Revision of Adult Education in Uganda Recently Completed

ICEIDA has provided the Ugandan government with counselling and financial support to revise the government’s strategy concerning adult education in the country. That revision was recently completed, according to Lilja Dóra Kolbeinsdóttir, ICEIDA’s Project Manager in Uganda.

“The conclusions were officially presented on the international literacy day, September 8, in Kumi District which is 400 kilometres east of the capital Kampala,” says Lilja Dóra. “Sulaiman Madada, the Deputy Minister of Social Affairs, was chosen to present the conclusions. They include a general satisfaction with the adult education although improvements are considered necessary to better meet the needs of the public and to use the adult education more efficiently in the fight against poverty,” says Lilja Dóra.

The revision of the adult education was carried out by Ugandan specialists with the help of the British professor Alan Rogers who has for many years worked in the developing countries on projects concerning literacy and adult education. Lilja Dóra says that the proposed improvements are diverse and it is clear that the government wants to increase the esteem of adult education in the country. Many development agencies and non-governmental organisations have, over the last fifteen years, helped the government executing adult education in the country. Today, it is mostly the Icelandic and the Irish development agencies that support adult education in Uganda, along with non-governmental organisations.

ICEIDA has supported adult education since 2002 and among other things supports an extensive and ambitious project in the island communities on Lake Victoria.

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