USAID/Uganda is in the process of designing a new program to support Uganda’s Ministry of Education and Sports (MOES) to provide high-quality literacy and HIV/AIDS education. USAID/Uganda is posting this Concept Paper in order to provide public access to any parties interested in USAID’s support to the education sector in Uganda. This Concept Paper is intended solely as a thought-piece; ideas contained herein may change significantly during the Mission’s program design, consultation and approval process.
USAID/Uganda Country Development Cooperation Strategy and Agency Goals
This program will contribute to USAID/Uganda’s CDCS Development Objective 3: Improved health and nutrition status in focus areas and populations groups as the Mission’s implementing mechanism aimed at achieving Intermediate Result 3.1.1.1: Improved literacy. It will contribute to the USAID Education Strategy Goal 1 to improve the reading skills of 100 million children
in primary grades by 2015. HIV/AIDS and health education will contribute to Intermediate Result 3.1.1, Health-seeking behaviors increased and to the PEPFAR goal of preventing 12 million new HIV infections worldwide.
Program Objectives
This program has three primary objectives: (1) to improve literacy in Uganda, (2) to promote HIV/AIDS awareness and positive health behaviors, and (3) to enable the education sector to use high-quality data to drive national and district-level management and decision-making.
Planned five-year results from the program include:
– Research-generated and EMIS data available for planning and decision-making within target schools, districts, and at the national level.
– 25% of students in Uganda achieving grade-level reading fluency in P2 and P3, with 65% meeting Uganda’s national literacy standards by P3 (NAPE).
– 750% improvement in P2 reading fluency scores within target schools and districts.
-Equity improved across genders, geographic regions and languages in early grade reading fluency and at the P3 level (NAPE).
– Local language instructional materials developed for teachers and students to support the P1-P4 thematic curriculum and promote a reading culture.
– Improved HIV/AIDS and health knowledge and skills demonstrated by teachers and students in target districts through rigorous impact evaluation.
The concept paper released is not a Request for Proposals/Applications; USAID is not receiving questions, comments at this time. For updates concerning this concept paper, interested parties are advised to periodically monitor this information by visiting grants.gov and search by funding opportunity number “USAID-UGANDA-617-INFORMATION-04-2011.”
