Uganda. Ministry of Education and Sports

This module provides basic information needed for self help or support to other people within the Education sector.

This handbook has been developed to guide teachers to improve both their personal mental wellbeing and that of other people within the learning institutions especially learners to use the wellbeing booklets to build their life skills.

The main objective of the MHPSS training manual is to standardize all efforts to build the capacity of school staff in integration of mental health and psychosocial support including early identification, offering appropriate basic support and linkage to other specialized service providers.

The Menstrual Health (MH) guidelines are intended to aid provision of a supportive school environment that will provide comfort while at school during menstruation, improve school performance, reduce absenteeism and dropout rates attributable to menstruation.

Activity Handbook geared towards school community members on building a positive school climate and preventing school-related gender-based violence. The Handbook provides an opportunity to directly involve community members in achieving this goal.

Activity Handbook geared towards teacher patrons to work with primary-age students on building a positive school climate and preventing school-related gender-based violence. It supports primary school teams for pupils called the Uganda Kids Unite or ‘UKU’ program.

This guide for the facilitator takes training participants (teachers) through the Journeys Activity Handbook for Teachers and School Staff. Journeys uses an empathetic approach to inspire change towards creating positive and supportive schools that are free from violence in any form.

The overall purpose of the guidelines is to support prevention and management of teenage pregnancy in school settings, making reference to the Draft National School Health Policy and Sexuality Education Framework, and specifically to:

The Three Star Approach provides step-wise guidance for schools to make gradual improvements towards reaching national WASH in School (WinS) standards.

Uganda is among the countries with the highest rates of new HIV infections in Sub-Saharan Africa where young people aged 15-24 accounts for 60% of the 83,000 new infections.