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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Child Welfare Information Gateway,

This issue brief highlights the importance of understanding the concerns and needs of children and families in rural communities in the United States

Opening Doors for Europe's Children,

This report from Opening Doors for Europe's Children presents recommendations to the EU on how best to include deinstitutionalization and children's care as a part of the next multiannual financial framework.

Opening Doors for Europe's Children,

The 2017 country factsheets provide an update on the status of child protection and care reforms from 16 European countries that are the focus of Opening Doors for Europe’s Children campaign in Phase II. 

World Health Organization (WHO),

This fact sheet on violence against children from the World Health Organization (WHO) provides a brief overview of violence against children around the world.

Grandparents Plus,

This report is based on a survey of members of the Grandparents Plus Kinship Care Support Network, which includes almost 4,000 kinship carers in the UK.

Tyrone C. Cheng, Celia C. Lo - Child & Family Social Work,

This study explored whether the strength of caseworkers' engagement with families in the child-welfare system was associated with the caseworkers' academic degrees, job responsibilities and environments, and/or ethnicity.

Amy Thomasson - BucketOrange Magazine,

This article from BucketOrange Magazine highlights the final report of the Australian Parliamentary Inquiry into Modern Slavery and its inclusion of orphanage trafficking.

eTurboNews,

This article announces Friends International's launch of the ChildSafe Movement in Bali, Indonesia in collaboration with a tour operator, Buffalo Tours.

Kathryn L. Humphreys, Devi Miron, Katie A. McLaughlin, Margaret A. Sheridan, Charles A. Nelson, Nathan A. Fox, Charles H. Zeanah - The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry,

The Bucharest Early Intervention Project sought to examine the effects of foster care as an alternative to institutional care for abandoned infants in Romanian institutions.

Heidi Jacobsen, Hilde Brabrand, Solveig M. M. Liland, Tore Wentzel-Larsen, Vibeke Moe - Children and Youth Services Review,

The aim of this study was to investigate 60 foster parents' acceptance, commitment and awareness of influence to their early placed foster children at 2 years, as well as to investigate the association between these three concepts and the foster children's social-emotional functioning (externalizing, internalizing, dysregulation and competence) at 2 and 3 years of age.