Uganda Secondary Education Expansion Project (USEEP)

  • P Project/Program

A Active

Key Information

The objective of the Secondary Education Expansion Project for Uganda is to enhance access to lower secondary education by focusing on underserved populations in targeted areas. There are four components to the project, the first component being expansion of lower secondary education. This component will focus on building more schools and expanding existing schools, and by providing learning environments that are safe, non-violent, and supportive of girls’ education. This component includes two subcomponents: construction of new lower secondary schools and facilities and ensuring safety and protection of children. The second component is the hosting community and refugee education support. Component two will focus on both new and existing lower secondary schools in refugee hosting sub counties within the 12 targeted districts. This component includes three subcomponents: special needs education support, the refugee capitation grants program, and certification of prior education. The third component is the improving teachers support and strategy development nationally. This component will help to implement the teacher policy through scaling up existing elements of the teacher support system and building capacity of the school headteachers as primary pedagogical supporters for teachers. The component will also aim to prepare for future development of quality lower secondary education through analytical and capacity building work. Finally, the fourth component is the project management, monitoring and evaluation. This component will provide support to the project implementation, supervision, monitoring and evaluation, and verification costs. It will finance project staff, office rent, furniture, equipment, transportation, data collection and analysis, including gender specific aspects of the project, and capacity building.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Uganda

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Uganda

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2020 - 2025

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of Education and Sports

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

  • Secondary completion
  • Secondary Enrollment

Other skills

  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning
  • Vocational training

Quality

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

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
  • Gender equality
  • Migration
  • Other cultural practices
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

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 secondary

Other populations reached

  • Community leaders
  • Fathers
  • Mothers
  • School administrators
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

  • Adolescent mothers (pregnant or parenting)
  • Displaced/refugee - External (from other countries)

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Technical assistance/capacity building to civil society organizations or governments

Curriculum/learning

  • Gender-sensitive curricula

Facilities construction/improvement

  • Construction/improvement of classrooms
  • Construction/improvement of schools

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power
  • Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building

Reducing economic barriers

  • Income-generating activities

School-related gender-based violence

  • Anti-violence policies and codes of conduct

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved critical thinking
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased secondary school completion
  • Increased secondary school enrolment
  • Increased years of schooling

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved health - other
  • Improved mental health
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased knowledge of rights
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)