Uwezo Uganda is partnering with Luigi Giussani Institute of Higher Education (LGIHE) to coordinate the implementation of the Assessment of Life Skills and Values in East Africa (ALiVE) activities in Uganda. ALiVE is a program  of the Regional Education Learning Initiative (RELI) in East Africa, a network of over 70 organisations in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, who are working to support the improvement of learning outcomes for all children.

ALiVE, which focuses on four competencies: Self-awareness, Collaboration, Problem-solving, and Respect, targets both in and out of school adolescents, aged 13 to 17 years, with an aim of;

1. Generating large-scale evidence on life skills and values by developing context-relevant, open- source tools for assessing life skills and values in East Africa, targeting adolescents aged 13 to 17 years, both in and out of school;
2. Raising awareness among policy actors, teachers, parents and young persons by using the evidence to increase attention to the worth of these competences among stakeholders;
3. Strengthening local capacities and amplifying East Africa’s voice through animating a regional community of learning and practice on the methods and measurement of life skills and values, replicable at the national and regional levels for sustainability, and engaging other institutions in the globe working on these.

On 22 - 27^th March 2022, Uwezo Uganda and LGIHE conducted a training of enumerators and a full district pilot in 20 villages/enumeration areas in Buikwe district, in preparation for the actual household-based assessment in August 2022 in 20 districts. The pilot assessment was undertaken by a team of 20 community volunteers from Buikwe district and 10 student teachers from Makerere University, supported by a team of selected trainers and technical team members from Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.