Social Innovation Plan for Female Education in Nigeria

Running Head: Social Innovation and Enterprise
Social Innovation and
Enterprise
Essay
System04104
4/28/2019

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Social Innovation Plan for Female Education in Nigeria
Education is an important part of human life that builds human capital for any nation.
Education plays a vital role in human development. Education not only widens the thinking
of people rather it also helps in raising the living standard of people. The present work is
based on the human centred design plan and different tools used to present some innovative
ideas for Nigerian government to improve the female education in the country. Nigeria is
facing a huge difference between male and female education in both primary and higher-level
education. The difference between the enrolment of girls and boys education in the country is
a major problem for the Nigerian government and for its education system. This paper
includes various tools of human centred design approach that how the social innovative plan
can be implemented and the problem of poor female education in the country can be solved.
However, the Nigerian government take several steps to overcome this issue but still much
work has to be done in the country to raises the women education standard in the country.
The poverty of people and traditional thinking of society forces the women for domestic
engagements in the house and play a sizeable reproductive role in society. These are the
major reasons why women did not receive significant attention from both government and
society, which led to women been second-class in society. The gender inequality and poor
thinking of society have affected the female education level in Nigeria. As a result, males
dominated over women from primary education level to higher education level.
Problem of Gender Inequality
One of the major problems in Female education in Nigeria is ‘gender inequality’ that
further causes problems for both education and employment opportunities for females. The
gender inequality in society reduces the opportunities for girls and women to participate in
social development and getting education for their own development. It has been seen that
there is limited access to girls in primary education, which is a major problem in the Nigerian
education system. This problem negatively affects the social, economic, and political aspects
of their lives.

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Tool used to solve the problem: Human Centred Design
To Encounter this problem, a human-centred design tool is required for this social
innovation plan depending on the resources and process available to the Nigerian government
to take corrective action to eliminate education barriers in the society.
Mindset and Inspiration
Nigeria is facing problems related to poverty, low level of education, high level of
gender discrimination, and still facing problems with traditional stereotype thinking of
people. Girls face many challenges as they try to access education at both primary and higher
level, for example, low family income, poor economic condition, and living in rural areas
where resources are not available for even living a good life. These problems can be treated
as the barriers between education and social development of the country. Poverty is one of
the major causes of illiteracy and unemployment in women and young girls.
Changing the Mindset of Society: Various studies found that the literacy rate in girls
is directly linked with the social, religious, and tradition misconceptions of people. People
think that girls cannot access education in that same ways, as boys do. Therefore, changing
the mindset of people is most necessary step to resolve the issue of girl education. People live
in Nigeria with a very traditional biased view about girls. Child marriage is also a critical
challenge in Nigeria because child bribes are much more likely to drop out of schools or even
they not attend the school in entire life. It not only affects the health of girl child rather it also
affects their ability to work or receiving education adult age. The misconception of people is
a major obstacle in Nigeria girl education standards. The problem of gender discrimination
and child marriage are the cause of stereotype thinking which is directly linked with female
illiteracy and low-level involvement of girls in schools and universities. This could be change
by changing the perception of people, educate them about the importance of girl education
and unite them for same purpose. The government should try to change the mindset of people
by educating them about the role of female in the society.
Motivation: The government should motivate the people in the society and encourage
them to be a part of girl education. The government should focus on providing free education
for girls and should try to provide them all the basic education material like books, dress, and
even mid-day meals for students in both primary and higher secondary education. This step
of government motivates people and encourage them towards girl education. Even the poor
people can access the free books and their girl child can get free mid-day meal facilities. It