NACC Leadership Biography
Hadijah Nandyose
Hadijah Nandyose is a graduate with experience of 8 years working with grass root projects in Uganda to support educational activities with a bias in non formal education and work experience implementing projects for early childhood, primary and adult non-formal education. Her career in Education started in 1994 as a part time school teacher while still an undergraduate student and later on transferred to the NGO sector as Education Officer supporting the design and implementation of educational activities for the children and wives of disabled soldiers a program that was supported by the Uganda Ministry of Defense. In 2001, she joined Save the Children with the major responsibility of training and supporting the roll out and implementation of a parent education program that aimed at fostering participation of parents and other community members in development initiatives especially linked to education. Her role expanded in 2002 to include support for Non Formal Primary Education and Early Childhood Development (ECD) projects as she took on the position of Education Co-ordinator a post she still holds to date. The ECD project designed to target 4 - 7 year olds has a strong emphasis and promotes reading for children, safe spaces for play and outdoor activities that ultimately aim at increasing stimulation and readiness to start school for these children. The Non Formal Primary project reaches out to children missing out on the formal sector especially in rural setting with high HIV/AIDS prevalence, resource constraints and limited or no education services providing an opportunity for them to access primary education. As departmental head she is also charged with capacity building of partners, project staff, community volunteers and facilitators for the learning centers in this area.
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