In 2020–2021, the Parenting Agenda Initiative, a consortium of agencies and institutions involved in parenting work, conducted Uganda’s first mapping study for parenting interventions and initiatives. The findings recommended investment in developing evidence-based parenting interventions and developing guidelines on the delivery modalities to improve parenting programming in Uganda.
Following that, the Government of Uganda, through the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD), devoted efforts to developing guidelines and policies to guide parenting work in the country.
The MGLSD desires to harmonize the strategic vision of all stakeholders engaged in developing, funding, implementing and overseeing parenting programmes to deliver and scale out evidence-based parenting interventions in the country. This will improve and streamline the work around parenting and strengthen the family.
The MGLSD and collaborators have thus developed this parenting manual to harmonize the work of the implementers of parenting programmes.
