Energetic men and boys are fleeing villages for paid work in urban centres, leaving women and children to suffer food insecurity and malnutrition. Hon. Lawrence Bategeka, the former MP of Hoima Municipality, said as land becomes less productive for food production, men have run away. Women and children…
Members of Parliament in Uganda have pledged to use evidence generated from the sugarcane sub-sector study to amplify the farmers’ rights and place sugar industry on a sustainable growth path. The commitment was made during a high-level policy forum where EPRC presented to MPs on different committees of…
Due to gender bias and the patriarchal nature of many African economies, care work, especially unpaid, is considered a woman’s prerogative. This is often intertwined with negative social and cultural norms. In this context, is paternity leave a realistic solution to closing the gender care gap? The Ugandan…
Last month, Uganda joined the rest of the world to commemorate the International Day of the Girl Child under the theme “Our time is now-our rights, our future”. One thing is clear – there is need to for address constraints that affect girls’ transition to Uganda’s secondary school system.…
The Global Report on Food Crises (2022) reports that close to 193 million people are acutely food insecure and are in need of urgent assistance across 53 countries African countries. This represents an increase of nearly 40 million people compared to the previous high reached in 2020. The…
Uganda government should increase budget allocation for consular services and empowering of the embassies to engage in monitoring of the migrant workers in addition to the other responsibilities arising from labour externalisation. This was a call by H.E. Ambassador, Margaret Kedisi, Minister Counsellor, at the Ministry of Foreign…
In pairs, they walked forward and sat side by side to share their stories about steps they were taking to share care work in their homes. Couple after couple, they told of the changes they were experiencing in their households as men showed willingness to share care work…
The death of 14 people in August after they consumed a substandard liquor in Gulu is one indicator of the heavy cost we are paying for the poor consumer protection against harmful products. While the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS), the body mandated to certify that products…
Local Government (LG) administration units in Uganda have continued to have inadequate funding to provide basic public service goods. Yet an indicator of a bigger problem than funding, is that many of these units return money to the consolidated fund despite lacking basic education and health services, among…
Access to long-term internship and apprenticeship opportunities for young people in Uganda may be key to solving the unemployment problem, experts have said. Dr. Madina Guloba, a research fellow at Economic Policy Research Centre, said there was “need to open and increase apprenticeships within the employment institutions and…