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20 Dec

‘Rural women and children suffer most from food insecurity and malnutrition’

  • By Alon Mwesigwa
  • | Category EPRC Highlights, Press Releases

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…

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11 Dec

Legislators Pledge to Use Sugarcane Study Evidence to Improve the Sub-Sector

  • By Alon Mwesigwa
  • | Category EPRC Highlights, Press Releases

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…

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02 Dec

How to close the gender care gap in Sub Saharan Africa

  • By Madina Guloba
  • | Category Blog, EPRC Highlights

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…

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24 Nov

How can Uganda enhance secondary education enrolment for the girl child?

  • By Florence Nakazi
  • | Category Blog, COVID-19, EPRC Highlights

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.…

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24 Nov

Will government’s strategy of prioritising support to large scale farmers prevent hunger in Uganda?

  • By Brian Sserunjogi
  • | Category Blog, EPRC Highlights

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…

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EPRC hosts high-level dialogue on making labour externalisation safer.

  • By Alon Mwesigwa
  • | Category EPRC Highlights, Press Releases

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…

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07 Nov

Unpaid Care Work: ‘My husband has started trusting me with money’

  • By Alon Mwesigwa
  • | Category EPRC Highlights, Press Releases

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…

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26 Oct

Vulnerability of product standards enforcement in Uganda

  • By Aida Kibirige Nattabi
  • | Category Blog, EPRC Highlights

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…

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25 Oct

Poor absorption capacity derail service delivery at local government level

  • By Umar Kabanda
  • | Category Blog, EPRC Highlights

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…

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22 Oct

Experts vouch for apprenticeship to solve youth unemployment in Uganda

  • By Alon Mwesigwa
  • | Category EPRC Highlights, EPRC In The News, Press Releases

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…

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Does Uganda’s food policy environment respond to the food safety needs of the population? February 2, 2023   871.76 KB

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COVID-19 aftereffects: The impact of the increase in school fees on education businesses in Uganda January 7, 2023   360.48 KB

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The Ebola Virus outbreak affects business operations, but the business outlook remains optimistic January 7, 2023   689.53 KB

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