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Goal 1: Expanding and improving comprehensive Early Childhood Care and Education,
especially for most vulnerable and disadvantaged children;
Goal 2: Ensuring that by 2015 all children, particularly girls, children in difficult circumstances
and those belonging to ethnic minorities, have access to, and complete, free and compulsory
Primary Education of good quality;
Goal 3: Ensuring that the learning needs of all young people and adults are met through
equitable access to appropriate learning and life – skills programs;
Goal 4: Achieving a 50% improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2015, especially for
women, and equitable access to basic and continuing education for all adults;
Goal 5: Eliminating gender disparities in Primary and Secondary Education by 2005, and
achieving gender equality in education by 2015, with a focus on ensuring girls’ full and equal
access to and achievement in basic education of good quality; and,
Goal 6: Improving all aspects of the quality of education and ensuring excellence of all so that
recognized and measureable learning outcomes are achieved by all, especially in literacy,
numeracy and essential life skills.
Over the years (2000­2012), Uganda has registered a number of milestones in the education sector
pertaining to the EFA Goals. This report therefore, provides a quantitative measure of the extent to
which Uganda is meeting the Dakar commitments (the six EFA goals) given the fact that only three
and half years are remaining to mark the end of the current EFA programme.
4.5.1 EFA Goal 1: Early Childhood Care & Education (ECCE)
The World Declaration on EFA in Jomtien (1990) introduced the idea that “learning begins at birth”
affirming ECCE as an integral part of basic education and an educational level in its own right. The
target for goal 1 is to ensure expanded and improved comprehensive Early Childhood Care and
Education, especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children. Since 2000, the education
and sports sector has been tracking progress made towards the attainment of this goal using three
indicators (i.e pre­school enrolment, Gross Enrolment Ratio and Net enrolment Ratio).
4.5.1.1 Pre‐school enrolment
Officially, in Uganda children aged 3­5 years are expected to be enrolled in pre­school such that by the
age of six they proceed to primary one. Over the years, there has been a wide gap between the preschool
enrolment and the population aged 3­5 years. Majority of children aged 3‐5 in Uganda do not
access pre­school educational opportunities despite growing access over the years. In 2001/2002, only
59,829 (male 29,589; female 253,039) pupils were enrolled in the pre­primary sub­sector and by 2009/10
the enrolment had multiplied by seven times. In FY 2011/12, the enrolment increased to the turn of
345,295 (male 170,245; female 175,050). The increase in enrolment is mainly attributed to government
efforts in advocating for early childhood development over the last four years.
4.5.1.2 Pre‐primary Net Enrolment Rate
NER reveals the pre­school enrolment gap with respect to age. If all children aged 3­5 years are
enrolled in pre­school, the NER will be 100 percent. Figure 4.33 below shows trends of Net Enrolment
rate in pre­primary in Uganda;
ESSAPR FY 2011/12 to inform the 19 th ESSR – OCTOBER 2012