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

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UNHQ,

The UN General Assembly will host a high-level summit to address large movements of refugees and migrants, with the aim of bringing countries together behind a more humane and coordinated approach.

Miranda Poeze and Valentina Mazzucato - Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility,

How migration policies affect family mobility and relationships is a new and emerging area of study within transnational family literature. This chapter contributes to this literature by providing an in-depth examination of Ghanaian migrant mothers’ encounters with Dutch family migration policies and the impacts such policies have on their pathways to family reunion and the consequences for family relationships. 

Heath, Ryan D.; Das, Adit; Khoury, Nayla M., - Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond: An International Journal on Alternative Care,

This article aims to assess the relevance of Western youth development models to adolescents in institutional care in India.  The authors review three frameworks for positive youth development.

Nancy Rolock and Alfred G Pérez - Qualitative Social Work,

This study used a mixed-methods multiphase, iterative process to illuminate the congruencies and incongruencies between the young adults' accounts of their foster care experiences and the legalistic, system-focused view of their experiences. 

Von Eva Wieners - Zeit Online,

Wer Waisenkindern in Nepal hilft, kann nichts falsch machen? Stimmt nicht. Viele Spender unterstützen ungewollt die Ausbeuter der Kinder.

Nancy Rolock,

This study used a mixed-methods multiphase, iterative process to illuminate the congruencies and incongruencies between the young adults' accounts of their foster care experiences and the legalistic, system-focused view of their experiences. This study highlights the limitations of administrative data as the primary source for evaluating systems, assessing child well-being, and for understanding child welfare outcomes.

Catholic Relief Services,

Catholic Relief Services is seeking a Technical Advisor II V to work closely with and be based at the Department of Social Welfare to achieve the project objectives, effectively coordinate, manage and monitor and evaluate the case management systems strengthening and child sensitive prevention and response services to violence. 

Catholic Relief Services,

Catholic Relief Services is seeking a  Senior Technical Advisor for OVC/Youth (Southern Africa) to lead and provide technical assistance to SARO’s programming for orphans and vulnerable children, and to provide technical leadership and guidance on issues affecting programming for vulnerable children across the region.   

Nadi N. Kaonga, Hima Batavia, William C. Philbrick, & Patricia N. Mechael - Procedia Engineering,

Organizations working to protect the health and wellbeing of children in emergencies are moving away from traditional paper-based systems towards more sophisticated and innovative digitally-based systems. Formative research was conducted to identify the state of the current evidence base on the use of information and communication technology (ICT) for child protection case management in emergencies (CPCME). 

Lisa Button and Shane Evans, Save the Children Australia, in consultation with Amy Lamoin, UNICEF Australia,

This report by Save the Children Australia and UNICEF Australia explores the human, economic and strategic cost of Australia’s current policies which seek to deter asylum seekers from migrating to Australia by sea.