Uganda - School facilities and challenges in construction

Uganda suffers from substantial school infrastructuregaps, which need to be addressed to better serve the student population. Due to ambitious goals for the education system and rapid population growth, the number of children in primary and secondary school isexpected to nearly double overall by 2025 versus the size of the education system a dozen years earlier. This dramatic expansion will require building new schools apart from improving/expanding existing ones.This note focuses on two topics related to schoolinfrastructure and construction. The first part of the note provides a rapid diagnostic of the state of school infrastructure today in Uganda. The second part of the note discusses implementation challenges in school construction by looking at the lessons that can be learned from the experience of the Universal Post Primary Education and Training (UPPET) Adaptable ProgramLending 1 (APL 1) Project, in terms of the selection of the schools for investments and design as well as procurement challenges, costs and delays.