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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Kathryn van Doore, Laura Healy and Megan Jones - ReThink Orphanages,

This report “seeks to map Australia’s contribution to residential care institutions for children overseas across a number of sectors and identify opportunities for strategic engagement with various stakeholders in the Australian context.”

Better Volunteering Better Care,

A detailed explanation of the problems associated with volunteering in orphanages (residential care centers). 

BBC News,

In this video from the BBC, Katy Watson tells the story of one mother and daughter who were able to reunite briefly during a 20-minute opening of the US-Mexico border in California. 

Republic of Zambia: Ministry of Community Development , Mother and Child Health & Department of Social Welfare,

This brochure outlines the Public Welfare Assistance Scheme, including its objectives, types of assistance provided, social and educational support provided, eligibility and how to access services.

Republic of Zambia: Ministry of Community Development , Mother and Child Health & Department of Social Welfare,

This brochure outlines adoption policy and procedure in Zambia, including a definition of adoption, how it works, its limitations, requirements for adopting a child, and other conditions.

Republic of Zambia: Ministry of Community Development, Mother and Child Health - Department of Social Welfare,

This brochure outlines the Public Welfare Assistance Scheme, including services related to inspection of child-care facilities and adoption.

Ministry of Community Development, Mother and Child Health & Department of Social Welfare ,

This brochure contains information about foster care in Zambia, including the definition of foster care, its limitations, its importance, how to become a foster carer and how foster licenses are granted. 

Rebeca Scorcia Popescu,

This study used a secondary analysis of data from 2003 to 2013 to better understand the situation of children temporarily abandoned in Romania. It looked at data for children aged 0-3 years who were abandoned in different hospital units or institutionalized in public orphanages or public and private foster care institutions. 

IRC,

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is seeking a Child Protection (CP) Case Management Coaching Manager to support the capacity building of the CP case management system in Lebanon on multiple levels. 

Florence Martin & Garazi Zulaika - Global Social Welfare,

This paper offers an analysis on orphanhood and living arrangements data based on available DHS and MICS surveys from 77 countries from sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Africa/West Asia/and Europe, Central Asia, and South and Southeast Asia.