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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UNICEF,

Pour la première fois depuis le début de la crise des réfugiés et des migrants en Europe, on compte plus d’enfants et de femmes que d’hommes adultes au sein des populations en mouvement, affirme l'UNICEF. 

RELAF,

Este informe presenta información sobre el problema de institucionalización de niños en América Latina y el Caribe.

Dr. Ian Milligan - CELCIS/HealthProm,

This report provides an evaluation of the Keeping and Finding Families Project, a pilot foster care project in Tajikistan. 

John Carpenter, Tricia Jessiman and Demi Patsios - University of Bristol; Simon Hackett and Josephine Phillips - Durham University,

This independent report, from University of Bristol and Durham University, draws on information from the largest randomised controlled trial of a service for children affected by sexual abuse.

Oscar E. Firbank - Journal of Comparative Social Work,

This study seeks to understand collaboration dynamics in social services for determining what strategies work best in facilitating collaborative endeavors in specific policy and institutional environments.

Tilahun Girma, Retrak,

The goal of this final evaluation is to build on the mid-term review of a 3-year pilot community project established to address some of the push factors that were leading many children to come to the city of Addis Ababa from Ethiopia’s southern region (SNNPR). 

Matthis Schick, Verena Schönbucher, Markus A. Landolt, Ulrich Schnyder, Wenjie Xu, Thomas Maier, Meichun Mohler-Kuo,

This article discusses how prevalence rates of child maltreatment (CM) can differ substantially between countries and ethnicities

This article highlights how inter-generational practices of love, care and solidarity are central to the negotiation of belonging in the settlement country. 

Jeanette Cossar, Marian Brandon and Peter Jordan - Child and Family Social Work,

This paper presents findings from a qualitative study exploring the views of 26 children, aged 6–17 years, about their participation in the child protection system in England.

David Berridge - Child and Family Social Work,

 This paper builds on a recent evaluation of the piloting of the continental European model of social pedagogy (SP) in English residential care. It does three things: it considers the theoretical social policy literature on policy transfer and its implications; discusses European residential care for children and the discipline of SP; and reflects on these debates and the situation of children's residential care in England.