Client and Partners: Ugandan Ministry of Education and Sports, Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit, DFID

Description: DFID is partnering with the Prime Ministers Delivery Unit (PMDU) and the Ugandan Ministry of Education and Sports (MOES), to increase teacher attendance in primary schools across the country. PMDU is piloting the data collection component of the project to gather daily and weekly attendance data from primary schools. The validation exercise leveraged electronic data to externally verify the hard copy attendance records submitted by schools to the PMDU through District Education Offices. The project utilized mobile phones and a mobile application to gather information from primary schools in 22 pilot districts. Following a success pilot, the intervention will be scaled to additional districts in the country. The intervention is intended to inform teacher motivation strategies and encourage teacher accountability and time on task.

Ichuli’s role in the project was to manage the data collection process across 2,000 schools and 23,000 teachers in 22 districts in eastern Uganda as part of the independent data verification system. Ichuli reviewed the data collection technology to ensure it was user-friendly and appropriate; mapped the schools and languages within each school community; identified, trained and monitored enumerators; managed the data collection system and synthesized a GPS and vector map of school locations, school and teacher lists and databases, developed an interactive data management and reporting dashboard, and a produced a final report with subsequent recommendations for scaling the system across the country and informing improvements to government data collection and monitoring systems for teachers and schools.