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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Opioid problem creates spike in foster care
Tom Giambroni - Salem News,

Opioid problem has caused the cost of foster care in Columbiana County, Massachusetts to increase 40 percent.

More Valley kids are in foster care as child abuse rises
Christina Mullen - WKBN,

Child abuse causes the number of children in foster care to rise.

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A review of feeding interventions for children with disabilities: Implications for institutionalised settings
Paula Rabaey - International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation,

This literature review looks at the most current interventions on safe feeding practices for children with neuromotor disabilities who cannot feed themselves.

Children Come First, Intervento in Frontiera: Dossier II
Alessio Fasulo - Save the Children Italy,

As part of the "Children Come First: Intervention at the border" project, Save the Children Italy elaborates and disseminates, on a quarterly basis, a dossier containing quantitative and qualitative information (profiles) relating to migrant minors entering Italy. This dossier contains information relating to the period January-March 2017.

Pretesting a Human Trafficking Screening Tool in the Child Welfare and Runaway and Homeless Youth Systems
Urban Institute,

In order to better serve youth trafficking victims, this study developed a Human Trafficking Screening Tool (HTST) and pretested it with 617 runaway and homeless youth and child welfare-involved youth. 

Preventing Unnecessary Loss of Parental or Family Care in Brazil, Guyana, India, South Africa, and Russia
Joanna Rogers - Family for Every Child,

This report presents the findings from a study that aimed to explore the application in practice of the ‘necessity principle’ from the Guidelines on Alternative Care for Children (UN, 2009) by using three quantitative and three qualitative indicators that provide information about whether children and families have received support to the fullest extent possible before a child ends up outside of parental care arrangements in formal or informal care, or living alone. 

Outcomes for Permanence and Stability for Children in Long-term Care: Appendices
Lisa Moran, Caroline McGregor and Carmel Devaney - UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway,

This document includes the appendices for the Outcomes for Permanence and Stability for Children in Long-term Care study, which privides a complete picture of the study's research methods and quantitative data collected. 

Outcomes for Permanence and Stability for Children in Long-term Care
Lisa Moran, Caroline McGregor and Carmel Devaney - The UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway,

The aim of this study was to explore how young people who have been in care, and their carers, conceptualise permanence and stability.

Children and Social Work Act 2017 Chapter 16
United Kingdom,

This Act was enacted by the government of the United Kingdom "to make provision about looked after children; to make other provision in relation to the welfare of children; and to make provision about the regulation of social workers." 

Mapping of residential care facilities in the capital and 24 provinces of the kingdom of Cambodia
Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation, UNICEF, USAID,

This mapping significantly advances the current knowledge of the state of institutionalization of Cambodian children.