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A day after the United States of America announced financial and visa restrictions against two Ugandan judges, the Judiciary came out with at least seven new guidelines that they think will address concerns surrounding child adoption.
The new guidelines were issued yesterday by the Principal Judge, Justice Flavian Zeija, pursuant to Section 20 of the Judicature Act and in consultation with the acting Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo.
“The objective of the circular is to address the numerous concerns raised by key stakeholders on the manner in which some judicial officers have handled…
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As the problem of a lack of parental care over the years has worsened in Africa, states have not adopted sufficient alternative care measures to address the needs of the children involved. To date, many countries in Africa remain suspicious of inter-country adoption and, hence, consider it as a subsidiary means of providing alternative care to children deprived of a family environment. Through a study of the legal frameworks and court decisions of Malawi and Uganda, the article demonstrates that some of the most common restrictions on inter-country adoption do not serve the best…
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International adoption has been gaining popularity since the end of the twentieth century (Selman, 2002). Throughout this increase in international adoptions, the focus has drifted away from its original goal of providing homes that are in the best interest of the children (Graff, 2008). It has become more common for international adoption agencies to conduct international adoptions as a profitable business strategy, as international adoptive parents pay an average of $40,000 for a child (MGLSD, 2012; Graff, 2008). While this is not always the case, corruption is…
Uganda is the country with the youngest population in the world. According to the 2002 population census figures from Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), 78.4% of the population was below the age of 30 years, of this percentage, 22.3% (5.4 million) was aged between 18-30 years and 49.4% (12 million) aged less than 15 years. Currently (2012), about 6.5 million (21.3%) Ugandans are between 18 – 30 years of age of which 2.4 million are estimated to be orphans aspiring for various forms of services in terms of education, employment and family formation. According to figures from Uganda Bureau of…
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The study examined alternative family and community care options and how they can be strengthened; cultural attitudes and perceptions of the communities and experiences of prospective foster and adoptive parents as regards reunification, kinship care, fostering and adoption; the study examined Government’s position and policies in place to support family reunification with institutionalized children, and sought views about how hindrances to family care can be dealt with.
Children as young as one day continue to be abandoned due to problems facing Ugandan…
This brief from the National Child Protection Working Group (NCPWG) examines the types of corrupt practices experienced by children in Uganda and what can be done to close the loop holes that allow such corrupt practices. The brief is based on a variety of sources that have previously examined how illegal payments and other leakages of public funds affect children; these sources include the annual crime reports by the Uganda Police Force (UPF), the 2018 Violence Against Children Survey (VACS) study report, the 2013 Uganda Service Delivery Indicator (SDI) survey and actual…
This video series from Better Care Network, in partnership with Child's i Foundation, highlights promising practices in children's care in Uganda. The series of six videos captures practice-based learning and each video in the series is accompanied by a one-page discussion paper.
Videos in the series include:
In this video, social worker Evelyn Nateza describes the process used by Child's i Foundation to find Ugandan adoptive families for hard-to-place children. This video is one within a series of videos produced by Child's i Foundation and Better Care Network.
View the accompanying one-page discussion paper with video summary, discussion points, and suggestions for further reading by clicking on the thumbnail image above.
Check out the other videos in the series…
This presentation by the Principal Probation and Welfare Officer of Uganda was given at a workshop in London in September 2017, facilitated by MEASURE Evaluation, funded and supported by DCOF/USAID and focused on moving forward alternative care reform in Ghana, Uganda, Armenia and Moldova. The presentation outlines demographic data of Uganda and provides a thorough review of the following:
- Cultural and historical influences on care
- Key actors in care reform
- Main features of care reform…
This issue of Childhood in Africa includes several articles related to children's care, including 'Embedding social justice in Ugandan adoption and legal guardianship cases' and 'The care and support of vulnerable children by foster care families in Uganda: Lessons in social justice and social protection.'
'Embedding social justice in Ugandan adoption and legal guardianship cases' highlights the emerging social justice issues associated with the rise in intercountry adoptions from Uganda from 2010 to 2011, many under irregular and suspicious circumstances (Lumu 2014) due…