Education in Uganda
Partner since:
Total grant support: US$116,249,666
Grant eligibility:
- Multiplier
- System capacity
- System transformation
Coordinating agency: UNICEF
GPE Team lead: Subrata S. Dhar
Transforming education in Uganda
Uganda has made progress in implementing universal primary education, yet many students do not achieve minimum levels of literacy and numeracy. Low learning levels contribute to low completion rates and many students fail to transition between grades and dropout rates are high.
The government and its partners have endorsed quality foundations for learning as the priority reform to transform Uganda’s education system. With GPE support, the country is improving learning outcomes in basic competencies, especially literacy and numeracy, for all children.
Reforms will, for example, improve access to quality pre-primary education and enhance professional development for teachers. Interventions will be designed to foster a system that better serves vulnerable groups such as girls, refugees, those with disabilities and learners from socioeconomically marginalized areas.
Result story
Grants
(data as of May 09, 2024)
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Type: Program development
Years: 2022 - 2023
Allocation: US$200,000
Utilization: US$197,397
Grant agent: WB
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Type: COVID-19
Years: 2020 - 2021
Allocation: US$15,000,000
Utilization: US$14,998,918
Grant agent: WB
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Objectives:
- Provide self-studying home packages to students and use of radio and television to deliver lessons
- Support safe reopening of schools and re-entry of students through school grants and funds for handwashing facilities, psychosocial support, safety and security of students, and fumigation and repairs of schools that were used as isolation centers for COVID-19
- Give vulnerable and disadvantaged groups large print and braille materials, radio lessons saved on memory cards and TV lessons with interpreters for students with hearing impairment
- Create a remedial program for at risk girls and a re-enrollment campaign to reach girls and children from vulnerable populations
- Define strategies to support the continued learning of students, teachers, activities to improve coordination among various stakeholders and building capacity of systems of education at all levels
Document:
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Type: Sector plan development
Years: 2018 - 2020
Allocation: US$500,000
Utilization: US$500,000
Grant agent: UNICEF
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Type: Program implementation
Years: 2014 - 2020
Allocation: US$100,000,000
Utilization: US$98,470,076
Grant agent: WB
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Objectives:
- Strengthen teacher competency, resources, motivation, and accountability
- Establish a supportive enabling environment to strengthen teacher competency
- Finance advisory, technical, and capacity building for project implementation, data management, monitoring and evaluation, improving teacher payroll, and preparing the next education sector plan
Documents:
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Type: Sector plan development
Years: 2013 - 2014
Allocation: US$249,717
Utilization: US$249,717
Grant agent: WB
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Type: Program development
Years: 2013 - 2014
Allocation: US$299,949
Utilization: US$299,949
Grant agent: WB
Civil society engagement
As part of its investment in civil society advocacy and social accountability efforts, GPE’s Education Out Loud fund is supporting:
- The Forum for Education NGOs in Uganda (FENU) for the 2020-2023 period. This builds on previous support from the Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF).
- Adolescent Mothers’ Education Initiative (AMEI) led by World Vision UK for the 2021-2024 period.
Knowledge and innovation
- Uganda is part of the KIX Africa 19 hub.
- KIX research projects:
- Adapting assessment into policy and learning (ADAPT): Adolescent 21st Century skills in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania
- Bridges to impact through innovative EdTech: Forging links between policy, research and practice
- Common-scale assessment of early and foundational math learning across the Global South
- Data Use Innovations for Education Management Information Systems in The Gambia, Uganda, and Togo
- Inclusive child to child learning approach: Scaling up inclusive play based learning for smooth transition from pre-primary to primary school.
- Observatory on COVID-19 Responses in Educational Systems in Africa
- Scaling the School Readiness Initiative - Strengthening School and Community Capacities for Adoption of Play-based Learning in Uganda and Zambia
- The Inclusive Home-based Early Learning Project
Latest blogs and news
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How political will, inter-organization collaboration and capacity building can lead to refugee inclusion in education systems of host countries.
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