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
Key data
15%
out-of-school rate for children of lower-secondary school age
14%
of government expenditure on education
Grants
(data as of December 30, 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 2024-2026 period. This builds on previous support from the Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF).
- Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group (CS-BAG) for the 2024-2026 period.
Knowledge and innovation
- Uganda is part of the KIX Africa 19 hub.
- KIX research projects:
- Empowering districts and schools with data: A digital platform approach to co-create and scale education management information systems innovations
- Scaling inclusive home-based early learning initiative (SIHELI)
- Scaling-up innovative gender, inclusion and safeguarding approaches in education: Evidence from Malawi, Uganda and Ethiopia
- Scaling up sub-national education data value chains in Sub-Saharan Africa
- ‘Tuseme’ innovation strategies for achieving gender equality and social inclusion in refugee and internally displaced communities.
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