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This document contains a list of alternative care homes in Uganda that have been approved by the Ministry for Gender, Labour and Social Development.
Introduction
Around the world, very few reliable estimates exist of the populations of children living and/or working on the streets. These children are often missed by national censuses or other surveys as they may be absent from households, or live in vulnerable and transient households which are not included. In Uganda, a group of local stakeholders working with children on the streets, in collaboration with the Ministry of Gender, Labour, and Social Development (MGLSD) and the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), were interested in undertaking an enumeration of the street population in…
Executive Summary
This report presents findings of a baseline study for the Strong Beginnings -- A Family for all Children project. The study sought to gather comprehensive data on Child Care Institutions (CCIs) in the three project districts (Kampala, Jinja and Wakiso) and assess the wellbeing of children living in those institutions. The results were expected to inform the interventions aimed at improving CCIs’ gate-keeping, improving the quality of care in CCIs, resettlement of children, and working towards promoting and strengthening family based alternative care. In addition, the…
The Ministry of Gender, Labour & Social Development (MoGLSD) in Uganda set up an Alternative Care Task Force in 2011 to investigate the state of childcare in Uganda and develop a national Alternative Care Framework. The Alternative Care Framework outlines a continuum of care for each child who is without direct parental care and the activities to be undertaken to ensure the Framework can be operationalised.
An Assessment Toolkit has been created to assist Probation and Social Welfare Officers (PSWO’s) to monitor and report on the childcare institutions in their Districts. The…