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COVID-19
Allocation: US$15 million
Years: 2020-2021
Grant agent: World Bank
Key documents:
The US$15 million COVID-19 grant supports:
These initiatives are based on the Ministry of Education’s COVID-19 response plan.
In late March 2020, the UNICEF office in Uganda received a GPE grant of US$70,000 to support the Ministry of Education in planning its response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The government of Uganda considers education a basic human right. Participating in education is also viewed as part of the solution to reducing poverty. The government is dedicated to providing equitable access to quality and affordable education to all Ugandans.
The education sector in Uganda is constrained by many challenges. These include a high level of teacher and student absenteeism, weak school level management structures, inadequate availability of learning materials, and large class sizes.
A major issue is also the availability of teachers in disadvantaged areas and a lack of accommodation for teachers in rural, hard to reach areas.
The Education Sector Strategic Plan 2010-2015 (ESSP) is aimed at addressing three critical concerns:
The overall objective of the updated ESSP is to achieve universal primary and secondary education, while enhancing equitable access to tertiary education. The ESSP outlines 8 specific policy objectives to achieve this goal:
The ESSP also includes objectives focused on the crosscutting issues of HIV/AIDs, reproductive health, and gender. These are:
Strategies to achieve the objectives involve supporting programs targeting disadvantaged children and youth, expanding and improving school facilities, improving instructional processes leading to student achievement, and strengthening the teaching force.
Girls in class at Makamba Primary School Uganda, November 2017.
Uganda’s first GPE grant of US$100 million is focused on improving teacher and school effectiveness in the public education system.
The three components of the grant are:
The ministry of Education and Sports leads the program with the World Bank as the grant agent and UNICEF as the coordinating agency.
All amounts are in US dollars.
Grant type | Years | Allocations | Utilization | Grant agent | |
COVID-19 | 2020-2021 | 15,000,000 | 0 | WB | |
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Program implementation | 2014-2020 | 100,000,000 | 98,470,076 | WB | Completion report |
Sector plan development | 2018-2020 | 500,000 | 500,000 | UNICEF | |
2013-2014 | 249,717 | 249,717 | WB | ||
Program development | 2022-2023 | 200,000 | 21,033 | WB | |
2013-2014 | 299,949 | 299,949 | WB | ||
Total | 116,249,666 | 99,540,775 |
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 2019-2021 period.
This builds on 11 years of Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF) support to national education coalitions for their engagement in education sector policy dialogue.
GPE had provided the Forum for Education NGOs in Uganda (FENU) with a grant from the CSEF to support its engagement in education sector policy dialogue and citizens’ voice in education quality, equity, and financing and sector reform.