Uganda

Demographic Data

  • Total Population: 37.78 million
  • Population under 15 years: 48%
  • Life Expectancy at Birth: 59 years
  • Human Development Index: 163 out of 188
  • World Bank Status: Low income
  • HIV/AIDS Prevalence (age 15-49): 7.3%
  • Mean Household Composition: 4.9 persons
  • Female-Headed Households: 29.5%
  • Early Marriage (% of children married by 18 years): 40%

Sources: World Bank, UNICEF, UNDP HDR 2015, DHS 2011
Highlighted Documents
Uganda Country Brief on Children's Living Arrangements
Snapshot of Children's Living Arrangements
Uganda Country Care Review

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Labour rights for migrant workers: A child rights perspective
Destination Unknown, Draft version for inputs at the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development,

This paper is the sixth of the second edition of the child rights bridging papers for the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8 to 10 December 2016).

Interaction of international mechanisms of migrants’ rights protection: A child rights perspective
Destination Unknown, Draft version for inputs at the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development,

This paper is the fifth of the second edition of the child rights bridging papers for the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8 to 10 December 2016).

Rights of migrant women: A child rights perspective
Destination Unknown, Draft version for inputs at the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development,

This paper is the fourth of the second edition of the child rights bridging papers for the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8 to 10 December 2016). It examines specificities affecting children on the nove and other children affected by migration related to migrants stranded in distress.

Migrants stranded in distress: A child rights perspective
Destination Unknown, Draft version for inputs at the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development,

This paper is the third of the second edition of the child rights bridging papers for the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8 to 10 December 2016).

Engagement of diaspora and migrant associations: A child rights perspective
Destination Unknown, for inputs at the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development,

This paper is the second of the second edition of the child rights bridging papers for the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8 to 10 December 2016).

Leave no one behind: the first year of the SDGs for children on the move and other children affected by migration.
Destination Unknown for inputs at the Civil Society Days of the GFMD,

This paper is the first of the second edition of the child rights bridging papers for the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8 to 10 December 2016).

Child Rights Bridging Papers – 2° edition
Destination Unknown, Draft version for inputs at the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development,

These series of 6 papers are the second edition of the child rights bridging papers for the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8 to 10 December 2016).

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No Child Should Grow Up Like This: Identifying long term outcomes of Forgotten Australians, Child Migrants and Stolen Generations
Hazel Blunden, Elizabeth Fernandez, Jung-Sook Lee, Szilvia Kovacs - UNSW Australia,

This report documents the life experiences of care leavers in Australia.  

Summary Sheet: Preliminary Findings – December 2016: Zimbabwe Population-Based HIV Impact Assessment ZIMPHIA 2015-2016
PHIA Project,

The attached Summary Sheet, provides a short summary of the preliminary findings of the 2015-2016 ZIMPHIA Report.  

Tia Palermo on Evaluation of Social Cash Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa
UNICEF,

In this Innocenti Podcast, Tia Palermo discusses The Transfer Project, a government run large-scale social cash transfer program in Sub-Saharan Africa. 

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