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UNFPA Uganda Annual Report 2019: Accelerating the Promise, Delivering Rights
The ICPD25 Summit in Nairobi created unprecedented momentum to advance sexual reproductive health and rights. Against this background, UNFPA Uganda and its partners undertook interventions to support Uganda’s quest to invest in Human Capital Development as a key strategy to advance the country’s development aspirations as spelt out in the National Development Plan. In our implementation, we took deliberate effort to ensure that the various dimensions of Uganda’s demographic dynamics and diversity are integrated in planning and budgeting, while ensuring that the basic reproductive health needs and rights of people in humanitarian contexts are met, so that no one is left behind.
UNFPA Uganda Humanitarian Situation Report June 2020 - Issue No.6
According to the UNFPA Uganda June 2020 humanitarian situation report, in the month of June, a total of 2,382 pregnant women were referred for emergency obstetric care through strengthened ambulance system compared to 1,517 in April.
Uganda Family Planning Atlas
The Family Planning Atlas provides an overview of factors associated with family planning use as well as trends in the indicators. The Atlas also provides a pictorial presentation of the family planning situation in Uganda, highlighting inequalities in utilization and service delivery. This information is useful in informing policy advocacy as well as programming interventions.
Against My Will
Every day, hundreds of thousands of girls around the world are subjected to practices that harm them physically or psychologically, or both, with the full knowledge and consent of their families, friends and communities.
UNFPA Uganda Humanitarian Situation Report April 2020 - Issue No.4
With support from donors, UNFPA continued to play a leading role in ensuring access to lifesaving sexual and reproductive health and rights information and services as well as prevention of gender based violence and empowering women, adolescent girls and young people in refugee hosting districts and in emergency situations. This situation report is summary of UNFPA's humanitarian interventions in the month of April, 2020.
UNFPA Uganda Humanitarian Situation Report March 2020 - Issue No.3
With support from donors, UNFPA continued to play a leading role in ensuring access to lifesaving sexual and reproductive health and rights information and services as well as prevention of gender based violence and empowering women, adolescent girls and young people in refugee hosting districts and in emergency situations. This situation report is summary of UNFPA's humanitarian interventions in the month of March, 2020.
CERF rapid response to landslides and flood survivors in Bundibugyo, Bududa and Sironko districts
From September 2019, several districts in Uganda experienced flash floods and landslides due to heavy rains. Continuing through the end of the year, the most affected were Sironko and Bududa districts in Eastern Uganda and Bundibugyo district in Western Uganda. At least 38 people were reported dead and over 150 injured.
Addressing GBV in the Workplace: A Collective Responsibility and an Economic Imperative
Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is undeniably one of the most common forms of human rights abuses. In Uganda, it affects 1 in 5 women aged 15-49 (UDHS, 2016). GBV takes many forms: physical, sexual, psychological and economic – but physical and sexual violence carried out by intimate partners interfere more with women’s full and equal participation in the workforce.
UNFPA Uganda Humanitarian Situation Report February 2020 Issue No. 2
With support from donors, UNFPA continued to play a leading role in ensuring access to lifesaving sexual and reproductive health and rights information and services as well as prevention of gender based violence and empowering women, adolescent girls and young people in refugee hosting districts and in emergency situations. This situation report is summary of UNFPA's humanitarian interventions in the month of February, 2020.
Generation Cairo: Youth Entrepreneurs leading social change in Uganda
Young people continue to demonstrate that when they are supported, they can lead the change they want to see.