and distance education; special education; educational services; planning, administration and supervision of education; financing education. 3. Initiatives and Achievements in Promoting the Right to Education: - (2014-2017) i. The Final Report on Implementation of the Revitalizing Adult and Youth Literacy (RAYL) programme presented to the Federal Minister of Education on December 6, 2016, indicated that out of a total 5,101,719 (5.1 million) learners enrolled in the programme between 2013 and 2015 in 146 focused local governments, 4.5 million (4,589,637) of them have been made literate, and 4,807 facilitators were also graduated. A total of $6.4 million dollars was made available for the project by the MDG-Presidency, aimed at reducing illiteracy level in Nigeria and building a critical mass of educators for literacy and life skills acquisition.  The ultimate beneficiaries of the project are young girls and women, youth and out-ofschool children, excluded or marginalized from the formal education system.  Other achievements during this period include, the establishment and equipping of Community Learning Centres in 13 States, Publications on Adult and Non-Formal Education, Capacity building for NMEC Staff and establishment of Non-formal education management System NMEC.  The challenges encountered in executing the programme included lack of commitment by states to utilize the trained facilitators, poor conditions of service for Non-Formal Educators and Boko Haram Insurgency in the North-East. ii. A twin-partnership project between the Federal Ministry of Education and the World Bank, known as the State Education Programme Investment Project (SEPIP) and the Nigerian Partnership for Education Project (NIPEP), have made remarkable progress in education delivery, by addressing the out-of-school children challenge and low education quality arising from difficulty in teacher deployment to critical ares. The Minister of Education reported that, SEPIP is operational in three states namely: - Anambra, Bauchi and Ekiti with the sole objective of improving school performance through teacher availability in core subject of mathematics, English and the Sciences. Participating states have used the grants from Development partners to introduce special incentives for teachers posted to schools that are ‘hard to staff’. On the other hand, the issue of out of school children, especially girls was also being addressed in the five NIPEP states: - Kano, Katsina, Sokoto, Kaduna and Jigawa through the provision of scholarships for girls and female teachers. A total of 1,528 female teachers in Kaduna, Sokoto and Jigawa and 935 female teachers in Katsina and Kano have at separate periods received scholarships to pursue National Certificate Education (NCE) Programmes. The idea of the above scholarship is to create models for female pupils in the communities. This has led to considerable improvement in the external examination in the participating states. 88