April 22, 2025
Through after-school structured learning lessons in reading and math, community volunteers conduct small group learning for up to 25 children, for four hours per week. The 96 one-hour lessons are structured and developed collaboratively with the National Curriculum Development Centre. Community volunteers, learning facilitators, and senior teacher mentors assigned by district education officers formed the core instructional delivery model. The project included development and distribution of Community-Led Learning and Family-Led Learning manuals for use by CLL Facilitators and parents; and the provision of flashcards, blackboards, chalk, dusters, and reporting sheets. The programme was co-designed with the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) and aligned to the initial competencies in the country’s lower primary school curriculum.
Transforming Children’s Lives through Community-Led Learning
Project Status
5,000
Enrolled Out of School Children
60,000
At Risk Children
The Transforming Children’s Lives through Community-Led Learning project rolled out in the West Nile and Eastern Regions of Uganda. It was developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to deliver a remedial learning programme through a “Community-Led Learning” (CLL) model. The project’s focus was to improve academic skills in literacy and numeracy for children who had fallen far behind grade level in foundational learning and for those who are highly likely to discontinue their education. Over the course of a six-month period, this project aimed to reach 60,000 children categorized as “high risk” and “most at risk” of dropping out of school and a further 5,000 OOSC.
Barriers:
- Poverty
- Overcrowding in Classrooms
- Long Distance to School
- Violence
- Long period of COVID-19-related school closures
- Low levels of literacy and numeracy competency
- Early pregnancy and child marriages
Solutions:
- Provision of learning materials
- Conduct lessons with class sizes of no more than 20 children
- Volunteers trained to establish learning centres close to children
- WASH
- After-school remedial classes
- Scripted literacy and numeracy lessons by community-identified facilitators
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