The Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) Project aims to lay the foundation for long-term engagement in adolescent girls’ education and empowerment. The project is a credit from the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) to the Federal Government of Nigeria, for the implementation of the AGILE Project.

The financial incentive is paid to parents or caregivers mostly mothers on behalf of the beneficiary.

AGILE is a credit facility from the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank which will be implemented from 2021 to 2025.

Yes, the AGILE Project recently introduced a new subcomponent called second chance education. The objective of the subcomponent is to provide out-of-school adolescent girls who may be married/pregnant/young mothers to be part of a safe space-based life skills training covering nutrition/reproductive health. hygiene etc. The girls will also be provided with livelihood skills and reproductive health training using the existing national curriculum for second chance education and the manual developed for life skills training. The training will be provided by facilitators in mass literacy centers to train the girls on these skills and provide relevant resources, tools, and equipment as necessary.