efforts have started yielding results in the area of girl child enrollments into schools. 3.7.6 Already, Federal Government Girls Colleges exist in the 36 States of the Federation and the present Administration has committed reasonable resources in equipping them. The Federal and State Governments also offer scholarships to female students in order to encourage their education. Also, the Federal Government is specially reorganizing the Federal Scholarship Board and Students Loans Board to equip them with gender mainstreaming guidelines. 3.7.7 Other efforts of government and other agencies towards promotion of women’s rights and empowerment include: the establishment of Girls education project (GED) - a joint effort of the Federal and State Governments supported by the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and Department for International Development (DFID) to encourage Girl-Child education. These efforts have increased Girl-Child school enrollment to a significant level and about 20 States of the Federation are now involved in the project; launching of State Chapters of the Nigerian Girls Education Initiative in the Northern States of the country in order to address the dearth of female teachers in the region; and budgetary allocation to the ministry of education has been on the increase and the present Minister of Education is a woman. She serves as a model to encourage female education initiatives. 46