Center For Societal Empowerment and Nationalistic Studies (CENSENSS): CENSENSS EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS AND INITIATIVES (CESPI)

CENSENSS is working to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens. We are working to advance equal access to quality education for all Rural Nigerians. Our The Education Support Program will work to make the right to education meaningful by combating inequality and discrimination in education in the rural areas and exposing structural inequalities that reproduce education disadvantage and exclusion.

UNFORTUNATELY

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As Nigerians struggle to tame the psycho-social beast known as corruption, we have particularly beamed the searchlight on the behavior of public officials (civil servants, military and police personnel, elected officials etc.) and former public officials, contractors, business associates of public officials and families of public officials. However, one sector of society that has escaped the penetrating searchlight is education. The educational sector seems to escape critical observation regarding the conduct of educational bureaucrats, administrators of various educational institutions and the faculty. Therefore, the war on corruption cannot be won without making a determined effort to purge the educational sector of the psycho-social beast. It appears that there is a symbiotic relationship between the educational culture and the psycho-social and political culture of the society at large. What happens to society at large affects the educational sector and whatever happens in the educational sector affects the society at large. Those in the educational sector learn and adopt predominant values generated by society at large and the society at large learns and adopts predominant values generated by the educational sector.

WE ARE AWARE THAT....

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Education is the cornerstone of open societies. It lays the groundwork for the future direction of people’s lives and the societies they live in. It is a fundamental human right and essential for the exercise of all other human rights and for social, political, and economic participation.

Most countries have laws requiring children to attend school particularly in the rural areas and constitutional guarantees the right to education. Yet this right is threatened through exclusion, segregation, corruption, weak education policies, and insufficient accountability of governments and education providers. This Education Support Program and Initiative is directed to work in all Rural Communities in Nigeria. This is intended to make the right to education meaningful and seeks to enable and promote through grant-making, advocacy, and programmatic efforts—quality education for all.

WE ARE WORKING TOWARD:

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Identify and amplify compelling, socially just, evidence-based ideas advancing the right to education in the Rural Area;

Support strong Rural Institutions with good governance who can deliver these ideas;

Back social mobilization and strategic litigation to demand accountability among education actors;

Convene education actors, often with divergent views, such as community organizations, unions, international organizations, government ministries, private education providers, and enable an informed and purposeful debate; and

Support and nurture education reform and highlight best practice examples to others in the education field.