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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Migrant crisis: More than 10,000 children 'missing'
BBC News,

According to Europol, more than 10,000 migrant children may have disappeared after arriving and registering in Europe over the past two years.

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Country Care Review: Maldives
Better Care Network,

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. 

Video: 5 years later and we don't need an orphanage
Child's i Foundation,

Five years ago, Child's i Foundation founder Lucy Buck set up a 25-bed 'transitional facility' to prove it was possible to place children in need of care into permanent families. Childs' i Foundation piloted an 'emergency care pilot' to see i

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Volunteer tourism impacts in Ghana: a practice approach
Bertine Bargeman, Greg Richards & Ellen Govers ,

Using a practice approach focused on interactions between foreign volunteers and local staff, this study examined the impact of volunteer tourism on Zion Primary School and Tamale Children’s Home (an orphanage), both in Tamale, Ghana.

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Changing Mindsets and Practice: Engaging Christian faith based actors in deinstitutionalisation and child welfare systems reforms
Rebecca Nhep, ACCI ,

This tool was designed to help those seeking to assist Christian faith-based actors involved in long-term residential care programs make the transition from institutional to non-institutional (family and community-based) child welfare programs.

Haphazard government care left migrant children vulnerable to human trafficking, senators say
Associated Press - Los Angeles Times,

This article from the Los Angeles Times reports migrant children in the government's care were placed in U.S. homes and left vulnerable to human trafficking due to sometimes nonexistent screening by the Department of Health and Human Services. 

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Senate subcommittee examines migrant children abuse
Mary Clare Jalonick and Garance Burke, Associated Press,

A recent U.S. bipartisan congressional investigation reported that migrant children in the government's care fell prey to human trafficking.

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UK to take in refugee children separated from families in 'exceptional cases'
ITV,

The UK Government announced that it would take in refugee children who have become separated from their families in Syria and other conflicts.

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UNICEF Ghana: P3 Child Protection Specialist (Alternative Care)
UNICEF Ghana,

UNICEF Ghana is seeking to fill a position for a P3 Child Protection Specialist (Alternative Care).

The deadline for submitting applications is 28 January 2016. 

Des enfants derrière les barreaux. Recours excessif à la détention de mineurs à travers le monde
Human Rights Watch,

Dans le monde entier, des enfants se morfondent derrière des barreaux, parfois pendant des périodes prolongées. Ils sont exposés dans bien des cas à des brutalités et des conditions inhumaines. Le manque de données fiables et le grand nombre d’institutions concernées font que le nombre total d’enfants privés de liberté dans le monde n’est pas connu avec précision. Pour sa part, l’UNICEF estime qu’au moins un million d’enfants dans le monde sont derrière des barreaux.