Bamunanika Education Foundation’s 5-year Strategic Plan will contribute to Government of Uganda development Plan in the following ways;
- Promoting community development by intensifying efforts to eliminate poverty
(a) Ensuring that less privileged populations attain sustainable access to adequate, quality and improved crop varieties and animal breeds. b) Community capacity strengthening and ensuring that they can effectively manage agricultural production c) Agricultural market systems and value chains strengthening to efficiently manage the yields for profits.
- Expand our focus and combat underlying causes of illiteracy/failure to access quality education.
This will be done through a) Capacity strengthening of households and communities to absorb and adapt to shocks, ensuring stable and sustainable livelihoods to access education requirements. b) transforming public sectors to enable poor, less privileged and disabled populations to access education. c) increasing funding and support to the scholarship program
- Connect with diverse partners and mobilize the wider public for lasting change.
(1) Bamunanika Education Foundation will develop and implement a robust advocacy strategy aligned with the Government of Uganda’s national education advocacy strategy that aims at eliminating the barriers to improved education services of the less privileged in the communities. At national level, we will use our expertise in education to support the government to scale-up the free education movement, and strengthen the operationalization of existing education policies.
(2) We will work with the ministries of local government, agriculture and education to ensure that (a) existing government policies are effectively translated into district and sub-county development plans, and (b) are adequately funded. Similarly, we will support local government to strengthen district education coordination committees, and use these platforms to mobilize CSOs and the private sector to align their investment plans and efforts toward supporting district education priorities.
(3) We will collaborate with districts, media and telecom companies to digitalize and disseminate essential livelihood and education messages (using radio, TV and cellular technology) to enhance coverage and positive behavioral change. Our media campaigns will be designed in a manner that reinforces essential livelihood and education action and mainstreaming of gender equity in all efforts, which are jointly undertaken, by government, and CSOs to address the root-causes of intergenerational poverty.
(4) We will invest in strengthening community structures (including local governance, faith-based organizations) to enable them to effectively mobilize citizens to participate in government policy development processes and programs, and advocate for their rights (using non-confrontational dialogues).
(5) Collaborate with premier universities (e.g., Kyambogo and Makerere) and support graduate-level research efforts aimed at generating and effectively disseminating evidence, which informs policy development and effectiveness of education programs in Uganda.
- Transform our funding model for sustainability
(a) expanding the coverage of our programs to support more households and communities to eliminate poverty and illiteracy; (b) developing robust organizational capabilities, which drive innovation, growth and program effectiveness.
