Today millions of children are on the frontlines of conflict. Despite progress in some areas, the trends over recent years are of increasing violations, increasing numbers of children affected by conflict and increasingly protracted crises. While...
60% of refugees in Uganda are children, and hundreds of thousands are out of school. Classrooms are dangerously overcrowded and teachers are overwhelmed. This photo book looks at the progress and challenges in getting refugee and host community...
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...
Uganda has joined the growing number of countries to close all education facilities to try and mitigate the spread of COVID-19, which has left 15 million children out of school and facing increased risk of violence, exploitation and abuse. But...
Our Youth Empowerment Programme, funded in partnership with Bulgari, supports rural youth in northern Uganda to access savings and financial services, get vocational skills, start small businesses, and advocate for change in their communities.
The language barrier in the classroom is one of the major challenges to effective education for refugee children in Uganda. The Education Consortium, led by Save the Children, with funding from Education Cannot Wait, has worked with a Language...
This paper is the third in a series of policy briefs produced by Uganda’s National Child Protection Working Group, with support from Save the Children. It outlines how corruption prevents effective reporting and response to child abuse and sexual...
Sub-Saharan Africa hosts almost a third of all refugees in the world. This briefing for the African Union Heads of State Summit sets out how to improve education for refugee and host community children, focusing on cases from Uganda and Chad.
Children and youth form the bulk of the population globally. This is even more the case in developing countries including Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia as covered under this study. There have been endeavours to ensure this next generation of adults...
This paper is the second in a series of policy briefs produced by Uganda’s National Child Protection Working Group, with support from Save the Children. Despite enormous child protection needs in Uganda, national funding for the sector remains...