Uganda Secondary Education Expansion Project (USEEP)

About the Project

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. Underserved populations include communities hosting refugees, girls, girls and people in the targeted areas with limited access to public lower secondary schools.

Four components to the project,

The first component is the 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: the construction of new lower secondary schools and facilities, and ensuring the 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. All activities under this component are financed through grants received through the IDA 18 sub-window for refugees and host communities. This component includes three subcomponents: special needs education support, the refugee capitation grants program, and certification of prior education.

The third component is 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 the future development of quality lower secondary education through analytical and capacity-building work. This component includes two subcomponents: support to teachers and support for the development of key secondary education improvement strategies.

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. Third-party assessments will be done to verify the achievement of the PBCs, other project results and satisfactory completion of large procurements