Uganda and Children and young people
- Capital:
Kampala - Population:
33398682 - Size:
236040.0 Km2
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- The BLDS children & young people collection
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- Search for the latest children & young people-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- Interventions with private medicine sellers improve child survival prospects in Uganda and Nigeria
- G. Greer; A. Akinpelumi; L. Madueke; B. Plowman / Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival, USAID, 2004
- This report, produced by Basics II, describes the design, implementation and preliminary results of interventions in Nigeria and Uganda to improve practice and product quality among private providers, or patent medicine vendors (PMV)....
- Decentralisation fails to bring expected improvements to maternal and child health services in Uganda
- F. Mwesigye / Partners for Health Reformplus, 1999
- This paper from Partnerships for Health Reform reports on a study to examine the impact of health sector decentralisation in Uganda on maternal and child health (MCH) services. The main hypothesis of the study was that MCH, a priority...
- Poverty is the main barrier to completing hospital referral for children in Uganda
- J. Nsungwa-Sabiiti; S. Peterson; W. Were; X. Nsabagasani; G. Magumba; J. Nambooze; G. Mukasa / The Lancet, 2004
- This article, published in The Lancet, reports on a study examining the constraints faced by caretakers in completing referrals of severely ill children to hospital in Uganda. The study found that only 28 per cent of children had comp...
- Study highlights the importance of maternal education for determining child health in rural Uganda
- H. Wamani; T. Tylleskar; A. N. Astrom; J. K. Tumwine; S. Peterson / International Journal for Equity in Health, 2004
- This article, published in the International Journal for Equity and Health, reports on the factors influencing child health inequalities in rural Uganda. It presents findings from a study of the links between four socio-economic indic...
- Practical examples of child justice in Africa
- J. Sloth-Nielsen; J. Gallinetti / Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2004
- [File size 97910Kb] This manual presents innovative examples of applied local practices of child justice in Africa. The topics mainly relate to programme delivery, to the expansion of services to children and to integrating hum...
- Guidelines on the IMCI could make significant contribution to mortality reduction
- S. Gove / World Health Organization, 1997
- This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, describes the technical basis for the guidelines for the integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI), which are presented in the WHO/UNICEF training cours...
- Adolescents play key roles in peace building: case studies from around the world
- United Nations Children's Fund, 2004
- Nine case studies are presented in this paper to demonstrate how participation in peace building enhances the protection of adolescents in conflict and post conflict situations. It also aims to illustrate how participation contributes...
- Child warfare in northern Uganda
- Human Rights Watch, 2003
- This report discusses the current situation in Uganda in relation to child abduction and recruitment into warfare. The report makes a number of recommendations to parties involved. Currently in northern Uganda: c...
- Human displacement in northern Uganda
- Women's Refugee Commission, 2004
- An estimated 50,000 people known as night commuters, most of them children, adolescents and women, abandon their homes each night for town centres seeking safety from attack by the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a fractional...
- Breaking down barriers: youth-friendly programmes enhance adolescents’ access to sexual health services
- C. Moya / Advocates for Youth, 2002
- This paper, produced by Advocates for Youth, explores the barriers that frequently deter African youth from obtaining urgently needed sexual and reproductive health services. Research shows that barriers relate primarily to specific a...
- Raising Voices
- Preventing violence against women and children
- African Friends in Need Network (AFINNET)
- Uganda based Christian organisation working to promote rural community development initiatives
