AFRYDEF

Building Capacities for the Effective Management of Secondary Schools in Imo State, Nigeria.

With the support of the Imo State Secondary Education Management Board, the African Youth Development Foundation (AFRYDEF) embarked on a study on building the capacities of secondary school administrators for the effective management of Imo State Secondary Schools between December, 2001 and June, 2002 and thereafter implemented a 2-day training program for three hundred and seven (307) principals and nineteen (19) Directors and Administrators of the Secondary Education Management Board in Imo State, Nigeria.

Among others, the objectives of the project were:

• To x-ray the failures of past teaching styles and management approaches in the secondary schools in the state.

• To introduce the participants to newly developed techniques of managing students and public offices.

• To identify problem areas and develop new strategies and action plans that will improve teaching styles, public sector management, counseling, etc.

• To equip participants with practical problem-solving and conflict mitigation skills as ways of controlling and preventing crime and violence amongst students.

Resource persons drawn from the universities and the civil society engaged to do justice to the project objectives were:

Barr. Uche W. Durueke,
Prof. Sabbas Asoegwu,
Mazi Gibson Okoroafor, and
Mr. Njoku, C.N