Following the increase of gender-based violence and other inhuman acts that affect persons of a particular gender and other environmental issues, Anambra State Universal Basic Education Board, ASUBEB, in collaboration with Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, has organized a one-day training workshop for Desk Officers of Guidance Counsellors of twenty-one Local Government Education Authorities, Zonal Directors and other Education Officers on the use of Code of Conduct as regards gender-based violence, sexual exploitations in school environment.
Declaring the workshop open, the Executive Chairman of ASUBEB, Dr Vera Nwadinobi, said the training, which is the brainchild of World Bank Assisted programme and UBEC in collaboration with the State Universal Basic Education Boards across the country, is in the quest to achieve Better Education Service Delivery for All, BESDA.
She said that in Anambra, they are glad that World Bank and UBEC have keyed into the programme because the state government under the leadership of Governor Chukwuma Soludo is passionate about ensuring quality education in a safe and conducive environment in order to train individuals who are academically sound and morally balanced for meaningful contributions to the society.
Dr. Nwadinobi therefore encouraged all the Guidance Counsellors and other Education Officers to listen attentively to the resource persons and also step down the training to all the teachers in their areas to make sure that emotional abuse, bullying and all the menace associated with gender-based violence and sexual abuse, especially to the girl child, are put to a stop in various schools.
Paper presentations by the resource persons, Dr. Martina Nwawube and Mrs Ifeyinwa Anatune, formed the highlights of the workshop.
The Board Secretary, Mrs Loveline Mgbemena, Director Quality Assurance, Lady Stella Ezepue, and the State Coordinator, UBEC, Anambra State Office, Mr. Kingsley Nlewedim, were present at the event.
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