Joy for Children-Uganda was awarded a contract by Uganda National Road Authority to manage the social risks associated with Gender Based Violence (GBV) and Violence against Children (VAC) under NERAMP (Lango Cluster) – RFP No: UNRA/SRVCS/2017-18/00095, Road rehabilitation project.
Uganda has the sixteenth highest prevalence of child marriage in the world (UNICEF) especially among the less educated and low income households are at risk of harmful practices, including child marriage and female genital mutilation.
Women and girls living in mining areas suffer enduring physical and mental health. This frustrates their ability to survive and often their families to engage in meaningful productive lives. Sometimes, men too experience violence in such settings.
The Global Fund For Human Rights
The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated movement and contact restrictions instituted to mitigate the spread of the virus have invariably created the conditions which have led to the escalation of violence against children, women and girls in most communities in Uganda.
Action to End Violence Against Children in Families, Schools and Communities in Kabarole District, is a three-year project. It’s main goal is to contribute to the reduction of violence against children in targeted families, schools and communities.
Uganda has one of the highest child marriage prevalence rates in the world at 40% (UNICEF 2016). Nearly one in every two girls is married before their 18th birthday.
Community knowledge, experiences and actions that happen organically are important in bringing to light the understanding and experience from knowledgeable community members including adolescent girls, on addressing female adolescent sexuality as it relates to ending child marriage.
The Supporting Children Opportunities through Protection and Empowerment (SCOPE) is a World Bank-funded Project implemented by the Ministry of Gender, Labour, and Social Development (MGLSD) in collaboration with a host of other Service Providers.
The girl child is seen as a commodity through which the family can earn livelihood, especially in vulnerable communities in Uganda. She is traded into marriage as a child and expected to live as an adult. Her dilemma which is rooted in traditional cultural perceptions has been escalated by COVID19.
In 2019, with concerted efforts to achieve Girls Not Bride’s vision of a world without child marriage, where girls are equal to boys and can achieve their full potential. A project proposal was developed, with funding support from People’s Post Code Lottery through Girls Not Brides, Girls Not Brides Uganda received a one-year grant to ‘Accelerate Progress towards Ending Child Marriage in Uganda’.
