Non-Governmental Organization Programmes and Girl Child Education in Uganda. A Case of Church-Founded Secondary Schools in Bushenyi District
1Mwijukye Moses, 2Asuma Marrita Nchaga, and 3Tukur Muhammad
1,2,3Department of Educational Management and Administration, Kampala International University, Uganda
The study examined how Non-Governmental Organization Programmes impact Girl Child Education in Uganda, a Case of Church Founded Secondary Schools in Bushenyi District, among church founded Secondary schools in Bushenyi District. It examined ways how NGO education programs, impact the girl children, established the relationship between NGO’s programs and promotion of the girl child education and found out challenges faced by NGOs programs in lifting girl education. The research employed a descriptive survey study using both quantitative and qualitative data collection techniques among 215 respondents who included vulnerable girl children, church leaders, civil society members, teachers, head teachers parents and guardians using randomly and purposive sampling techniques. Data Analysis was done using SPSS version 14.0 software. Findings indicated a strong, positive connection between NGO education programs and Impact on the girl children (r = .259**, p<.01). This proved that vulnerable girl children, scholastic materials, school fees support had a positive effect on the education attainment levels of vulnerable girl children. Also, findings revealed a strong connection between NGO’s programs and promotion of the girl child education (r = 0.845** P< 0.01). This indicates a favourable relationship and confirms the theory that the promotion of girl child education is greatly impacted by NGO activities since the p-value 0.00 is less than 0.01. The challenges faced by NGOs programs were determined using (r = 0.169** P< 0.01), which means that the two variables are positively related. The p-value of 0.019 is higher than 0.01 indicating that the connection is weak and not significant and the adjusted R Square, as difficulties were encountered in lifting girl education. The study concluded that; there is a relationship between vulnerable girl children, scholastic materials and school fees support which had a positive effect on the education attainment levels of vulnerable girl children, and the theory that the promotion of girl child education is greatly impacted by NGO activities. The study recommended that the Ministry of Internal Affairs, NGO leaders should devise additional ways to involve NGO education programs, the government should encourage NGO’s to design a number of education programs and civil society and other stakeholders should join effort to overcome educational challenges at different levels.
Keywords: Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Programs, Girl Child Education, Church Founded Secondary Schools, Bushenyi District, Educational Challenges
CITE AS: Mwijukye Moses, Asuma Marrita Nchaga and Tukur Muhammad (2025). Non-Governmental Organization Programmes and Girl Child Education in Uganda. A Case of Church-Founded Secondary Schools in Bushenyi District. NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CURRENT RESEARCH IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, 5(1):25-42 https://doi.org/10.59298/NIJCRHSS/2025/5.1.254200