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 factsheet provides child welfare professionals with an overview of motivational interviewing, describes circumstances when it could be applied, and highlights the basics of the method.

Innocenti,

This research digest is the 8th in the series on adolescence. This edition focuses on protection from violence, health and development & learning. 

Mariela Neagu - Thesis presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education at the University of Oxford,

This study explores the childhood experiences and transitions to adulthood of 39 Romanian care leavers and adoptees, born around 1989 - 1990.

Lucy Jamieson & Linda Richter - South African Child Gauge 2017,

This essay critically engages with the 2030 Global Agenda and assesses the potential of the SDGs to transform our world to enable all children – regardless of race, gender, ability, or social background – to not only survive but thrive.

A.J. Alfred, A.M. Ma’rof, N. Buang - Varia Pendidikan,

This research was conducted to study the relationships between academic performance, learning motivation, institutionalised environments and guardian involvement of children reared in a Malaysian orphanage.

Molly Sarubbi, Emily Parker, Lauren Sisneros - Education Commission of the States ,

This special report from the Education Commission of the States describes initiatives and policy changes underway in the US that support foster youth in pursuing postsecondary education.

Giovanni Giulio Valtolina & Marina D’Odorico - REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana,

This paper attempts to highlight and discuss some critical issues regarding unaccompanied migrant minors in Europe. 

Jeanne S. Ringel, Dana Schultz, Joshua Mendelsohn, Stephanie Brooks Holliday, Katharine Anne Sieck, Ifeanyi Edochie, Lauren Davis - RAND Corporation,

This study is the first attempt to integrate maltreatment risk, detection, pathways through the child welfare system, and consequences in a comprehensive quantitative model that can be used to simulate the impact of policy changes.

Viera Vavrecková, Michaela Tichá, & Zlata Ondrúšová - DANUBE: Law, Economics and Social Issues Review,

The objective of this essay is to determine how substitute child care in the Czech Republic has changed in the last ten years.

Ilan Katz, Anna Jones, BJ Newton, Elizabeth Reimer - Social Policy Research Centre,

This is the final report of a mixed method research project aimed to support the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Royal Commission) in better understanding the life journeys of victim/survivors of child sexual abuse within institutions.