AEPs models in addressing the OOSC challenge in West Africa: towards achieving basic learning and skills for life

This position paper is developed for the Governments and UN delegations from Ghana, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. It focusses on the out of school challenge in West Africa and the growing learning gap among the rural and urban poor and between low- and high-income earners. It reviews the Out of School challenge in relation to the social and economic impacts for governments and society at large; and reviews the evidence of Accelerated learning programmes to address this challenge given the persistent supply and demand drivers.