The Lagos Civil Society Participation for Development has called on the Lagos State Government to create a budget that would provide learning aids and accessibility needs of children with disabilities.
The Lagos State Government has committed to improving the status of inclusive education in the State by increasing the budgetary allocation to the education sector in the Year 2021 budget.
Making the call during a 5-day virtual budget consultative forum was organized by the Lagos State Ministry of Economic Planning and Budget held in the State’s five Ibile divisions.
The network, formerly known as the Lagos State Civil Society Partnership, LACSOP, called for the budgetary provision to establish 12 model inclusive schools (two in each educational district) out of the existing 44 inclusive schools under Lagos State Inclusive policy.
LACSOP remarked that the state government must apply the Y2021 Budget towards attaining the SDGs, notably Goal 17, which promotes multi-stakeholder partnership, even as it proposed that adequate provision be made for participatory civil society tracking of the capital projects to enable tracking of the Budget.
In response, the Lagos State Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folashade Adefisayo, said all the education sector inputs would be adopted and adequate provisions made.
