The Gender and Vulnerable groups function is a key in ensuring that the initiative is gender sensitive, supports, and includes the most vulnerable groups such as: lower-income youth, refugees, women, and PWDs. The Uganda eLearning Initiative will pay special attention to resolving the learning challenges of PWDs by providing special assistive devices, sign language integration, mentorships, internships, and instructor skilling on social-emotional learning (SEL). The Initiative will set them up to thrive by supporting efforts to improve the quality of education and building workforce readiness skills. The Initiative seeks to increase access by:

• Providing assistive devices to PWDs, who constitute 12.4% of the Ugandan population;
• Enhancing safe spaces and Psycho-Social Support (PSS)/SEL for refugees, PWDs, and vulnerable populations;
• Increasing sign language integration into 20 courses for the deaf and hard of hearing persons;
• Increasing awareness for employers, EIs, Public Sector, and Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies for gender mainstreaming for the world of work.