PARENTS EDUCATION INVESTMENT SCHEME
Plan today. Keep your child in school
PEIS, the Parents Education Insurance Scheme, helps parents plan, save and pay for their children’s education before school costs become a crisis.
It is a parent-owned and parent-managed savings and planning system. Families work out their education costs, set savings targets, contribute regularly, and prepare for school costs before they are due.
UGX 276M+saved by families
PEIS helps families act before the fee crisis happens.
What is PEIS?
A plan for education, built by parents
the Parents Education Insurance Scheme — is a way for parents to plan, save, and pay for their children’s school costs together — before a fee crisis forces a child out of school.
Parents come together in groups, work out the expected cost of their children’s education, set individual savings targets, and contribute toward those targets over time. The group also keeps an eye on children’s attendance and education needs, so that financial difficulties can be identified before they push a child out of school.
PEIS is designed for families with irregular incomes. It gives them a structured way to turn income earned throughout the year into money that is ready when education costs are due.
PEIS is:
PEIS IS NOT
A loan. Not a grant. Not a scheme that requires donor money to run. It is a structured savings and planning system, owned and managed entirely by the parents who use it.
Since 2022, PEIS groups in Kampala have helped 421 parents save UGX 276 million for their children's school costs, locally using their irregular income.
How PEIS Works
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A group of parents at your child’s school agrees to save together.
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Each family works out exactly how much their child’s education will cost — fees, materials, transport — and sets a saving target.
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Every week or month, each family contributes toward their target. The group holds the savings safely, manages the account, and supports members who fall behind.
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When school fees are due, every family in the group has money ready. On time. Every term.
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The group also watches over the children — checking that every child is attending school, that fees were paid, and that no child is at risk of being sent home.
The goal is simple: families are prepared for education costs, and children stay in school.
PEIS Enterprise
PEIS is a model. PEIS Enterprise makes it a movement.
PEIS Enterprise is the social enterprise arm of IMS — the vehicle through which PEIS is offered as a service to organisations, institutions, and governments that want to implement it in their own communities.
Through PEIS Enterprise, IMS generates sustainable income that funds its own operations — reducing donor dependence while expanding the reach of PEIS to communities and countries beyond IMS’s direct programme.
Services Offered Through PEIS Enterprise
Who PEIS Enterprise Serves
- NGOs and civil society organisations running education or savings group programmes who want to add PEIS as an education-specific financing product
- VSLA programmes wanting to add PEIS as a dedicated education financing layer on top of their existing group structure
- Education sponsorship organisations wanting to transition sponsored families toward PEIS as a sustainable post-sponsorship financing model
- Government ministries and district education offices wanting to embed PEIS or SUCCESS in school policy, national education financing strategies, or district plans
- International NGOs and development partners designing community-level education financing programmes
- Schools and school management committees wanting to support parent savings groups within their school community
Pricing & Partnership
PEIS Enterprise services are priced on a cost-recovery basis — reflecting the actual investment required to deliver quality implementation support. We offer concessional rates for small NGOs and community-based organisations working in low-resource contexts. Income generated is re-invested in furthering IMS’s mission of ending school dropout and ensuring every child access education, stay and succeed in school.
Contact us to discuss your context and what PEIS Enterprise can offer you: fredrick@imsuganda.org
Implement PEIS
If you are an organisation, government, or community group interested in implementing PEIS, this is where you start.
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Contact IMS to describe your context — community size, existing savings group activity, school environment, and target population.
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IMS conducts a brief context assessment to identify the right implementation approach for your setting.
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We agree on a partnership model — direct implementation support, Training of Trainers, or a full PEIS Enterprise licence.
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Implementation begins, with IMS providing training, tools, and fidelity support throughout the first cycle.