The Oyo State Government has inaugurated environmental and social safeguard team to ensure that out-of-school children captured and re-enrolled in the Better Education Service Delivery for All (BESDA) programme are taught in a child-friendly environment without any form of threat.
This was contained in a statement made available to journalists in Ibadan yesterday by the media office of Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board (OYOSUBEB).
Executive Chairman, OYOSUBEB, Dr. Nureni Adeniran, who spoke at a two-day orientation training for the newly-constituted local environmental and social safeguard team in Ibadan, said that part of the team’s priorities under the supervision of the board is to strategise to consolidate on the gains of ongoing BESDA programme in Oyo State.
Adeniran listed some of the priorities of the team to include promotion of children’s rights in the locality, report cases of any form of child abuse in schools, report adults vulnerable to radicalisation and enhance compliance to safeguarding procedures and effective use of Grievance Redress Mechanism boxes, among others.
He said the members selected across the 21 BESDA focus local councils would help to reduce adverse socio-environmental impact that may arise in the implementation of development projects.
He, therefore, reiterated the state government’s commitment to ensuring that out-of-school children in the state are reduced to the barest minimum.
