The Status of Implementation of the Education Sector Early Childhood Development Policy in Uganda

Abstract

Effective implementation of efficient Early Childhood Development (ECD) programmes relies greatly on a comprehensive ECD policy. It was these convictions that inspired the development and launch of the Ugandan Education sector ECD policy in 2007 (MoES, 2007). It is now five years since the ECD policy was launched. Simply looking at one aspect and determining the success or failure of the policy would yield insufficient results towards findings steady headways to improve ECD in Uganda. Following these pursuits, this study set out to assess the effectiveness of the ECD policy in promoting quality early childhood service provision in Uganda as envisaged in the policy objectives. This study was guided by the following objectives: 1. To establish the extent to which ECD policy objectives have been achieved 2. To identify gaps in the policy that need to be filled to promote quality ECD service provision