Putting the power into teachers’ hands to teach effectively and improve children’s learning.
Power Teachers Africa is a Ugandan not-for-profit organization that provides cost-effective teacher
motivation focused support to government schools across Africa to address teacher absenteeism, teacher retention, and
improve learning outcomes. We also offer education services to support this work.
We believe that teachers are THE key to addressing the learning crisis across Sub-Saharan Africa,
in which 9 out 10 children aged ten are unable to read a simple text.
(World Bank,2023).
We believe that the elephant in the classroom, teacher absenteeism, is a key reason for the learning crisis.
Motivated and empowered teachers providing high quality education for all children across Africa.
Everything we do is driven by our motto – “Teachers matter. Teacher Motivation Matters. Teachers are THE key
Develop a cadre of Power Teachers who use their power to transform lives through improving their students’ learning.
We have begun work with the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) Uganda.
We are currently developing a low-cost administration light mobile phone based incentive and
professional development App, which we will use to incentivise teachers intrinsically and financially:
- to teach all their classes every day,
- to improve learning outcomes, and
- to complete professional development activities.
The technology tools will develop teachers’ capacities to use evidence based teaching practices that improve learning outcomes, as well as motivate them to teach all their classes effectively. The App will include a suite of MoES approved digital teaching courses. Once the App has been developed, refined and finalised, we will use the Power Teachers model to work with the headteachers and all the teachers in selected government schools, as well as district inspectors and in-service teacher educators.
To inform the refining of our model and the development of the App, in February 2025, we begun piloting our Power Teachers for Learning model in a primary school in Eastern Uganda, working with 31 teachers (21 female), 1,777 children (1,020 girls), headteacher, parents, community members, district and MoES officials. Learn more here. In early March 2025, UWEZO Uganda conducted a baseline learning survey.
Power Teachers Africa is partnering with Simba Wolfhounds, a voluntary Ugandan organization, and the first official Gaelic [Irish] Athletics Association (GAA) registered club in Africa. The initiative equips teachers with skills to deliver structured physical education and develop children’s 21st-century life skills — including cooperation, well-being, and resilience — through Gaelic Football and handball.
The programme will work with schools and train trains teachers to coach these sports, supporting them with monthly financial incentives to sustain and grow the impact.
We provide teacher focused services for a variety of clients across all aspects of teacher support, such as professional development, teacher management systems, pre-service, gender, climate change education, inclusion, teachers in crisis settings, and retention, with our team having extensive expertise and experience in all areas concerning teachers and teaching and learning.
We offer education consultancy services in all areas of education. We have dozens of consultants on our database, who are the best proven Education development consultants across Africa with hundreds of years’ experience in all thematic areas of Education and international development, as well as monitoring and evaluation, project management, research, training, and facilitation.
Meet Our Team
Board of Directors
Our Team
Dr Emmanuel Khabusi Kamuli
Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Power Teachers Africa
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