Empowering girls with disabilities through education in Uganda

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Key Information

Chesire Services Uganda (CSU) implements the seven-year (2018-2024) ‘Empowering girls with disabilities through education in Uganda’ project under the Girls’ Education Challenge Transition programme (GEC-T). This project aims to support the same girls from GEC1, and about 586 boys with disabilities to complete the different education cycles - primary, lower secondary, upper secondary and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). Through the previous GEC-1 project, 2,089 girls with disabilities from low-income communities in the Kampala Capital City area were able to complete their education. By the end of GEC-1 in February 2017, 2,063 girls had been retained, the lowest grade being P2 and the highest-level being S2. Children supported by the new programme live in Nakawa, Kawempe, Rubaga, and Central divisions and are distributed in 335 primary and secondary schools, and 44 TVET institutions.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Uganda

Activity URL

https://girlseducationchallenge.org/projects/project/empowering-girls-with-disabilities-in-uganda-through-education/

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2017 - 2024

Partner(s)

National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC), Kampala City, Council Authority (KCCA)

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

COVID-19 Response

Adapted

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Primary to secondary transition
  • Secondary completion

Other

  • Remote Learning

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning
  • Vocational training

Quality

  • School facilities
  • Teacher training

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • COVID-19 Response
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Mentorship
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys in school, Girls in school, Youth

Age

10 - 20

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

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

Other populations reached

  • Fathers
  • Mothers
  • Other caregivers
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

  • People with disabilities

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Improving transportation

Facilities construction/improvement

  • Construction/improvement of classrooms

Health and childcare services

  • Referrals to health services

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

Menstrual hygiene management

  • Educating girls about menstruation

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Adult (non-teacher) mentors

Policy/legal environment

  • Public-private partnerships

Reducing economic barriers

  • Addressing cost of school supplies

School-related gender-based violence

  • Training of school personnel (including teachers)

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy

Water and sanitation

  • Construction/improvement of toilets (combined use)

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Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased years of schooling
  • Reduced absenteeism

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved health - other
  • Improved mental health
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)