Over the past two decades of humanitarian work in northern Uganda, national and international child-focused organisations as well as government departments responsible for children have built a rich body of knowledge that has informed child protection work throughout the country. The development of this Child Protection Curriculum and related training materials is therefore a first step by the Ministry of Gender, the Ministry of Labour and Social Development, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Child Protection Working Group in Uganda, and selected academic institutions to professionalise the child protection sector within the broader realm of social work in Uganda.
The foundation for this Child Protection Curriculum is largely built around the work of humanitarian agencies and key government departments through years of innovative programming and lessons learned, most of which would otherwise have been lost with the end of the conflict in northern Uganda.
