JICA Monthly Report Nov 2021
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| Project Introduction to: from left to right Butambala, Wakiso, Mubende |
Project introduction to Districts and Baseline Survey
■Project introduction (16th November
-22nd November)
■Baseline survey and Data Collection (29th
November - 6th December)
<Progress>
The project was introduced to the
respective districts including Wakiso, Butambala and Mubende through getting in
contact with the Chief Administrative Officers. The team first of all prepared
necessary documents including the introduction Letter to the Chief
Administrative Officers (From JICA), project first quarter workplans, project
minutes signed with JICA and Global Bridge Network (GBN). These were put in
file which was presented during the meetings in the respective districts. In
all the districts a conclusion was reached on the schools where the project
activities shall take place.
During this period, data collected for the baseline survey was started reaching the selected schools in each of the 3 districts. By the time of this reporting, this is still continuing up to 6th December 2021. Details about baseline survey data collection will be contained in the December 2021 report and the baseline survey report itself.
＜Selected target schools＞
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Mubende
District |
Wakiso
District |
Butambala
District |
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² Christ the King
Nkadwa ² Kabbowa primary
school ² Kasaana Church of
Uganda ² COWADISA primary
school (Kibalinga Sub- County) ² Kategga Primary
School ² Dyangoma Primary
School ² Ikular Primary
school(Kigando Sub- County) ² Kiyiita primary
school ² Kassasa Primary
School Gwanika primary school
(Nabingoola Sub- County) |
² Lwadda Church of
Uganda primary school ² Kitanda Church of
Uganda primary school ² Ssanga Church of
Uganda primary school ² Buwambo Church of
Uganda primary school ² Kirolo UMEA
primary schools ² Kigoogwa Moslem
primary school ² Kitungwa church of
Uganda primary school (Gombe Division) ² Maganjo UMEA
primary school ² Jinja Karoli
primary school 10-Kanyange Mixed primary
school (Nabweru Division) |
² Butalunga Catholic
School ² Butende UMEA ² Kitagobwa Catholic
School ² Lwamasaka UMEA ² Kiwala UMEA
(Ngando Sub- County) ² Nkokoma Catholic
School ² Nawango Church of
Uganda ² Bule UMEA (Bulo
sub-county) ² Ntolomwe UMEA 10-Kayenje Catholic School in
(Gombe Sub- County) |
<Positive influences/ Changes>
The project was welcomed in each of the
targeted districts with high hopes of bring positive changes to girls stay in
schools. It was noted that it would support schools that had bigger enrolment
as well as those that lacked support from other donors.
In Butambala,
the project awakened the need for the district to recruit and employ a female
school inspector. This was observed by the Butambala Chief Administrative
officer who noted" Now you are bringing a female related project, yet we
don’t have any single female in our top district education management... We
shall very soon employ a female school inspector to make sure that we have
someone who can effectively follow up on this MHM project which is a female
related project" The project also created increased awareness about JICA,
GBN and SORAK as important WASH （Water, sanitation and
hygiene）implementing partners.
In Mubende,
from the district inspector of schools mentions that we are glad that we have
for a project that will help to keep girls at school. This play project will be
very helpful especially after long COVID-19 lockdown. Thank you SORAK and also
our partners for this timely support.
In Wakiso,
the deputy CAO welcomed the project team and expresses his love for the
project. He then referred the team to the District Education officer for
guidance. The DEO was more than happy that the project aimed at addressing an
area that was neglected in most of the schools in the country. He guided the team to conduct project
activities in Nabweru and Gombe division all of which are under the supervision
of Nansana municipality. While at
Nansana municipality, we were received by the Municipal Education officer Mr.
Lwanga who was also happy as the rest on knowing what the project was about and
selected the ten schools right away before he introduced us to the Deputy Town
clerk. She was so grateful of the efforts by SORAK and officially welcomed the
project in Nansana Municipality.
All the three district leaders acknowledged how they had always heard about JICA as a very important development partner in many different fields. They got raised hopes that since JICA was the donor to this project, many more other school challenges like lack of enough classroom space, lack of enough latrines/toilets would be provided either by this project or in future support. SORAK was however quick to inform them that this was a pilot project with her scope limited to ensuring the provision /improvement of a girls washroom. It is observed therefore that the district leaders visited are expecting much more from this project than we planned.
<Problems / Challenges>
Ø During the visit to Butamabala, the team found the Chief
Administrative Officer (CAO) busy in another meeting which took long to end.
This was solved by utilizing the time to first of all meet Local Council 5
(District Local Government) Chairperson as they kept waiting for the CAO to conclude
his meeting and meet with them afterwards.
Ø Internet connection in Ngando is very poor which affected real time
reporting with the data collectors who used online questionnaire. Once the
telephone network was available in an area, responses would be submitted
instantly/real time. Real time reporting here means posting questionnaire
answers/after interviewing respondent immediately. Where there is not network
in a locality this cannot be possible. But this was mitigated through audio
recording and later find a spot with good internet and the complete the online
questionnaire.
Ø language barrier because Mubende, the population is made up a
mixture of tribes and Francis one of the project officers is not familiar with
some of the local language for the schools that were visited (Runyakitara)
Communication with girls who do not speak English was difficult. This was
solved by one of the project volunteers who knows such local languages and
would translate for the girls.
Ø In Wakiso the project team was disrupted with rain and slippery
roads and also some appointments were pushed to the next dates, but the team
was patient and had to meet their targets for the respective days.
<Lessons Learnt>
Government is currently worried of working
with NGOs due to increasing terror threats. Some NGOs have political objectives,
and this puts others to disadvantage. It was learnt the government was
currently very sensitive with working with NGOs and this it is always good to
inform the District Local Government and Security for any project
implementation in order to win their support.
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| Focus group discussion with girls Ssanga Primary school Gombe Division Nansana Municipality Wakiso district |
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| Focus group discussion with boys Ikula Primary school Kigando subcounty Mubende district |
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| Briefing pupils of Manganjo UMEA before
questionnaire interviews Nabweru Division, Nansana Municipality |
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| State of toilets Kitanda Primary school Gombe division Nansana Municipality Wakiso district |
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| Focus group discussion girls CAWODISA Primary
school Kibalinga subcounty Mubende district |
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| Key informant Interview with Education officer
Nansana Municipality |
< Comments
from related parties >
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Chief Administrative Officer Butambala
District “It is because of this
project about Mentral Hygine Management that I have just discovered that we
do not have a female inspector of schools in Butamabala district, and I should
ensure that during recruitment the human resource manager should consider
recruiting of females as a priority” |
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Member of Parents and teachers’ association of Kasana C/U primary school. Kibalinga subcounty Mubende district. “Thank you very much for bring this project to our school. This
project will help our girl children get pads to help them and stay safe at
school. We have always asked their mothers to give them pieces of cloth which
they use as pads. These makes them uncomfortable and sometimes get wounds in
their private parts, fail to move properly, and decide to stay at home
washing so many times because they cannot afford pads. They have to keep
washing because they have no pads to use. |
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SORAK Director “SORAK is grateful to having partnered with JICA and GBN. We are
very grateful to having been selected to work with JICA which has always contributed
a lot towards the development of Uganda. All project sites and stakeholders
visited are expecting more support from JICA.” |
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