In Uganda’s setting, the Ministry of Education and
Sports is mandated to provide, support,
guide, coordinate, regulate and promote quality education, trainings and sports
to all persons in Uganda for national integration, development and individual
advancement. www.gov.ug/ministry/ministry-education-and-sports
“Some of the objectives of the ministry of
education is to ensure equal access by gender, district and special needs at
all levels of Education and to build capacity of districts by helping Education
Managers acquire and improve on their knowledge, skills and attitudes to be
able to plan, monitor, account and perform managerial functions, but the
ministry can’t fulfill all the objectives , so as District Education Officers (DEOs)
we find gaps, that is why we need organizations like ToroDev to come on board
to fill some existing gaps”, Said Mr. Rwakaikara Patrick the District
Education Officer, Kabarole district during the consultative meeting.
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| Pupils at one of the schools in our community |
“The ministry of education faces challenges
due to limited funds, as a district we receive funds which can’t do the needed
work to have the best infrastructure in all school, have best furniture, have
access to clean water , have staff quarters etc . This is indeed a challenge but
with the help of NGOs like UNICEF, world Vision, somehow they bridge the gap,
so we are grateful for your decision as ToroDev to meet us and we discuss this,
it will be great partnering with you as a developing partner”. Said Ms
Tibakanya Gertrude, the District Education Officer Kyenjojo District.
“Most challenges we
encounter in Universal Primary Schools (UPE) in western Uganda are similar which
mainly includes; high school dropout rate of pupils with the biggest percentage
being girls, poor hygiene & sanitation (shortage of pit latrine and clean
running water), limited staff quarters, non functionality of school management
committees etc, we are happy and welcome the idea wholeheartedly when ToroDev
wants to work with us to address some of these challenges.”, Said Mr.
Asiimwe Stephen Douglas, the District Education Officer Kyegegwa district.
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| Girls need to be helped by both parents and teachers to attain education |
’As ToroDev we want to partner with the districts to address some of challenges that the education
sector faces, for the beginning we want to see that the School Management Committees (SMC’s) and
Parents Teachers’ Associations (PTA’s) are trained on their roles &
responsibilities to curb the issue of school drop outs, sensitization of
citizens through radios & physical meetings on how to avoid preventable
diseases, Train senior women and pupils on re-usable sanitary towels aimed at keeping
the girl child in school, rewarding of best performing teachers in hard to
reach areas, etc.’’,
Said David Kugonza, Documentation & Communications Officer ToroDev.
“For education sector
to improve we need more NGOS to come on board and bridge the gaps, as Inspector
of schools, we are supposed to inspect schools twice a term but due to limited
funds we are forced to do it once, which makes head teachers relax and this to
some extent has resulted to poor performance. So if ToroDev can fund us and we
inspect schools twice a term we believe change in performance can be seen.“
Said Mr. Rujumba John, the Inspector of schools Kabarole district.
We are grateful to all our partners for the financial and technical support.
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