In this National Action Plan for Child Well-Being, Uganda spells out goals, plans, and actions it needs to take to improve child well-being in Uganda. The document points out that 62 percent of persons living in poverty are children. It notes that 33 percent of children under 5 are stunted, and it further states that only 37 percent of children make it to secondary education.
Uganda notes that it has introduced several goals and reforms in the past that have led to significant achievements toward ending poverty under its Millennium Development Goals. Those goals were limited in that they only addressed reducing child mortality, improving HIV treatment access, and preventing malaria.
This report examines Uganda’s overarching goal, which is to become a prosperous country by mid-century. Leaders realize that this cannot be achieved without addressing child poverty, development, health, and education. As such, Uganda developed its goals, plans, and actions for improved child well-being.
Uganda’s goals are to: prevent child mortality; strengthen children’s healthy emotional and cognitive development; reduce risks of abuse, exploitation, violence and neglect; increase children’s participation; and promote evidence-based programs and monitoring. These goals correspond with Uganda’s objectives for better health, nutrition and care; better education; better prevention, stronger families, safer schools, and better enforcement; better parenting and better voice; better results, better learning, and better data.
Uganda closes this plan by emphasizing the importance of meeting these goals for children’s well-being. It reiterates that Uganda cannot meet its plan for prosperity by 2040 if it does not address its goals for child well-being.
