CESI Executive Summary
Join the side of the board that moves first
Meaningful educational change requires collaboration. CESI provides clear and measurable opportunities for governments, institutions and organisations to create lasting impact.
CESI Why Partner
The intervention is proven. the bottleneck is boards.
The method has already worked across thousands of Nigerian children. What limits it is supply; boards, trained teachers and delivery. That is precisely what partnership solves.
Most education partnerships ask a funder to trust a hypothesis. This one asks you to scale a result. Chess in Nigerian schools and street programmes has repeatedly improved attendance, concentration and reasoning; and children stay with it without incentives.
A partnership with CESI converts directly into physical objects in classrooms and trained adults standing beside them. There is very little distance between the money and the child.
CESI Who Can Partner
Six routes into the initiative
Government
Policy endorsement recognising chess within the national school curriculum, federal sponsorship of board production and distribution, and joint delivery of teacher training and public awareness.
Schools
Host the programme: receive boards, teacher guides and coaching support, and enter pupils into inter-school and state-level competition.
Sponsors
Fund board manufacturing and delivery at a defined scale; a school, a district, a state; with transparent reporting on every unit placed.
NGOs
Co-deliver in underserved communities, displacement settings and out-of-school programmes where CESI's method already has a track record.
Foundations
Underwrite teacher training cohorts, curriculum development and independent measurement of learning outcomes.
Corporate CSR
Adopt a school cohort under your brand, with staff volunteering days, tournament sponsorship and named board editions.
CESI Partnership opportunities
Three scales of commitment
Whether supporting a single school or an entire state, every partnership model is designed for transparency, scalability and measurable educational impact.
Equip a School
Fund a full set of the custom designed boards, guides and a starter coaching session for one public school.
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Named school adoption
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Photo and delivery report
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Recognition on the board edition
Adopt a district
Multi-school delivery across a local government area, including teacher training and a district championship.
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Teacher training cohort
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District league sponsorship
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Termly outcome reporting
Back a state
Statewide rollout in partnership with the state education board, with curriculum integration support.
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Curriculum integration support
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Statewide brand association
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Joint government engagement
CESI Partner Benefits
What you get back
Measurable Outcomes
Every partnership reports on boards delivered, schools reached, teachers trained and pupils enrolled.
National Visibility
Association with a nationally recognised initiative led by a Guinness World Record holder.
Government alignment
Work alongside federal and state education engagement already underway.
Authentic CSR
An intervention children genuinely want, delivered through the public school system.
Local manufacturing
Funding stays in Nigeria — boards are designed and produced domestically.
Long-horizon impact
A board placed once serves cohort after cohort for years.
Tell us the reach. We will return the plan.
Get in touch with the scale you have in mind; one school or one state; and the team will revert with costs, timelines and the delivery model.
