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A Community-Collaborative Approach to Education Reform
By Building Tomorrow When the covid-19 pandemic hit the world in early 2020, governments globally ordered lockdowns, which stalled many socio-economic activities. In Uganda, schools were closed in March 2020 and due to technological challenges, the Building Tomorrow staff were…
Covid -19 Budget Cuts Affect Child Rights Programming in Eastern Africa
By Andiwo Obondoh and Margaret Wawira East Africa’s three waves of covid-19 in 2020/2021 have resulted in a lot of stress and immense strain on child rights civil society organisations and their programmes. The pandemic impacted all aspects of these…
Education sector budget deficit a concern for school programmes in Uganda
By Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group (CSBAG) RELI members- Civil Society Budget Advisory Group, STiR Education, and The Uganda Society for Disabled Children, urged the government to increase spending for schools inspection and monitoring at an exciting session in parliament…
Great expectations of the ALiVE Learning Community
By John Mugo, Mauro Giacomazzi, Devotha Festo and Samuel Otieno The Assessment of Life Skills and Values in East Africa was launched on February 17th, in a covid-friendly online ceremony marking the start of a three-year project to document evidence…
Justice Mumbi Ngugi’s Speech at the Launch of the Assessment of Lifeskills and Values in East Africa Project.
Wednesday 17th February 2021. I am honoured to participate in the launch of the ALiVE project, and to be among the members of the Regional Education Learning Initiative and VaLi, which is keen on analyzing school curriculums and identifying gaps…
School leaders uncovered.
By John Mary Vianney Mitana (PhD), Jean Mary Wendo, Jude Edward Matovu The impact of Covid-19 has disrupted schooling globally, with 1.6bn learners out of school In Uganda alone, more than 15 million learners and 500,000 teachers are affected but…
Becoming comfortable with being uncomfortable.
By Girls Livelihood and Mentoring Initiatives As the year 2020 began, like everyone in the world, the Girls Livelihood and Mentoring Initiatives (GLAMI) had no way of knowing the immense changes that would come in the year. Since then, the…
Parental engagement: the magic bullet that countered school dropouts.
By: Alex Kimiri, Africa Educational Trust Covid-19 has affected children’s learning across the globe and the solutions that work in the richer parts of the world just haven’t worked in places like Kenya’s Laikipia North. When schools started to close…
Re-opening in the time of COVID-19 in Kenya.
By Ann Gachoya, Truphena Kirongo, Fredrick Kiiru, George Odwe, Chi-Chi Undie. In December 2020, Kenya’s Ministry of Education started preparing to to fully re-open schools after nearly a year. The MoE focused specifically on building the capacity of education officials…
