What We Do
Our focus Areas
IMS’s 2025–2029 Strategic Plan organises our work into four Strategic Focus Areas — each addressing a distinct dimension of school dropout, together forming a continuum from early prevention to recovery to systemic change.
GuardED
The most effective response to school dropout is one that happens before the dropout does.GuardED is IMS’s school-level prevention work
SaveForward
School dropout is not only a poverty problem. It is a planning problem. Families in Uganda’s urban informal settlements often earn enough across a year to pay their children’s school fees
BackInClass
For children and young people who have already left school — whether last term or several years ago — BackInClass creates structured pathways back.
LeadTheShift
Models only matter if they spread. Evidence only matters if it reaches decision-makers.LeadTheShift is IMS’s work to build a high-performing organisation.