Supporting
Educational Quality and Policy Reform
Uganda
July – September 2002
 In
1992, USAID and the government of Uganda signed a bilateral
agreement for the Support to Ugandan Primary Education
Reform (SUPER) Project, a $110 million agreement for program
and project aid to Uganda’s Ministry of Education
and Sports. SUPER instituted the Teacher Development and
Management System, an improved training system allowing
every teacher in the country to receive training and access
to a local Coordinating Center Tutor. Theses tutors circulate
among schools, providing feedback and technical support.
When the SUPER project ended in May 2000, USAID/Uganda
sought technical assistance through the BEPS Activity to
continue technical assistance to the Ministry of Education.
BEPS
designed a comprehensive program to sustain, improve, and
extend the Teacher Development
and Management System,
complete nationwide implementation, and promote better
management of education through decentralization to the
districts and sub-counties of Uganda. Since 2000, a long-term
Education Policy and Institutional Advisor has supervised,
monitored, and facilitated in-service training in 14 national
primary teacher colleges. Since being reassigned to Uganda’s
Primary Education Department in the fall of 2001, the advisor
has continued to work with primary teacher colleges with
a focus on education policy. She has additionally provided
technical support for two bi-annual Education Sector Investment
Program Reviews where donors determine whether conditions
have been met for the release of additional funds for basic
education.
The BEPS initiative has resulted in improved teacher
training capability in Ugandan Primary Teacher Colleges,
extensive
training for Cooperating Center Tutors, and residential,
in-service training for participating Ugandan teachers.
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