Partnership between UNFPA Uganda and Korea International Cooperation Agency is supporting efforts to prevent adolescent pregnancy and reap the girl effect. One of the highlights is the Live Your Dream Campaign that uses multimedia to empower girls to avoid early pregnancy.
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UNFPA supports the Ministry of Health in Uganda to ensure that every woman, girl, boy and man can access Reproductive Health commodities of their choice whenever theyneed them. In addition, the government of Uganda and partners have employed various approaches in an attempt to promote reproductive health commodity security. However, monitoring reports from the Government of Uganda /UNFPA Country programme have consistently revealed intermittent stock outs of some commodities and overstocks of others, both at central level and service delivery levels.
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Linked together in a complex cycle of causes and consequences, sexual and reproductive ill health including HIV/AIDS and Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) remain major public health concerns for Uganda. With one of the world’s highest total fertility rates (TFR) at 5.4, Uganda has one of the youngest and most rapidly growing populations. Integrating Sexual and Reproductive health and Rights and SGBV services can provide a platform for reaching young people and women with HIV prevention, care, and treatment interventions.
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The growing number of specialized courts and judicial initiatives in Uganda and the varied approaches they take indicate that the judiciary, government, communities and service providers are searching for effective solutions to challenges in the justice system. Currently, there is no province wide approach to specialized courts that engages the government and the judiciary jointly. This policy brief establishes a structured approach for current and future specialized courts that is rooted in validated practice, research and other approaches which engage the judiciary, justice system partners and other parties.
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Not so long ago, most people had large families: five children, on average. Where once there was one global fertility rate, today there are many, with differences wider than at any point in human history.
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UNFPA the United Nations Population Fund works to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every child birth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled. We are also the leading United Nations agency that supports the Government of Uganda to generate data for planning and decision making. We ensure empowerment of women, adolescents and young people to live their dreams and fulfil their potential. UNFPA is active in 54 districts across Uganda, including these that host refugees.
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The population of Uganda is currently projected at about 39 million people and it is expected to double in the next 20 years. Currently Uganda has one of the youngest and most rapidly growing population in world, with the population aged 15 years below constituting more than half the total population. The Country is therefore, at a critical and defining moment because the most important demographic issue for Uganda is related to the age structure rather the overall size of its population. Changes in the age structure of the population may bring about a demographic dividend that can be captured to produce a virtuous cycle of economic growth with right policy framework.
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The year 2017 marked five years since the historic 2012 London Summit on Family Planning at which the Government of Uganda pledged to increase the country’s budget for Family Planning supplies to $5 million annually. Against the backdrop of this milestone, UNFPA and the Ministry of Health and partners paused to take stock of how far these commitments have been realised.
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Uganda adopted and has aligned its sustainable development goals to the Global 2030 Agenda, which call for action to address inequalities and inequities in opportunity, wealth and power. Inequity impedes economic growth, increases poverty, and undermines social cohesion and voice. The notion of leaving no one behind seeks to address root causes of chronic poverty and inequitable access to services. In Uganda’s development history, Karamoja region remains the least socially and economically developed, with 61 percent of the total population of 1.2 million living in poverty. In light of the equity gaps in the Karamoja region, there is need to consistently and collaboratively explore the policy priorities to achieve equity.
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Reflection on our Commemoration Journey. Looking back in our history, Uganda over time has put population issues at the centre of its development plans and programmes.
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