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  • Gender analysis of educational support programs for OVC in Uganda and Tanzania 

    Brooks, Mohamad; Bryanta, Malcolm; Shann, Mary; Bukuluki, Paul; Muhangid, Denis; Lugalla, Joe; Kwesigabo, Gideon (Routledge, 2014-12-10)
    Gender plays an important role in education as most traditional societies give pre- ference to boys over girls when it comes to educational opportunity. Increasing access to education for girls is important to the health ...

  • Gender Parity Approaches in Uganda’s Education System: A Case of Public Secondary Schools in Bugiri District 

    Muweesi, Charles; Mugenyi, Disan; Kaweesi, Muhamadi; Kintu, George; Tomusange, Robert; Isabirye, Christopher; Namagero, Tendo Shira; Kaahwa, Yuda Taddeo; Sserwadda, Lawrence; Wanyana, Mercy; Nakonde, Justine; Nakasaawe, Victoria (Academic Journals, 2023-08-01)
    The study examined the available approaches to improving gender parity in public secondary schools in Bugiri District. It specifically focused on the approaches put in place to improve gender parities in Public secondary ...

  • Gender Sensitive Educational Policy and Practice 

    Muhwezi, Doris Kakuru (NTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF EDUCATION, 2003-01-01)
    Uganda’s formal education terrain today has undergone several modifications since the 1880s when education was first introduced by the Christian Missionaries. Until the early 1990s the education policy was fraught with ...

  • HigHer education Financing 

    Pillay, Pundy (African Minds, 2010-01-01)
    This multi-country study of higher education financing includes three East African states (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda), five countries in southern Africa (Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa), and an ...

  • Practices of Citizenship in East Africa 

    Holma, Katariina; Kontinen, Tiina (Routledge, 2020-01-01)
    In this book, we offer a number of illustrations of what citizenship means and how it is practiced in selected locations in Tanzania and Uganda. Moreover, we discuss the potential contribution of philosophical pragmatism ...

  • Gender Education and Equality in a Global Context 

    Fennell, Shailaja; Arnot, Madeleine (Routledge, 2008-01-01)
    What does gender equality mean for young men and women in poor communit- ies across different countries? The Millennium Development Goals aim to achieve basic education for all by 2015. But can such global agendas address ...

  • Gender Equity in Education 

    Bandyopadhyay, Madhumita; Subrahmanian, Ramya (CREATE, 2008-01-01)
    This review paper draws on recent data to map the access and participation rates of girls relative to boys. The paper makes the following broad points: a) While female enrolment has increased rapidly since the 1990s, ...

  • The Politics of Education in Developing Countries 

    Hickey, Sam; Hossain, Naomi (Oxford, 2019)
    This manuscript brings together the findings and analysis from a project entitled ‘The Politics of Social Provisioning’ that was undertaken within the Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre (ESID) ...

  • Mathematics Education in East Africa 

    Anjum, Halai; Tennant, Geoff (Springer, 2016)
    The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) has a substantive interest in ensuring that its resources and influence extend to any country that is able to mobilize the elements of its mathematics education ...

  • A Model for Digitization Success in Ugandan TVETs: Evaluation Through Structured Walkthroughs and Simulation 

    Muinda, Patrick Emmanuel; Habinka, Annabella; Ejiri, Basaza; Maiga, Gilbert; Mayoka, Kituyi (DRPM-UBD, 2025-03-01)
    This study proposes an information systems model to enhance the success of digitization projects in Ugandan Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions. The research was based on agency theory, ...

  • School-Parent Engagement on Stimulation Activities in Pre-Primary Schools in Kira Municipality in Wakiso District, Uganda 

    Mutumba, Safina; Busingye, Evangelista; Maani, John Samson (East African Journal of Education Studies, 2024-04-11)
    Stimulation activities are events that parents and other caregivers give to the children to support their cognitive, emotional, and physical needs right from birth onwards. For instance, playing and talking with them (even ...