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Community Action to Support Education (CASE), Uganda

World Learning's Community Action to Support Education (CASE) project uses an integrated package of grants, training, and technical assistance to enable nascent and emerging education NGOs to implement innovative education-related programs. Currently working with nine carefully selected Ugandan NGO partners, the project helps create a skilled community of indigenous NGOs that addresses educational concerns. NGOs who are not partners are also able to take advantage of training activities so that the community created will not be limited to the project partners. CASE was instrumental to the launching of Uganda's first education NGO network in spring 2001 and is currently the network's coordinating NGO. Originally designed as a three-year activity, CASE was recently extended until September 2004.

Project objectives include:

Delivering the support necessary to strengthen both service delivery and the institutional capacities of the NGOs;
Strengthening the capacity of local NGOs to carry out innovations in basic education;
Linking innovations in education to the formal structure;
Serving as a first step towards the creation of a community of Ugandan NGOs working in education; and
Encouraging community involvement in the formal education system.

Partner NGOs develop, implement, and evaluate their projects in close collaboration with community stakeholders, which creates a shared understanding of the project's goals, objectives, and implementation strategies. Community involvement at the planning stage lays the foundation for continued grassroots investment in the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation stages of the project. World Learning works closely with its NGO partners to identify each organization's institutional strengthening needs and priorities, using World Learning's Institutional Analysis Instrument (IAI) to assist each partner develop an institutional strengthening plan in the form of a customized training plan that takes into account its particular needs. The collective IAI results are used to develop the overall plan for institutional strengthening. In addition, there is a technical training plan to provide the partners with the technical skills to effectively carry out their education-related activities.

Grants provide the financial support required for NGOs to increase their institutional capacity and carry out their educational activities. These include the development of innovative curricula, the strengthening school management committees, adult literacy training, special education programs for disadvantaged groups such as homeless children and the disabled, and support to improve nursery school programs, and establishing NGO resource centers.

Partner: Ugandan NGOs
Project: Foundation Grant
1998. 2004
Uganda

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