff of governmental and non-governmental management agencies. The study used proportional stratified sampling technique with the help of Taro Yamane sample size formula to select 9 staff of State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), 10 staff of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), 12 staff UNICEF, 88 school age IDPs, and 6 Nigerian Army education staff. An adapted Questionnaire titled “Intervention Programmes for Meeting Educational Needs Questionnaire (IPMENQ) and checklist on educational materials and emergency teachers (CEMET) were used. Actual response rate was 92% from IDPs camps from three states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe. The data was transcribed and analyzed thematically by mean rating, frequencies and percentages. Findings revealed that library services, trained teachers and other educational materials for the IDPs were highly needed thus, intervention programmes were not adequately available at 62.9% while provisions of teachers, pre-primary, primary and secondary school education were highly inadequate at 71.1%, 69.0%, 56.9% and 71.5% respectively among others. The way forward among others is that the UN guiding principle 23 stating education as a right which must be free, compulsory and accessible with training facilities for the IDPs should be carried out, the ministry o
Article by : Omotayo Adewale AWODIJI
Article add date : 2020-12-16
How to cite : Ajayi, isiaka gbenga and awodiji, omotayo adewale. (2020-December-16). Managing educational needs of internally displaced persons for sustainable development in nigeria: the way forward. retrieved from https://www.openacessjournal.com/abstract/500