Category: Empowerment for Girls Education
The Ultimate Guide to Improving Classroom Management for Ugandan Teachers to reduce the school dropout rate
Introduction: What is Classroom Management & Why is it Important for Ugandan Teachers? “The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn’t count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don’t enjoy it, who don’t get any real benefit from it.” Said Sir Ken Robinson, a British author, speaker, and international advisor on education who died iRead More…
Legal and Policy Framework on prevention of HIV and pregnancy, and re-entry after pregnancy in learning institutions in Uganda
A) International and Regional Conventions on Rights of Children and Youth Uganda is a signatory to various international and regional conventions and protocols relating to rights of children to health, education, environment without violence, among others. Key among these include: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC): Consistent with the obligation under ARead More…
Empowering Adolescent Girls and Young Women through Technology
Despite major increases in girls’ access to education in Uganda through the introduction of Universal Primary Education (UPE), Universal Secondary Education (USE), and UPOLET, learning outcomes are still poor and gender inequalities persist. Given the developmental benefits of education – for individual girls, their families and communities, and wider society – these inequalities represent sRead More…
Schools in Kasese district
Kasese District is a District found in the Rwenzori Sub-Region of Western Uganda. The district has 29 sub-counties, 153 Parishes and 726 villages. The District has over 688 schools currently with 190 Nursery Schools, 427 Primary Schools, 65 Secondary Schools, 4 Tertiary Schools, 1 Primary Teachers’ College. Information from the Kasese District Website shows that Mr. Mainja George is the DistRead More…