Although Uganda has made promising socio-economic strides since emerging from decades of conflict, many children still face myriad challenges there. Despite a growing economy, a large percentage of the population of 30-million+ people still live in poverty, stretching families’ capacities to provide a protective environment for their children to develop. Moreover, Uganda is one of the countries most affected by HIV and AIDS in the world, a situation that has orphaned over at least 1.2 million Ugandan children and severely tested extended kinship networks’ capacity to care for children. In this challenging context, the AfriChild Centre of Excellence is creating the evidence necessary to show what works to support families, communities, civil society, and government in caring for and protecting children.
Program Learning Group Description
The AfriChild Centre of Excellence on the African Child is a multidisciplinary research and training center seeking to improve children’s lives in Uganda and the East African region by building the evidence base through rigorous research on children’s protection and well-being. Hosted at Makerere University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences, which is one of the core founding partners, the AfriChild Centre founding consortium also includes the CPC Learning Network Secretariat at Columbia University, UNICEF Uganda, TPO Uganda, ChildFund Uganda, and the Ministry of Gender, Labour, and Social Development. The AfriChild Centre will also become the institutional home of the CPC Learning Network’s Programme Learning Group (PLG), a 30+ member coalition of civil society, government, and academic members seeking to promote learning around child protection and family welfare.
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