Education Grants | Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development

The overall sector objective is to provide for, support, guide, coordinate, regulate and promote quality in delivery of Education and Sports to all persons in Uganda for national integration, individual and national development.

To read the Official guidelines on the Education Grants click here!

The purpose of the sector grants are:

To pay salaries of education staff in primary, secondary, tertiary and vocational institutions
To fund operational costs of running primary, secondary, tertiary and vocational institutions
To fund maintenance of school facilities
To facilitate inspection, monitoring and support supervision of all institutions
To facilitate measures to improve learning outcomes and attract more learners
To finance sports activities
To finance capital development and maintenance works of primary and secondary schools

In line with the Inter-governmental Fiscal Transfer Reform Programme, allocations to Local Government are formula based. The Education Grants are split into Wage, Non Wage and Development components. This creates the nine subgrants you can explore below: