Help a Student Stay in School in Uganda

Working closely with schools and administrators gives us considerable insight into the many issues affecting them and the challenges they face.  From our experience, qualitative research and a simple survey with teachers in all 136 schools, we identified parental involvement as one of the critical issues affecting...

With the Ugandan school term beginning on Jan 31st, we are about to start our second year of implementation.  We finished last year with 4,961 pupils in 81 schools saving just over 5 million shillings. We have many goals for this year!  We hope to increase the number of pupils saving and improve the...

Following the mid-September start of Uganda's third school term, the Super Savers team has just completed the pay out of savings in each of our 81 active schools. During the pay out, all 4,036 participating pupils received their savings and were able to either continue saving or use their money. At this point the...

Having just completed the baseline data collection exercise, we are now scaling the program to 78 new schools! We have a full time team of 11 based in Jinja. At the end of last year we held meetings with headmasters, school management committee members and parent -teacher association chairs. During the break in the...

The Super Savers Program has been met with great enthusiasm and excitement ! Our eight pilot schools have embraced the program and more than 1000 children are currently enrolled and saving. We've conducted two pay-outs, where the bank drove to all eight schools to disperse the children's savings. Schools arranged for a...

As part of its Behavioral Savings Initiative, IPA is currently working on a micro-savings scheme for primary schools in Uganda. Like many developing countries, Uganda has directed significant resources and effort towards achieving Universal Primary Education. Though the country’s UPE policy has been remarkably...