Uwezo

Uwezo: Learning, not just enrollment.

Twaweza supports the Uwezo initiative, a ‘citizen movement based’ approach to assessing literacy and numeracy levels in East Africa, drawing on the ASER initiative in India. Uwezo is engaged in monitoring basic literacy and numeracy levels of children aged 5-16 years across at least 50% of the districts in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda through a household-based survey. The survey process and the findings aim to make parents, students, local communities and the public at large more aware of the actual levels of childrens' capabilities in reading, writing and arithmetic. Increased information, awareness and pressure is intended to inform wider public policy debates in the media and encourage governments to improve the quality of education by focusing more on learning outcomes.

Uwezo is housed by three organizations: TENMET - Tanzania Education Network in Tanzania, WERK – Women Education Researchers in Kenya and UNNGOF -Uganda National NGO Forum in Uganda. The first nationally representative surveys have been completed in Kenya and the findings have been released to the public. The assessments have been completed in Uganda and are in process in Tanzania. Regional coordination and quality oversight is exercised through a Manager based at the Twaweza office in Dar es Salaam. Please see the Uwezo website for updates. Read the full Uwezo 4 year program document. 

Reports Update:

• The Kenya report has been released and are found at this page.
• The Tanzania main report was released on 21 September, 2010 and can be downloaded here.
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