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This is the monthly update of the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Learning Platform published in June 2022.
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The situation of children in Uganda calls for renewed and urgent action. This National Child Policy Implementation Plan (2020/2021-2024/2025) provides a roadmap and a common agenda of action to operationalise the National Child Policy (2020). It is intended to be concise and over-arching; with emphasis on priority actions to achieve the specific policy objectives across health and survival, education and development, child care and protection and…
This National Child Policy has been developed to coordinate the efforts of the different sectors that have a direct and indirect mandate on children and deliver a comprehensive package of services encompassing all the four cardinal rights of the child in a multi-sectoral approach. This policy draws its context from the existing international, regional and national instruments and frameworks that support the realization of the rights and welfare of children. One of the priority areas of this policy is children's care and protection.
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This National Child Policy of Uganda has been developed to coordinate the efforts of the different sectors that have a direct and indirect mandate on children and deliver a comprehensive package of services encompassing all the four cardinal rights of the child (to survival, development, protection and participation) in a multi-sectoral approach.
The National Child Policy development process identified five core priority areas that have informed the Policy objectives, strategies and interventions. The four priority areas are hinged on four cardinal rights of a child:…
This harmonised Case Management (CM) toolkit includes standard operating procedures describing how each step of the CM process should be implemented, tools or forms that should be used for CM, and additional guidance that must be taken into account by actors involved in CM.
Over the past two decades of humanitarian work in northern Uganda, national and international child-focused organisations as well as government departments responsible for children have built a rich body of knowledge that has informed child protection work throughout the country. The development of this Child Protection Curriculum and related training materials is therefore a first step by the Ministry of Gender, the Ministry of Labour and Social Development, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Child Protection Working Group in Uganda, and selected academic institutions to…
Based on the use of an assessment tool in four countries: Armenia, Ghana, Moldova, and Uganda, MEASURE Evaluation developed detailed assessment reports on the care system in each country. With each country having assessed its care system, MEASURE Evaluation supported the lead ministry in charge of alternative care to facilitate a workshop in each country to set priorities and create action plans. This report presents findings from all four countries, by system component and areas of care, and summarizes recommendations for strengthening alternative care systems.
Uganda became a party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 1990, thereby assuming the obligation to undertake “all appropriate legislative measures for the implementation of the rights recognised in the Convention.” This report presents an assessment of the compatibility of the legislation of Uganda with the rights and principles recognised by the Convention and its two Optional Protocols to which Uganda became a party in 2001 and 2002 respectively.
The purpose of the assessment was two-fold: To identify legislative provisions that are incompatible with international…
Disability and children are high on both the Global and national Development agenda. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); National Development Plan (NDP II) 2015/16 – 2019/20 and; the Social Development Sector Plan (SDSP1) 2015/16 – 2019/20 among others make mention of disability and child support.
Children with disabilities (CWDs) are among the most neglected groups in the policy domain as well as in the private sphere. The majority of these children face enormous economic, political, and social barriers that have an adverse impact on their physical, social and intellectual…
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Family constitutes more than simple living arrangements, and these systems are of pivotal development importance in sub-Saharan Africa. The diversity of family structures and types in sub-Saharan Africa has warranted an examination of the various policies and laws in the region. This paper examines all policy and laws related to families in the South, West, East and Central regions of sub-Saharan Africa. The paper highlights the sundry of policies and laws that are influenced by cultural and religious differences within and across regions. Issues relating to patriarchy and…