The impact of monitoring in institution building in Nigeria: Analysis of basic education delivery in Nigeria

The study examines the impacts of monitoring in the development of Universal Basic Education (UBE) in Nigeria.There is need for proper monitoring of funds disbursed to the State Universal Basic Education Boards as well as Local Government Education Authority for the success of UBE.Data were collecte...

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Main Authors: Abdullahi, Danjuma, Abdullah, Siti Alida John
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/13118/1/47.pdf
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Summary:The study examines the impacts of monitoring in the development of Universal Basic Education (UBE) in Nigeria.There is need for proper monitoring of funds disbursed to the State Universal Basic Education Boards as well as Local Government Education Authority for the success of UBE.Data were collected through in-depth interviews with 15 respondents ranging from school administrators, Parent Teachers Association, Nongovernmental organizations and Nigerian union of teachers. Secondary data were source from the journals, text books and newspapers.The findings revealed that the commission is given powers to audit and examine the financial records of the SUBEBs by checking their receipts and expenditure of the accessed FGN-UBE intervention but it seem that the program is living a lot of issues untouched leading to corruption, mismanagement of funds as well under utilization of UBE. The paper suggests proper monitoring of funds allocated to the commission as well as commitment of government toward realization of education for all by the year 2015.