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Abridged curriculum helps teachers cover 2-year backlog
Under normal circumstances, Ugandan teachers usually have difficulty covering the teaching load for a year as stipulated in the school curriculum. So, when schools were closed for nearly two years after COVID-19 struck at the beginning of 2020, bridging the gap created would ordinarily also have taken two years. B...
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Napak child mothers shock society by outperforming other girls
The past three years have been quite eventful for Hellen Moru, a 19-year-old schoolgirl in the Napak District of the semi-arid Karamoja sub region in north eastern Uganda. She was just starting Standard five at Lomuno Primary School when all schools in the country were closed due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Like it ...
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Hungry teen mother of twins soldiers on, inspiring other girls
For the past seven years, the only constant in 17-year-old Rosetta Winnie Aluoch’s life has been hunger, punctuated daily with hours of hard labour. Five months ago, the intensity of her hunger increased after she gave birth to twin girls, Godmercy Apio and Godbless Acen, whom she has to breastfeed though she neve...
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At 16, Mary encourages older girls to return to school after pregnancy
She has never gotten pregnant and doesn’t intend to before finishing her formal education, which will be ten years in the future. But 16-year-old Mary Laido spends most her time sensitizing other adolescents, many of them older than herself to return to school after getting pregnant and giving birth. Mary sat her ...
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Teenagers pledge to abstain from sex to prevent pregnancies, school dropouts in Busoga sub-region
The ‘True Love Waits’ chant reverberated across Wanyange Girls' School in Jinja City, where 37 Secondary Schools from 11 districts converged on 29 September 2022 for a high-level dialogue to address defilement, child marriage, teenage pregnancy and promote positive parenting. Over 2,400 students signed pledge card...
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What more can be done to curb teenage pregnancies and create a safe space in schools and communities
The High-Level Dialogue organized by the Government of Uganda in partnership with UNICEF and UNFPA brought together critical stakeholders in the Busoga sub-region at Wanyange Girls' School to address defilement, child marriage, teenage pregnancies and promote positive parenting. Under the theme 'Protect the Girl, ...
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COVID-19 and Child Marriage in Uganda
This policy brief highlights findings from research on the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on harmful practices in Uganda. The brief aims to provide an up-to-date snapshot of child marriage in the country, based on evidence generated on how the pandemic has been impacting the risks and vulnerabil...
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Child Marriage and Female Genital Mutilation in Uganda
This report collates the findings of a study on the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis on child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM) in Uganda. The study collected evidence and perspectives to understand how the pandemic has impacted the vulnerabilities of adolescent girls and boys to thes...
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Child Marriage and Female Genital Mutilation in Uganda Research Report
This report collates the findings of a study on the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis on child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM) in Uganda. The study collected evidence and perspectives to understand how the pandemic has impacted the vulnerabilities of adolescent girls and boys to thes...
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The National Strategy to End Child Marriage and Teenage Pregnancy 2022/2023 – 2026/2027
The second National strategy to end child marriage and teenage pregnancy 2022/2023 – 2026/2027 is a holistic, comprehensive framework that reflects the global and national commitment of the Government of Uganda to end the practice of child marriage and other forms of violence against girls including teenage pregna...
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Government launches ‘Protect the Girl, Save the Nation’ campaign
It’s been one year and eight months since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared. Nations continue to grapple with the disease and its impact. Unfortunately, children still bear the brunt of the pandemic. As scientists, leaders, politicians, promote efforts to slow the pandemic, the global pandemic threatens to become...
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Mid-term Evaluation of the National Strategy to End Child Marriage and Teenage Pregnancy in Uganda
The report presents the findings of the Mid-Term Evaluation (MTE) of the National Strategy to End Child Marriage and Teenage Pregnancy (NSCM&TP) in Uganda. The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD) commissioned the MTE with support from United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The evaluatio...