The two Radio talk shows were hosted on the most popular radio station, Open Gate and the local language(Ligishu) was used. The theme of the programme was Active Citizens in Monitoring Service Delivery. The particpants included Ms Alice Wabule and Mr.Andrew Namunane(UENO) and Mr. Peter Wabuya,  the District secretary for Education, Manafwa District

The Second talk show was hosted on the 17th of June 2011.. The participants Included The Distrcit Education Officer Manafwa,Mr. Zadock Eridard Mudangi, the District Inspector of Schools Mr. Patrick Mabuya and Mr.Namayo Mark of UENO .The theme of the day was; The time to change  is now
It was a call to the members of the community to reflect and change their ways and attitudes as  pertains to the use of public resources specifically in the education sector
 

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The two hour press conference took place at Green Gardens Hotel in Mbale town on the 11th of May 2011. Important to note here  is that while the project is implemented in Manafwa district, on the contrally, the media breakfast was hosted in Mbale district. The reason for this was to capture the attention of all media houses that operate in the eastern region. Additonally Manafwa is one of the districts that has newly been curved out of mainstream Mbale and therefore Mbale still holds a central position in  facilities and admistrative issues

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 Two field visits have been made to each of the sixteen project schools in Manafwa in the period between May and June, the first being from 5th-19th May and second from 10th-21st June.One of the major challenge with the followup meetings has been the long periods that the UENO team has to spend in the field. We are however gratiful that they have access to free accomodation and meals which enables their stay despite the modest allowance of Uganda shillings 100,000 that is paid to them. A schedule is drawn and contacts made early enough with the leadership of the monitoring team and PACO before the UENO team travels

 In her follow up activities, UENO’s intention is to assess the functionality of the school management teams, crosscheck the register that was given to them for recording their activities and taking minutes of the meetings and also do an observation of the general conditions of the services and infrastructures  especially in those schools that are carrying out construction

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