Western Uganda Bantwana Program

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

Children and adolescents in western Uganda face many threats to their well-being, safety, and development. Of particular concern is rate of sexual abuse, and related issues of teen pregnancy and forced marriage which deepen poverty and give rise to a host to lifelong obstacles to health and wellbeing, especially for girls.

For the last 12 years, the Bantwana Initiative of World Education, Inc. (WEI/B) has been working in schools and communities in four under-served districts in western Uganda. As WEI/B has built the trust of community members and expanded its reach in schools, the Western Uganda Bantwana Program (WUBP) has honed in on tackling the social norms and conditions at home and in schools that lead to violence against children.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Uganda

Activity URL

https://worlded.org/project/western-uganda-bantwana-program-wubp/

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

Not applicable or unknown

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment
  • Primary completion
  • Secondary completion
Other
  • Transition from school to work
Other skills
  • Financial literacy
  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
Quality
  • School-related gender-based violence

Cross-cutting areas

  • Early/child marriage
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Sexual harassment & coercion
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

  • Community leaders
  • School administrators

Participants include

  • Adolescent mothers (pregnant or parenting)

Program Approaches Back to Top

Health and childcare services
  • Sexual and reproductive health services (including family planning)
Life skills education
  • Gender, rights and power
  • Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)
School-related gender-based violence
  • Violence prevention curriculum/activities for students
Social/gender norms change
  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents
  • Work with community leaders
Teaching
  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
Women's empowerment programs
  • Advocacy/action
  • Empowerment training

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved critical thinking
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased primary school completion
  • Reduced absenteeism

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved financial literacy and savings
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Improved understanding of sexual harassment, coercion, and consent
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • More equal power in relationships
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced intimate partner violence
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)
  • Reduced violence against children in the home

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Gill Garb
World Education, Inc.
Vice President
wei@worlded.org
+16174829485