Ministerial Policy Statement Financial Year 20172018

Abstract

The Education Sector will continue to uphold its sector mandate during the 2017/18 FY, which is “to provide for, support, guide, coordinate, regulate and promote delivery of quality education to all persons in Uganda for national integration, individual and national development”. The Sector has prioritized targets set focused on outcomes areas which include increasing and improving equitable access to quality education at all levels including higher education, equipping graduates with employable skills and promoting efficiency in resources use and allocation. Overall, this FY 2016/17, the Education Sector Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) allocation stands at Ushs. 2,447.66bn, of which Ushs.1,378.66bn (56.3%) is for Wage; Ushs.482.19bn (19.7%) is for Non-Wage; Ushs.153.27bn (7.8%) is for Domestic Development while Ushs.396.92bn (16.2%) is donor funding. From the budgetary releases for the first half of FY 2016/17, the Sector has implemented the following interventions per programme: PRE-PRIMARY AND PRIMARY PROGRAMME: The department monitored Early Childhood Development Centres, Primary Schools to assess compliance to the set Basic Requirements and Minimum Standards; supported Primary Teacher recruitment in Local Governments; procured and distributed instructional materials (Textbooks) for P.1 and P.2 to primary schools in effort to improve the Pupil Book Ratio (PBR) to 5:1. Conducted 5 training workshops for senior women and male teachers on gender awareness; Undertook mentoring and menstrual hygiene management; Procured assorted seeds, seedlings and 10 wheel barrows and distributed to various schools in Karamoja Region; transferred Ush.800m to the Teachers SACCO as part of the Presidential commitment. Under World Food Program, the sector procured 2,000 Assorted Shade Tree seedlings; 1,500 Assorted Fruits seedlings; 1,470 Gobe seeds; 3,535 kgs Cow peas seeds; 4,240kgms maize seeds, 1,684 kgs of beans seeds which were distributed to 50 selected schools in the Karamojasub-region. Monitored 470 primary schools benefiting from World Food Progamme support.