Sexual Maturation (SM) Management

FAWEU with funding from Rockefeller Foundation undertook a Sexual Maturation Management Project aimed at putting in place interventions that address the management of sexual maturation and the acceleration of literacy, both of which aimed at improving attendance, retention, completion, attainment and achievement in education by girls. This was in a bid to fulfill FAWEU’s Vision of ‘spearheading girls’ education and empowerment in Uganda to bridge the gender gap’; thus ensuring that women are an integral part of the national resource base.

The project was based mainly in five FAWEU pilot districts of Kisoro, Kalangala, Katakwi, Kiboga and Nebbi. Kalangala and Nebbi, which were selected for their low achievement in National Examinations in 1999, and are the districts where the Bridging the rural-urban divide and gender gap in education (BTG) project by FAWEU was piloted (1999 – 2001). Katakwi and Kisoro have wide gender gaps both at primary and secondary levels and have a big number of out-of-school children, especially girls. Kiboga was one of the districts where FAWEU implemented the Life Skills project, and a number of gaps were identified. The project covered a total of 60 primary schools, i.e. 12 primary schools in each of the selected five districts.