Uganda and Gender
- Capital:
Kampala - Population:
33398682 - Size:
236040.0 Km2
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- BRIDGE
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- The BLDS gender collection
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Search for the latest gender-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- Achieving education in conflict situations in Uganda
- Women's Refugee Commission, 2005
- This paper looks at the education situation in the north of Uganda, a region which has been and is currently in a situation of violent conflict. Interviews were conducted with NGOs, youth groups, teachers and heads of schools, local g...
- Abstinence only programmes put young Ugandans at high risk of HIV
- Human Rights Watch, 2005
- This Human Rights Watch report finds that United States (U.S.) funded organisations are scaling up programmes in Uganda that promote sexual abstinence and fidelity within heterosexual marriage to the exclusion of all other HIV prevent...
- Changes in incomes and public services affected women more than men in Uganda
- W. Busingye / Network of Ugandan Researchers and Research Users, 2002
- This study attempts to assess the different impacts of structural changes in Uganda during the 1980s and 1990s on men and women. It draws on quantitative data from interviews conducted in 100 households in Kabale district, on women...
- What do poor Ugandan villagers see as their main problems?
- D.H. Kasente / Network of Ugandan Researchers and Research Users, 2002
- This paper aims to identify factors that inhibit or enable increased productivity and well-being of women and men at household level and to analyse what institutional and community support is available to household members, drawing on...
- HIV/AIDS-related stigma more likely to affect women: report from UNAIDS
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2000
- This UNAIDS report explores the issues of HIV and AIDS-related stigmatisation and discrimination with reference to two specific case studies in India and Uganda, and through an extensive literature review. The report identifies a numb...
- Girls' education undermined in refugee camps
- C. Howgego Mugisha / Forced Migration Review, 2005
- This brief paper looks at why there are significantly fewer girls attending secondary schools in refugee camps than boys. The paper looks at the causes of the gender gap in schooling from a study in the Rhino Refugee Camp, Uganda. The...
- Community level responses to HIV/AIDS: for agricultural extension workers
- Integrated Support to Sustainable Development and Food Security Programme, 2004
- This resource guide is aimed at building the capacity of extension workers and services working with communities affected by HIV/AIDS. The guide suggests a series of actions and approaches to reducing the impact of HIV/AIDS on rural f...
- Beyond economic safeguards: social protection as social justice
- S. Devereux; R. Sabates-Wheeler / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004
- This paper, published by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), discusses the concept of social protection and the ways in which social protection policy has worked in practice, drawing on examples from Uganda.It claims that soci...
- UNFPA experience of collaboration with local organisations
- United Nations Population Fund, 2004
- This paper reports on efforts by UNFPA’s to develop culturally sensitive programming in the area of gender equity and equality, and reproductive health and rights. In particular, it examines the more inclusive programming approac...
- Causes of growth in the informal economy, who participates in it and why
- K.F. Becker / Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2004
- This study provides an overview of the characteristics of the informal economy in developing countries, identifies reasons for the significance of the informal economy, and provides recommendations for SIDA on how to address the issue...
- Isis Women's International Cross Cultural Exchange (Isis-WICCE)
- Global action oriented women's organisation based in Uganda
- Council for Economic Empowerment for Women of Africa - Uganda Chapter
- The Council for Economic Empowerment for Women of Africa (CEEWA)-Uganda chapter is a non- governmental, non-partisan and not for profit organization working to promote the economic empowerment of women in the development process.
- African Women’s Economic Policy Network, Uganda (AWEPON)
- Strengthening the capacity of women to shape economic policy
- 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
- Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)
- Promotes the use of information and communication technologies by womens organisations and individuals in Uganda
