Executive Summary
Learning Poverty (LP) is an educational concept that portrays the inability of children to read
and understand a short, age-appropriate text by age 10 (or latest by the end of Primary
School). The LP is usually measured by the Learning Poverty Indicator (LPI). This Learning
Poverty Research attempts to obtain the Learning Poverty Indicators (LPI) for Kaduna State,
across the 23 LGAs, to enhance quality of education and provide guidance for possible
intervention. The World Bank estimates that 53% of children in low-income as well as middleincome countries cannot read by the end of Primary School. This learning crisis, also referred
to as Learning Poverty, seriously undermines sustainable growth and poverty reduction. This
informs the need for Kaduna State Government to conduct its own Learning Poverty Research
to investigate the level of LP and the magnitude of learning deprivation in Kaduna State.