JRS and the Centre for Advocacy, Transparency and Accountability Initiatives (CATAI) are pleased to announce that on 18 September 2025, they hosted the launch event of a new EU-funded project dedicated to enhancing and consolidating access to safe and quality education for vulnerable, conflict-affected children in Borno State, Nigeria.

This two-year project will be implemented in the hard-to-reach Local Government Areas of Dikwa, Monguno, and Ngala, where the impact of prolonged conflict has severely disrupted educational opportunities.

It builds upon a previous intervention and is set to reach 56,119 school-age children between the ages of 6 and 17—including 29,860 girls and 26,259 boys. The project is directed towards internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees, and children from host communities, with particular attention to girls and children with disabilities. Of these, 27,298 children have already benefitted from activities implemented under the previous phase.

In addition to expanding access, the project places particular emphasis on improving the quality of education through teacher training initiatives and targeted support to schools and caregivers to ensure long-term sustainability.

“I remember the remarkable testimonies we heard from the stakeholders during the close-out meeting of the last project. Through the benefaction of the European Union, the current project not only builds on the successes of the previous one, but it also deepens, consolidates and expands on it. In addition to Dikwa and Mongono, this current project will also expand to a new local government area – Ngala, which is currently experiencing a scarcity of humanitarian actors in the face of a deepening education emergency”, said Fr. Temple Anuforo, Country Director of JRS Nigeria.

To ensure the success and sustainability of the project, JRS will work in close collaboration with local partners, government authorities, and community stakeholders.

JRS has been present in Nigeria since 2018. The organisation accompanies, serves, and advocates for forcibly displaced people and local communities by improving access to quality education, health services, socio-economic training, and psychosocial support.