Counterpart 502094 LABE, Literacy and Ad Adult and child education:
The project will work with parents to improve their  parenting skills including approaches to nutrition,child care, HIV/AIDS and Sexual Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR), gender issues and how to communicate with young people on these issues.Learning will take place in home learning centres located within the communities. Each of the 60 centres will be equipped with learning materials (in mother tongue), such as CD ROM materials and booklets, black board, chalk and solar lamps. The centre will be used by parents as their literacy class and as well as Early Childhood Care and Education centres (ECCE) under the care of parenteducators. Children will be supported to develop their own magazines. There will be sharing of experiences with the emerging UgandaMultilingual Education forum.

Promoting school clubs activities including; information boards, debating, quiz competitions, group discussions, guidance and counseling on HIV/AIDS, SRHR and Gender (sex and sexuality, sexual harassment, body changes, personal hygiene, unequal distribution of household chores.

Open learning activities at community level for parents and other community members staged by school clubs through drama, songs and poems on HIV/AIDS, SRHR and Gender issues

Campaigning and advocacy
Campaigns for mother tongue education in schools will be run.
Districts will be supported to observe International Mother Tongue Day where children and parents will demonstrate their reading and writing skills. The project will  will launch an advocacy campaign to lobby the ministry of education for changes in the professional training of in-service teachers to include developing teachers skills in using affordable new communication technologies for education. This will involve working with other actors in this field and present cases ofbest practices.

Parent educators and parents to hold weekly 30 minute radio discussions for the first three months of the project on a local FM radio highlighting the importance ofhome based ECCE, HIV/AIDS, SRHR and Gender issues

Link up with health centers, district health department, schools, religious institutions and hold community  school level sensitization meetings/workshops for parents and community members on HIV/AIDS, SRHR, and Gender awareness issues

Training and documentation
Recruiting and training of  parent educators (instruction on  the  management of home learning centers  and  on HIV/AIDS, SRHR and gender awareness issues
Training of CCTs in managing teachers website-based learning materials and in turn train teachers selected from 30 schools in on line teachers forum. The process will be facilitated by use of computers purchased and placed in each of the coordinating centers .Each centre will have at least 4 computers and a printer powered by a generator and external internet modem. A professional learning technologist will be hired to upload and maintain information on the website as well as offering technical support to coordinating centres. OfflineCD ROMs will be developed and used in case of break down in internet. The materials will be based on the Mother tongue Sourcebook- initially developed by the quality educators project- another project of ON and Ugandan partners

Produce and disseminate picture story books and other materials  such as DVD players, posters, fact sheets, comic booklets, CD Rom games and videos on HIV/AIDS, SRHR, Gender) to home learning centers. The story books will be written by teachers in consultation with language board members

Development and distribution of resource packs on home based  and community based ECCE for parent educators (including information on HIV/AIDS, SRHR and Gender awareness issues).