By Ian MacAuslan, EDOREN Workstreams 1 and 5 Leader The role of the private sector in providing education in Nigeria cannot be ignored: in Lagos, a city of 20 million, nearly three in four school-going primary children are in private school. And this is not limited to the rich: three in five school-going children from…

By Ian MacAuslan, EDOREN Workstreams 1 and 5 Leader How do you educate a billion people? This is the challenge – and the opportunity – facing Nigeria’s leaders today. The scale is enormous. By the year 2100 the population of Nigeria will be 914 million, according to the UN’s latest population projections, more than anywhere…

By Allan Findlay The EDOREN project works closely with a number of other DfID projects to share best practice and data for the benefit of all. One example of this was working with the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) project supported by SPARC – DfID’s programme for State Partnership for Accountability, Responsiveness and Capability. The MDG…