An Examination of Safe School Initiative Programme Implementation in Nigeria
Keywords:
Safe School Initiative Programme, ImplementationAbstract
The paper examined the challenges militating against Safe School Initiative Programme implementation in Nigeria. Employing secondary data that were collected from online and print publications, the paper established that funding problem, insecurity, corruption, poor stakeholders participation and poor monitoring and evaluation system are some of the challenges militating against Safe School Initiative Programme implementation in Nigeria. Based on this finding, the paper recommends that the Federal government should increase the funding of Safe School Initiative Programme implementation in Nigeria. The Safe School Initiative Programme implementation policy and documents should be reform to specify the unique roles of the Federal government, State government and Local government in the implementation process. Technological resources should be deploy to monitor financial resources allocated for the Safe School Initiative Programme implementation in Nigeria. The Federal, state and local government should participate the local and religious institutions for effective implementation. Government should curtain the insecurities problems in Nigeria by investing more in security apparatus of the country to support smooth Safe School Initiative Programme implementation in Nigeria.
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