IMPACT DASHBOARD
Transparent data. Proven results. Shared learning.
Since 2022, GRiD has worked alongside schools, households, community leaders, and young people to strengthen education outcomes, household resilience, gender inclusion, and community participation across Eastern Uganda.
This dashboard presents cumulative implementation results, community reach, and learning insights gathered across GRiD’s core program areas between 2022 and 2025.
Why community led development still matters
Millions of children and vulnerable households across Uganda continue to face barriers linked to poverty, weak local systems, gender inequality, and limited access to practical opportunities.
Without strong community participation and locally rooted support systems, these challenges contribute to:
- low school retention,
- persistent gender vulnerabilities,
- weak engagement in local development processes,
- and limited economic resilience for families.
GRiD’s approach responds to these interconnected realities by strengthening community ownership, practical learning, and long-term resilience.
Strengthening systems through community action
GRiD applies a community-first implementation model grounded in participation, local leadership, and adaptive learning.
Rather than creating parallel structures, programs are delivered through schools, households, community networks, and local leadership systems that already exist within communities.
Approach pillars
Mobilising Communities
Engaging local leaders, caregivers, youth, and community structures through dialogue and collective participation.
Transforming Behaviour
Facilitating awareness activities, grassroots dialogue, and practical learning that encourage informed decision-making and social change.
Strengthening Livelihoods
Supporting households with savings practices, enterprise skills, and resilience-building approaches.
Advancing Girl-Child Education
Promoting menstrual health, reusable pad skills, and adolescent wellbeing to support girls’ participation in education.
Building Local Institutions
Strengthening schools, governance structures, and community systems through guidance, facilitation, and technical support.
How change happens
GRiD’s implementation model connects community participation with long-term systems strengthening and sustainable local ownership.
Inputs → Activities → Outputs → Outcomes → Long-Term Change
Impact pathway
Inputs
Funding, partnerships, volunteers, and local community support
Activities
Mobilisation, dialogue, training, mentorship, and school/
community engagement
Outputs
Learners reached, households supported, schools engaged, and community members trained
Outcomes
Improved wellbeing, stronger participation, enhanced resilience, and strengthened local systems
Long-term change
Communities increasingly capable of sustaining and driving their own development priorities
PROGRAM REACH
Results at a glance
The figures below reflect cumulative implementation results across GRiD’s education, menstrual health, livelihoods, and community governance programs between 2022 and 2025.
Supporting learners beyond the classroom
Through sustained engagement with 15 schools, GRiD supported 3,200 learners through literacy support, mentorship, and youth leadership activities.
Early implementation results indicate stronger participation in learning activities and increased confidence, teamwork, and civic awareness among young people participating in leadership initiatives.
Capacity-building efforts involving 210 teachers and school leaders contributed to more inclusive learning environments and strengthened school-level leadership systems.
Focus areas
- Literacy support
- Youth leadership development
- Teacher capacity strengthening
- Mentorship and participation
Restoring dignity and supporting girls’ education
GRiD reached 1,280 adolescent girls through menstrual health and adolescent wellbeing education, contributing to increased confidence, awareness, and openness around menstruation and reproductive health.
Community engagement involving parents, guardians, teachers, and local trainers strengthened support systems around girls both at school and within households.
In 2026, 399 learners were additionally trained in reusable pad production skills to strengthen sustainability and dignity-centered participation.
Focus areas
- Menstrual hygiene management
- Adolescent Well-Being Awareness
- Reduction of menstruation-related absenteeism
- Reusable pad skills training
Strengthening household stability and economic resilience
GRiD supported 620 households through savings initiatives, livelihood activities, and resilience-building approaches that strengthen household stability and economic participation.
Support to 41 savings groups strengthened collective accountability and peer learning, while 85 women acquired practical income-generating skills to diversify household livelihoods.
Participants continue to report increased confidence in saving, planning, and investing in small-scale economic activities that support family wellbeing.
Focus areas
- VSLA strengthening
- Enterprise development
- Savings and financial discipline
Household resilience
Building participation, accountability, and collective action
Since 2022, GRiD has engaged more than 4,200 community members across 80 communities through structured governance dialogues and participatory learning processes.
Training of 40 community champions strengthened local facilitation and leadership capacity, enabling communities to engage more constructively with local institutions and collective problem-solving processes.
Through 44 dialogue sessions, communities demonstrated stronger participation in advocacy, accountability, and locally led development action.
Focus areas
- Community dialogue platforms
- Local accountability
- Civic awareness
- Community-led problem solving
Building stronger community voices
Communities thrive when people have a voice, leaders listen, and decisions are made together.
Growth through community learning
2022
- 1,013 people reached
- 10 communities engaged
- Foundations established for community-led education improvement
2023
- 864 people engaged
- 180 girls sensitised on menstrual health
- Expansion into 3 new districts
2024
- 497 dialogue participants engaged
- UGX 9,307,000 mobilised locally for school infrastructure
- Borehole repaired, restoring water access to 1,034 pupils
2025
- 402 parents and teachers sensitised
- 300+ guardians involved in adolescent wellbeing support
- 5 schools supported through menstrual health initiatives
2026 (Current progress)
- 399 learners trained in reusable pad production
- 10 teachers involved
- 5 schools supported
Stories behind the numbers
“Now I stay in class with confidence”
Amina (14) previously missed several days of school each month due to menstruation-related challenges. After participating in GRiD’s menstrual health activities, her attendance improved significantly, and she now serves as a class leader at her school.
“For the first time, I could pay school fees without borrowing”
Maria, a mother of four, joined a GRiD-supported savings group and later started a small poultry business. Today, she contributes to school fees and encourages other women in her community to participate in collective savings initiatives.
“From dialogue to collective action”
Following a series of facilitated community dialogues, residents in Sunni village formed a local development committee that now champions education and water initiatives through collective community action.
What we’re learning
Community participation improves ownership
Programs designed alongside communities achieve stronger local engagement and sustainability
Girls’ retention improves with family support
Parent and caregiver engagement strengthens girls’ participation and continuity in education
Savings groups strengthen resilience
Collective financial approaches improve household planning and long-term stability
Help strengthen community-led change
GRiD’s model demonstrates that locally rooted, low-cost approaches can strengthen education, dignity, resilience, and participation across communities.
With the right partnerships, these models can expand to reach more schools, households, and underserved communities across Uganda.
