TI Uganda is running a three year Africa Education Watch project (2007-210). The project is funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation through Transparency International (TI) Secretariat. This project is part of the EWA programme currently running in seven African TI National Chapters (Ghana, Madagascar, Morocco, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Uganda). The programme aims at improving transparency and accountability in the use of primary education resources with the overall goal of improving transparency and accountability in the management of primary education resources in Africa.

The overall goal of the project is to increase access to, and to provide better primary education through more transparent and accountable management of education resources. This is hoped to be achieved through increased public demand for quality education and accountability by communities.

The objectives include:

·      Improving the flow o information and transparency in spending for primary education so that community stakeholders are more aware of the resources available to schools in their localities.

·      Increasing public awareness of corruption and increasing commitment to action by civil society so that people are able to demand better school buildings, better qualified teachers and teaching materials.

·      Increasing awareness and responsiveness of officials, educators and education planners so that they are more aware of their responsibilities to the community and manage the finances in a more transparent way, they are more open to public scrutiny etc.

·      Building strong local/regional coalitions against corruption in primary education so that effective alliances are nurtured for effective demand for better service delivery in primary education.

Project implementation is in three phases; the assessment phase, national survey and the campaign phase. The first two phases feeds into the advocacy phase. TI Uganda is currently involved in building coalitions and identification of potential reform “champions” and sharing national assessment results with stakeholders to input into the recommendations for policy advocacy