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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Un groupe international multi-agences offre une formation gratuite (MOOC),

Le MOOC Interorganisations International offre une formation en ligne gratuite. Partout dans le monde, pour des raisons diverses, des centaines de milliers d'enfants ne peuvent pas vivre avec leurs parents.

International Inter-Agency MOOC,

International Inter-Agency MOOC is offering free online training. All around the world, for many different reasons, hundreds of thousands of children cannot live with their parents.

Charles A.Nelson, Harvard Medical School & Boston Children's Hospital - Washington Post,

A researcher studying Romanian children who were institutionalized as infants describes the impact of social deprivation on the developing brain and their similarities to children with autism. This article suggests understanding the autism features appearing in children who were socially deprived as invants may offer insight into autism more generally and hint at interventions to ease them. 

Jeffrey Waid, Armeda Stevenson Wojciak - Evaluation and Program Planning,

This study describes and evaluates Camp To Belong, a multi-site program designed to provide short-term reunification to separated sibling groups through a week-long summer camp experience in the US. 

Jeffrey Waid & Armeda Stevenson Wojciak - Evaluation and Program Planning,

This study describes and evaluates Camp To Belong, a multi-site program designed to provide short-term reunification to separated sibling groups through a week-long summer camp experience. Using a pre-test post-test survey design, this paper examines changes in youth ratings of sibling conflict and sibling support across camps located in six geographically distinct regions of the United States. 

William P. O’Hare - Statistical Journal of the IAOS,

The U.S. Census Bureau's Demographic Analysis shows that young children (age 0 to 4) had a higher net undercount rate than any other age group in the 2010 U.S. Decennial Census. This paper identifies key patterns relative to the net undercount of young children in U.S. data and examines data available in other countries to see whether these data patterns exist in other country contexts. 

ChildTrends,

Child Trends is looking for a Research Scientist to join its Child Welfare research area which focuses on issues such as prevention of maltreatment, child protection, reunification, court oversight, foster care, kinship care, adoption, and youth leaving foster care. 

CPC Learning Network & Initiative for Child Rights in the Global Compacts,

During this webinar on Thursday, May 11th, 2017, the second in the series of webinars organized by the Initiative for Child Rights in the Global Compacts, two experts Mike Dottridge and Professor Jacqueline Bhabha outlined their current work on one of the key outputs of the initiative: a working document entitled “Child Rights in the Global Compact”.

CPC Learning Network,

The CPC Learning Network is hosting a webinar to present the Initiative for Child Rights in the Global Compacts to a broad audience and to gather feedback from webinar participants about how these global compacts can best serve children.

International Rescue Committee,

International Rescue Committee is seeking a Regional Coordinator, Unaccompanied Children for its New York office.