Uganda Gender Unit Initiatives: Promotion of Girls' Education

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I Inactive

Key Information

Uganda's Gender in Education Unit aims to: provide technical assistance to support coordination and consistency of approaches to gender mainstreaming in the sector; address barriers to girls’ education including undertaking sanitation and hygiene initiatives in schools; and, reduce incidences of violence against children in schools to improve completion and retention rate. Some of the Gender Unit initatives implemented during 2018-2019 include: the development of the Menstrual Hygiene Management Manual; Regional Training on Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV); review of National Strategy for Girls’ Education 2014-2019; Regional dissemination of the Gender in Education Policy (2017) and Gender Responsive Planning and Budgeting training workshops. During the period under review, the following outcomes were realized; (a) Increased capacity for gender mainstreaming in education; (b) Improved coordination and partnership with relevant line ministries, development partners, private sector and civil society organizations; and, (c) Increased awareness on key gender and equity in education.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Uganda

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Uganda

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2017 - 2020

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES)

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Secondary completion

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • School-related gender-based violence
  • School violence
  • Teacher training

Skills

  • STEM

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • Empowerment
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Teachers - female, Teachers - male, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

  • Boys (both in school and out of school)
  • School administrators

Participants include

  • N/A

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • General awareness-raising/community engagement
  • Technical assistance/capacity building to civil society organizations or governments

Health and childcare services

  • Adolescent-friendly health services

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power
  • Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)

Menstrual hygiene management

  • Educating girls about menstruation
  • Raising awareness about menstruation (beyond just girls)

Policy/legal environment

  • Advocating changes to existing laws/policies
  • Public-private partnerships

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • STEM - outside the classroom

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Reduced absenteeism

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved mental health
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)
  • Reduced violence against children in the home