Despite Uganda’s efforts to enhance access to secondary education through the universal secondary education (USE) programme, access to secondary education remains a challenge—especially for poor students and girls. Also, ...

Women remain underrepresented in local government politics which offers men an unfair advantage,ultimately overshadowing women in decision-making. It also implies that issues that uniquely affect women may not be prioritised ...

Youth unemployment continues to be a developmental challenge not only in Uganda but in several sub Saharan countries. Ugandan youth (18-30 years) are twice likely to be unemployed compared to their older counterparts ...

The need to pay school fees remains a challenge for many secondary students despite the existence of the Universal Secondary Education (USE) programme in Uganda and its associated capitation grants. Due to the variety of ...

Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) is a necessary condition for sustainable development and pro-poor growth. It increases women’s access to economic resources and opportunities. Although, there are laws, policies and ...

Uganda was among the first African countries to initiate a large-scale Universal Post- Primary Education and Training (UPPET) program in 2007. As result of this program, the student population in secondary schools increased ...

After implementing the Universal Primary Education policy for 10 years, Uganda initiated the Universal Secondary Education (USE) policy in 2007. The objective of the USE initiative was to equitably increasing access to ...