Roughly two out of three Ugandan children enrolled in primary school fail to complete their full primary education cycle.
Furthermore, at least two-thirds of children enrolled in primary school do not complete their full primary education cycle, and a significant gender gap remains.
Starting with education, he's long advocated a broad agenda with stops along the full education life-cycle, from pre-school to community college and beyond.
Significant disparities exist particularly in the three northern regions in regard to access to education or full completion of education cycle.
More than that, with a full education they would help break the poverty cycle and let their families and communities prosper.
Full education for all children cannot be achieved without the education of girls.
In its position paper, the term basic education will include, at a minimum, one year of pre-primary education, the full primary cycle, and lower secondary school.
They know that with a full cycle of education, girls can learn more, earn more, be less at risk of harm and protect themselves from being victims of child marriages.
Girls continue to have difficulty in accessing and remaining in school with only one in five of the small number of girls who begin school in grade one completing a full cycle of primary education.
