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.

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.

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• Uganda is part of the KIX Africa 19 hub.
• KIX ongoing research projects:
  • Africa Regional Education System Resilience Observatory
  • Scaling inclusive home-based early learning initiative (SIHELI)
  • Scaling-up innovative gender, inclusion and safeguarding approaches in education: Evidence from Malawi, Uganda and Ethiopia
  • ‘Tuseme’ innovation strategies for achieving gender equality and social inclusion in refugee and internally displaced communities.
  • Scaling up sub-national education data value chains in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Empowering districts and schools with data: A digital platform approach to co-create and scale education management information systems innovations
  • Adapting assessment into policy and learning (ADAPT): Adolescent 21st Century skills in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania
  • The Inclusive Home-based Early Learning Project
  • Scaling the School Readiness Initiative - Strengthening School and Community Capacities for Adoption of Play-based Learning in Uganda and Zambia
  • 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
  • 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
  • Bridges to impact through innovative EdTech: Forging links between policy, research and practice

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