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How can Uganda address gender data gaps in the land sector?
(Economic Policy Research Centre, 2020)
Land is one of the most important resource held by Ugandans. However, the lack of real time, clear and accurate disaggregated gender statistics has repeatedly made it a challenge to develop policy responses to inequalities ...
Enforcement of human trafficking laws: Implications for gender and labour externalization in Uganda.
(Economic Policy Research Centre, 2020)
The increased desire by the youth to seek employment opportunities outside Uganda has led to a steady rise in incidents of human trafficking. Indeed, transnational trafficking—a silent and often invisible activity—is by ...
Constraints to girls’ access to secondary education in Uganda
(Economic Policy Research Centre, 2020)
The Government of Uganda has made significant strides towards achieving Sustainable development goal (SDG) 4 targets—which aims at ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education. For secondary education, government has ...
Delayed access to justice for sexual gender based violence in Uganda and implications for gender SDG targets.
(Economic Policy Research Centre, 2020)
Although the number of sexual gender based violence cases has declined during the past five years, prosecution and sanctioning of these cases remain very low. Worse still, cases that make it to the courts of law are ...
The Burden Of Physical Gender Based Violence In Uganda
(Economic Policy Research Centre, 2020)
This brief uses the 2016 UDHS survey to shed light on factors that perpetuate physical gender based violence (GBV). Results of the survey reveal that much of the physical violence is predominantly perpetuated by intimate ...