SENSITISE UGANDA Sensitise Uganda proposes to implement project called “Youth civic participation in secondary schools”. The goal of the project is to promote civic engagement and support democratic and participatory good governance for the students to become more responsible andactive citizens as they grow up. Specifically the project seeks to;-
i. To empower students with the political and civic knowledge and capacity to stand as electoral candidates, speech writers, and election observers.
ii. To Provide students the platform to engage in active citizenship through providing the technicalities and issues involved in democratic governance.
iii. To enhance the students’ knowledge and ability to analyze, evaluate, take and defend positions on public issues, and to use their knowledge to participate in civic and political processes.
Civic education will expose students to the nation’s values and constitution, their rights, duties and obligations and how good citizens of a country should be ready to perform their civic responsibilities towards the growth and development of their society and the nation at large.

This project will be implemented in Wakiso district targeting 3 secondary schools that is; one girls’ school and two mixed schools (with both girls and boys) to ensure gender equality. Students with disabilities will be highly encouraged to participate in the project activities to ensure disability inclusion and mainstreaming and no student will be discriminated on basis of gender, sexual orientation, disability among others.

500 students will have participated in civic engagement activities during the project life cycle. The project will enhance the capacity of the girls and students with disabilities to express their views themselves, build their confidence and take up leadership roles.
By the end of the project, there will be increased civic knowledge, civic skills and civic disposition. That is;- students will have understood the workings of the political system and of their own political and civic rights and responsibilities. The students’ ability to analyze, evaluate, take and defend positions on public issues, and to use their knowledge to participate in civic and political processes will have increased. Students’ traits necessary for a democracy will have been built.

These will be achieved through the following activities; a mapping exercise to identify key partners to work with, a project inception meeting, school-based meetings with the school leadership to introduce the project, develop a civic education handbook, launch the civic education handbook, produce a wide range of Civic educationIEC materials, conduct school debate competitions on key public issues, policies and laws, Conduct annual article writing competitions on key public issues, organize and support school guild elections, support students to participate in international day celebrations like International Youth Day, conduct annual sharing and reflection platforms between students, support students to attend the Parliament week, organise and conduct a leadership Camp for the elected student guild leaders, conduct mentorship for students, carryout project monitoring with partners, conduct end of project video documentary, support staff to participate in voice Linking and Learning events.