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These presentations from UNICEF and Alternative Care Thailand were delivered during the July 9, 2021, workshop of the Care Measurement Task Force of the Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform. The focus of the workshop was on care measurement initiatives in Eastern and Southern Africa and Thailand.
The assessment of COVID-19 effect on the Wellbeing of Children in Uganda was conducted between June and August, 2020 by AfriChild Centre, Makerere University. The study took a retrospective approach with a focus on the three months of the COVID-19 lock down (AprilJune 2020) to counter contradictions that could arise from a longer study period in the face of changing dynamics of COVID-19.
To generate evidence, a cross-sectional survey design utilizing quantitative and qualitative approaches of data collection was used. A total of 644 children aged 10-17 distributed across four districts of…
This report examines the rise in child labor and poverty during the Covid-19 pandemic in three countries: Ghana, Nepal, and Uganda, the impact on children’s rights, and government responses. Each of the three countries has made significant progress reducing poverty and child labor in recent decades. Each has also made an explicit commitment as a “pathfinder” country to accelerate efforts to eradicate child labor in line with the Sustainable Development Goals. Adopted by United Nations member states in 2015, these goals call for taking immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labor…
The overall aim of the training programme is to support the ongoing strengthening of Uganda’s social service workforce, with a particular emphasis on professional practitioners who work to protect and support children, women and families who are at risk of/have experienced protection concerns in the context of COVID-19.
This study explores the effect of COVID-19 on a small number of privately run and funded residential care institutions by conducting a qualitative research study comprising 21 semi-structured interviews across seven focus countries. The interview participants include founders, funders and directors of residential care institutions and reveal the impact of COVID-19 on many aspects of the operations of privately run residential care institutions including funding, care for children, staffing, the presence of volunteers, impacts of public health measures and directives, reintegration of children…
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Globally, COVID‐19 lockdown measures have exposed children to more sexual, physical and emotional abuse and neglect. Although the COVID‐19 pandemic is likely to have long‐lasting adverse psychological effects on children, there have been comparatively few studies on children's health as compared with adults, particularly in low‐income countries. Uganda implemented one of the most stringent lockdowns with bans on transportation and gatherings as well as the closure of schools, stores and places of worship. In order to address the dearth of information in less developed regions, the…
This report from Child's i Foundation provides an overview of the organisation's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda. Child's i Foundation is taking steps to ensure that families do not have to make the "heartbreaking choice" of placing their child in an orphanage and is also working to ensure that the needs of children in orphanages are being addressed.
These steps include:
- Responding to child protection issues
- Maintaining contact with orphanages and advocating government to ensure that children in institutional care are prioritised
- Keeping…
Save the Children interviewed almost 300 children and adults across Uganda, about the impact of COVID-19 and lockdown measures on children's lives and wellbeing.
This report finds that children are increasingly vulnerable and at risk from an in crease in violence and abuse, stress, poverty, and hazardous coping strategies such as child labour and child marriage. At the same time, vulnerable children have less support than usual.
The findings show that child protection must be at the heart of the national COVID-19 response, and why Government and donors should invest more in…
During the Covid-19 outbreak we are seeing a significant increase in protection risks for children, adolescents and youth in Uganda - including violence and abuse against children, as well as a rise in hazardous child labour, child marriage and poverty. This briefing paper is produced by the "Joining Forces" coalition of ChildFund, Plan International, Save the Children, SOS Children's Villages, Terre des Hommes and World Vision. It sets out how children in Uganda are being affected, and practical recommendations to the Government, donors and other key stakeholders.
"To the owners of schools, please be honest, do not gamble with the lives of children. If you have any positive cases, please declare them to their parents," Kirunda said.
Experts have urged schools to speak out in case of an outbreak of COVID-19 among learners when schools re-open on January 10, 2022.
Makerere University School of Law Don and Lawyer Robert Kirunda said that parents have a right to be told if their child tests positive for COVID19 so that they can be given timely treatment.