The Katerera County Education Forum (KACEF) is transforming education in Katerera County through its Annual Education Days, a platform that brings together over 50 schools and all education stakeholders to address challenges and celebrate excellence.
The forum established Katerera County Annual Education Days with seven key aims:
1. To Improve Academic Performance: To discuss performance in PLE, UCE and UACE and to reward best-performing schools, teachers and learners as a motivation.
2. To Bring All Stakeholders Together: To create a common platform for parents, teachers, learners, local leaders, the District Education Officer, Members of Parliament, the RDC, foundation bodies and NGOs.
3. To Promote Parental Responsibility: To remind parents of their roles in school fees, feeding, scholastic materials and guidance, and to fight school dropouts, early marriages and child labour.
4. To Promote Education as a Key to Development: To sensitize the community that education is the way out of poverty and to encourage children to stay in school.
5. Career Guidance and Inspiration: To invite successful role models from Katerera to inspire learners and guide S.4 and S.6 leavers on their next steps.
6. To Address Local Education Challenges: To tackle issues such as teacher absenteeism, understaffing, poor infrastructure and teenage pregnancies, and develop action plans.
7. To Promote Skills for Development: To enable schools to showcase skills acquired under the Competence-Based Curriculum (CBC).
Journey So Far:
1st Edition – 29th December 2022: Launch of the Education Day at Katerera Playground under the theme _”Nkwataho Nanye Mbe nkiiwe“_. Chief Guest was Hon. John Twesigye Ntamuhiira, then MP Bunyaruguru County and and former Chairperson of the Education Committee in the 11th Parliament.
2nd Edition: Held at Katerera All Saints Church under the theme _”Developing Open Science Mindset”_. Chief Guest was Educationist, Director Mushangye Charles.
3rd Edition: Held at Katerera Playground under the theme _”Preparing Learners for Social Transformation”_. Chief Guest was Dr. Jude Thaddeo Mugarura, Senior Lecturer at Makerere University.
4th Edition: Held at Kirugu Secondary School under the theme _”The Role of Stakeholders in Education Enhancement”_. Chief Guest was Dr. Andrew Ainomugisha, then Vice Chancellor of Ankole Western University. Other speakers included Mr. Reuben Kategangwa, Principal Communications Officer at Kyambogo University, and Rev. Fr. Diido, Education Supervisor for Mbarara Archdiocese.
5th Edition: Held at Archbishop Bakyenga Vocational Secondary School under the theme _”Skills for Development and Livelihood: Preparing the Youth for Uganda’s Transformation”_. Chief Guest was Hon. Atwijukire Boaz, MP Katerera County, with Keynote Speaker Dr. Wilfred Nahamya, Deputy Executive Secretary of UVTAB and the function brought all education stakeholders over 3,000 in attendance.
The next 6th Edition Katerera County Annual Education Day is scheduled for July 2027 and will be hosted in Katanda Subcounty expected targeting atleast 10,000 attendees.
For details and inquiries, contact Mr. Mushemeza Genius (CEO) on +256 705 118762.
CEO Mr Mushemeza Genius.
