Uganda COVID-19 Education Response Project

  • P Project/Program

I Inactive

Key Information

The COVID-19 Education Response Project was created to support students learning (pre-primary, primary and lower secondary) during school closures associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure a safe reopening and student re-entry. The Project contains three components: Component 1: Ensuring continuous learning during school closure; Component 2: Supporting safe re-opening, student re-entry and capacity building for resilience; Component 3: Implementation management Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation. The implementation of this project environmental and social safeguards was guided by Government of Uganda’s policy and legal framework, including, the National Gender Policy that makes the case for gender mainstreaming at the sector level, including education, and The national GBV policy that provides for prevention and GBV response and also sets priority areas of action at the National, Sector, District and Community levels. Under Component 2 the Ministry of Education and Sports was responsible for carrying out back-to-school awareness campaigns to ensure all children resume school, re-entry, enrolment and re-integration into the formal schooling system. These campaigns targeted specifically girls and children from vulnerable populations to mitigate risks of student dropout.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Uganda

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Uganda

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2020 - 2021

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES)

COVID-19 Response

New for COVID-19

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Secondary Enrollment

Other

  • Remote Learning

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting areas

  • COVID-19 Response
  • Gender equality
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary

Other populations reached

  • School administrators
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

  • N/A

Program Approaches Back to Top

Curriculum/learning

  • Remedial education/skills

Educational Technology

  • Digital learning materials/programs

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Educational Radio or Television Programs
  • Increased availability of Fiction/non-fiction books (digital)
  • Textbooks (digital)
  • Textbooks (paper)

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

Other

  • Check-in calls or SMS messages by teachers

Social/gender norms change

  • Media campaigns

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • Literacy - outside the classroom

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased enrolment in primary school
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased primary school completion
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Reduced absenteeism

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved health - other
  • Improved mental health
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)