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BUKOTO PRIMARY SCHOOL NAKASEKE PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR FUNDING
Name of organization
Title of Proposed Project
Amount Needed
Location of
Implementation
Point of Contact, Phone,
Address
FRIENDS CENTRE
Bukoto Primary School Nakaseke Project proposal for funding
Ugx 420m al IS
The Head: Mr. Mutesasira Eddie Alinah
Tel: +27784434677/+256708901881
Email: info@gfcoorg.org
BUKOTO PRIMARY SCHOOL NAKASEKE PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR FUNDING
One of the rooms being used as a classroom.
EXECUTIVE SUMMERY
Bukoto Primary School Education project proposal is a project in association with Friends Centre. The thrust of the Friends Centre is to assist the school in putting up infrastructure and learning materials. Friends Centre is an organization founded to support innovative community initiatives that promote education, health and entrepreneurship especially, among people.
Friends Centre’s main concern is the realization of sustainable development in which the children, teachers and the community are involved in positive activities that will ensure socio-economic welfare in the entire locality and ensure a proper learning environment by providing habitable accommodation. The vision of Friends Centre is peaceful coexistence and development in which everyone participates equally and effectively in problem and solution identification and where local communities, governments and other developmental bodies facilitate and carry out skills transfer to the younger generation who are not fortunate enough to be afforded or even to go to school.
Friends Centre has furthermore succeeded to hold successful meetings with the School authorities and community Heads to forge an understanding of our vision and goals. We made sure that there is community ownership of the project. There is a need to involve everyone and have a buy-in of the project. The local community and leadership have been supportive and are doing their part by molding bricks, and providing other materials like river sand, stones and labor.
To realize its goals, Friends Centre has agreed to assist in mobilizing resources to build seven classrooms to since the school has no proper classrooms but rather someone’s residential house. The construction cost will require Ugx 420m for the entire project.
Friends Centre’s main objective is to create community capacity to provide education and health infrastructure, with particular outreach to the most vulnerable in communities.
Developments do not come to these remote parts of Uganda easily. The major constraint for children and parents is that most nearby primary schools are between walking distances of 5 and 10 km or 2 and 4 hours respectively. The school pass rate has been unsatisfactory due various reasons.
Friends Centre has taken the initiative to change thÉ situation and is now approaching organizations to improve the conditions for children fining primary schools in the community.
The Friends Centre’s strategy is to construct a blod( consisting of seven classes for the primary School in Kalisizo for both boys and girls. Implementation will include construction, provision of teaching materials, such as textbooks for all subje&, and dean and safe drinking water and there will be two phases of the project.
In phase (1) of the project, Friends Centre will seven classrooms, which will have one door and eight windows each and will be 27 metres long and six metres wide. The walls and the floor will be made from locally baked bricks; the doors and windows of metal and the roof of iron sheets. There will also be a need to construct a staff room, six toileG and two staff houses. Once construction work is completed, classrooms will be fitted with chairs in phase two of the project to prepare the school to start operating leaning and teaching activities.
Project rationale
Developments do not come to these remote parts of Uganda easily. The major constraint for children and parents is that most nearby primary schools are between walking distances of 5 and 10 km or 2 and 4 hours respectively. The school pass rate has been unsatisfactory due various reasons.
Friends Centre has taken the initiative to change thÉ situation and is now approaching organizations to improve the conditions for children fining primary schools in the community.
The Friends Centre’s strategy is to construct a blod( consisting of seven classes for the primary School in Kalisizo for both boys and girls. Implementation will include construction, provision of teaching materials, such as textbooks for all subje&, and dean and safe drinking water and there will be two phases of the project.
In phase (1) of the project, Friends Centre will seven classrooms, which will have one door and eight windows each and will be 27 metres long and six metres wide. The walls and the floor will be made from locally baked bricks; the doors and windows of metal and the roof of iron sheets. There will also be a need to construct a staff room, six toileG and two staff houses. Once construction work is completed, classrooms will be fitted with chairs in phase two of the project to prepare the school to start operating leaning and teaching activities.
Problem Statement
The school is located in Kalisizo, Bukoto Kamuli, Nakaseke district, about 60 km. from Kampala. The major problem is the economic problems bedeälling the community. The community, which is predominantly peasantry, therefore, finds it extremely difficult to pay the school fees per term. In essence, it means the little levies paid cannot sustain capital projects as even the Government is failing to give infrastructure grants due to liquidity problems in the economy.
The objectives:
To construct one block for a primary school for Bukoto Primary school, Kamuli , Nakaseke Uganda with a population of about 300 primary school-going children to provide quality 
education.
Strategies Of Implementation
The project was proposed through a series of discussions with the local communities, a review of baseline data, and minutes of the Friends Centre’s meetings.
At the initial start of the school project, Friends Centre will construct 7- classrooms, 6 toilets, a staff room and 2 staff houses, and also equip the school gradually with teaching materials, such as textbooks and a supply of water. Friends Centre is also planning to electrify the school and dig a borehole as a water supply for the school.
Phase 1
Construction of 7 classrooms and staff houses will commence as soon as funds are availed. This will be followed by the construction of storage tanks for rainwater collection. At the end of the project, the last act will be the buying of desks and essential textbooks.
Installation of a 5,000-litre borehole water collection plastic tank is at an advanced stage and the purchase of desks will be done to enable the school to start operating in the second budget of phase two of the project. The school will admit 300 students over four classes
Friends Centre has engaged the expertise of local builders and other laborers to carry out the actual work. The Head and her Deputy will prepare all the necessary’ reports including the financial reports and submit them to the Executive Committee of Friends Centre as was agreed upon.
Friends Centre will invite the donor representatives and members of the government to carry out their independent evaluation after the completion of the project. The Friends Centre executive will conduct continuous monitoring of the project and representatives from the government or potential sponsor to ensure that the project achieves its goals and objectives as set out in this proposal.
Expected Results
· Quality education for 300 students delivered through the creation of student friendly learning spaces.
Improved standards of life among teaching staff at Bukoto Primary school. Increased enrolments of up to 500 students and enhancement of habitable classrooms
Deliverable
The Secretary of the Friends Centre will deliver both technical and financial reports each month to the funding agency. This will include details of the class attendance by leaders and teachers, lessons taught, material purchased, challenges faced, achievements realized, money spent and community support.
Project Beneficiaries
The school facilities aim to give seMces to 300 primary school studenG from Bukoto and surrounding villages such as Kamuli, Kiwoko etc.
Monitoring and Evaluation
Avariety of formal and informal Monitoring and Evaluation mechanisms will be
central to ensuring the appropriate delivery of effusive and sustainable senses.
These will include Multi-Indicator Cluster
Surveys, class performance surveys, class attendance data, girl-boy retention
data and exit surveys.
Project sustainability
Friends Centre will continue to work with the local Council and Ministry of education and Sports in this capacity while also working closely with other NGOs working on education programmes in the area. MOSA will develop a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Education and Sports, which will clarify each partner’s roles and responsibilities in both the short and long term. The Ministry of education will be encouraged to provide staff for the school and facilitate other necessities like textbooks required by the learners’ library. The Friends Centre will invest heavily in staff training at all levels. In this way, sustainable structures for primary school education delivery will be developed Bukoto village.
Friends Centre will work with local communities to develop the capacity of individuals to play an active role in the governance and delivery of education in primary schools. Parents – Teachers Association (PTA) will be formed to ensure the school’s future sustainability. Friends Centre’s annual sustainability assessment will be used to review the capacity of both local communities and the school to take on further aspects of supporting the school after the donor phase Friends Centre will continue to provide its technical support and facilitation.
Collaboration
Friends Centre will collaborate and network with the local community, community leaders, Development partners and the Movement of Uganda.
Friends Centre’s Capacity
Friends Centre has the required capacity necessary to design interventions and at the same time give impetus to the program’s management. The organization constantly plans before engaging in project activities and other interventions. Its recognition by the local communities and School authorities has further placed us on a strategic footing to replicate ourselves in the affairs of the school. We have a policy of noninterference in the school administration and our role is to assist where possible. There is a high potential that this achievement will be replicated in the community and Rakai district as a whole.
BUDGET PROPOSAL
Our budget proposal is based on materials required to put up the classroom blocks for Bukoto primary school and other necessary facilities such as toilet
Friends Centre has systems in place for governance and financial accountability.
BUKOTO PRIMARY SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION PROJECT
Conclusion
Friends Centre will adopt the policy of corporate good governance throughout the implementation process of this project. This will ensure accountability and transparency in the management of resources.
Some of the learners who study at the school with the team leaders from Friends Centre.
