Vocational Education Project The project will construct additional classrooms, workshops and laboratories for the purposes of increasing school enrollment provide training for teaching and technical staff at all levels, develop new technical education curricula, and provide textbooks and instructional materials. The selected course/trade to be provided in each district is expected to respond to the practical skills requirements of the local communities/districts. Every technical institute will offer six out of the following ten courses/trades, namely, Building and Concrete Practise, Carpentry and Joinery, Electrical Installation and Electronics, Metal Fabrication and Welding, Agriculture, Motor Vehicle Mechanics, Plumbing/Pipe Fitting, Painting and Decoration, Home Economics and Tailoring and Petroleum Technology. These measures would improve on the level of instruction at the nation's technical colleges and ensure the production of graduates that would respond to the social-economic development requirement of Uganda.

The output of the VEP would be achieved through the implementation of the following components and the associated project activities:

i). Design & Supervision Services, covering the consultancy costs to prepare architectural and engineering drawings (structural, electrical, etc) and technical site supervision services, after the award of the contracts for works and supplies.

ii). Civil Works, covering the provision of new facilities in the nine new technical institutions, each site with: 18 classrooms, 6 workshops, each with relevant working space for 30 trainees in the trade, 1 administration block with a sizeable store room, One 2-bedroomed house for the principal, 18 units of 3-roomed houses for instructors, 18 units of 2-roomed houses for non-teaching staff, 1 multi-purpose hall (to serve as dinning hall, recreation, etc), 1 multi-purpose science room, 1 library block with seating capacity of 120 students and an ICT room, 6 dormitories, each with capacity to accommodate 100 trainees, 27 toilet stances, 1 solar power system/set as alternative form of energy, 1 rain water harvester PVC tank of 10,000 liters, 1 manual borehole, General works (landscaping, fencing, sports fields, etc), 1 Sickbay, 1 drawing room, sports facilities.

iii). Purchase & Installation of Equipment, Supply of Equipment and Tools would involve furniture for all the new facilities listed in the Civil Works Component. The Workshop equipment and tools would cover the six major courses identified under the project. Others include supply of equipment for the multi-purpose science room equipment/kits, reference textbooks for all the courses, Computers and appliances for trainees and for the instructor, 30-seater institute bus, tractors with plough trailers, sports and drawing room equipment.

iv). Training & Technical Assistance that would focus on capacity building, institutional management and the inclusion of information and communications technology program relevant to Technical and Vocation Education Institutions. Under staff training, the project provides for workshops and seminars, short courses in specific areas and long-term courses.

v). Project Coordination and Management. The financing of the component would provide necessary support for the effective implementation of the project through the Ministry of Education and Sports and other partner institutions. These project activities include: (i). the salaries of seconded staff and other activity allowances, (ii). external and local travel costs, (iii). telecommunications and postage, (iv). project coordination office costs, (v). equipment running costs and maintenance, (vi). stationery, and (vii). purchase of 2 four-wheel type vehicles for project co-ordination, and project audit services.