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4,000 'likes' on Facebook and still counting
Two years ago, UNFPA decided to actively use social media to raise awareness for UNFPA initiatives in the country. These efforts are bearing fruit as Uganda now has the largest following of any UNFPA country office on Facebook and is continuing to expand its social media outreach activities in 2013. |
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Raising the bar! UNFPA trains on performance management
In March, UNFPA organised a four-day retreat in Jinja. It was a fully packed programme with not only team building activities but also an intensive training on performance management, leadership and responsibilities. |
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Fighting HIV/AIDS in the Police Force
"We don't need a gun to fight HIV/AIDS in the Uganda Police force," reads the message on a poster pinned in a police station in Nsambya, a Kampala suburb. "We need to work together and address it." The poster depicts a police woman wielding a gun, underlining how a gun cannot fight HIV/AIDS. That(...) |
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Changing futures: UN Joint Programme on Population transforms girls’ lives through education
Seventeen-year-old Josephine Aliru wants to be a midwife once she completes her education. A year or so ago, it seemed like her dream would go up in smoke. "I was once sent home from school because my parents couldn't pay my fees. My parents are both unemployed; I have four brothers and sisters so(...) |
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March 8 was a day for the grassroots women
The International Women's Day (IWD) is annually held on the 8th March to celebrate women's achievements across the world. |
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Setting the pace for an FGM free generation
After practicing Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) as a ‘surgeon' for four generations, the aging Sarah Kiyonga finally laid down her ‘tools' and publicly said NO to the practice. Kiyonga, who says she was born ‘long ago', cannot recall how many young girls went through the pain of(...) |
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UNFPA's 10 Years of Equipping Health Facilities with Midwives
While on her visit to Kihihi Health Center IV in Kanungu District, UNFPA Country Representative decided to go and look at the maternity ward. |
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Happy Holidays - UNFPA Staff Toast concluding a phenomenal 2012
2012 was a busy year with many milestones. |
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Launch of Police Form 3
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Making the Difference in 16 Days—Kampala
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Safety Shelters for Women Experiencing SGBV
Mbarara; November 25 2012 |
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Children by Choice not by Chance:The 2012 Population Report Speaks to Uganda
Left to Right: Ex. Director Population Secretariat - Mr. Charles Zirarema, Minister of State for Investment - Hon. Gabriel Ajedra, Finance Minister - Hon. Maria Kiwanuka and UNFPA Representative Ms. Janet Jackson after the launch. |
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Training on Result Based Management Promises Better Program Implementation
For Fred Kasule, the Senior Community Development officer of Mubende district, development of the district work plan for UNFPA activities had become a routine, while implementation was then a matter of ensuring that activities are done on time. |
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Youth and employment– Which Way Forward?
This was the resonating theme at the 2nd Annual Youth Festival held at Old Kampala Senior Secondary school from 25 to 26 August, 2012. |
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Data is Important for Local Governments
Gathering information about living conditions, age structures, natural resources, growth, movements and structures of a country's population is vital for policy formulation, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation (M&E). At Local Government (LG) level, data is important for planning(...) |
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Screening Video Shows in Schools to create Awareness against FGM/C
In 2010 Uganda adopted a national law against Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting (FGM/C). Acceleration of the implementation for this law is much needed, since several communities in Karamoja region in Uganda still practice FGM/C. Girls between the ages of 11-14 are still being cut. |
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Uganda needs a quality population, ICPD Review Reveals
“In my village, as an educated man and one with a job, the expectation on me is that I should have as many children as there are my departed ancestors,” said Simon Muyanga Lutaaya a presenter at one of Uganda’s television channels. |
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Delivering Safely, Even in Camps
KAMWEGE DISTRICT —Alice Furaha, 22 years old, was five months pregnant when she fled her home in Eastern Congo last May. |
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The Mama Kit Innovator
The Maama Kit is now a standard kit for clean, safe delivery in Uganda and has become a household name. The MOH has included it in the equipment credit line for procurement by all districts. The issue is what is the origin of Maama kit? |
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UNFPA hosts a Tweet-up discussing Early Marriage and Teenage Pregnancy
On the eve of the international day of the girl child a panel of experts from UNICEF and ministry of gender joined UNFPA to dialogue with selected social media experts in the country and stakeholders. |
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Director's Visit to Uganda: Dr. Babatunde Meets Uganda Country Office Staff
Meeting UNFPA Uganda staff at the Sheraton Hotel, Dr. Babatunde shared insights on UNFPA’s new Strategic Plan, the Family Planning Summit – the Gold Moment and UNFPA branding. |
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Making the Difference: 2012 Staff Retreat Where Ms. Edith Akiror was voted best staff in project re-engineering. The theme this year focused on ‘Making the Difference.’
The 2012 UNFPA annual retreat held between 12-15 March, brought together 75 staff from the country office. Building on the retreat theme of last year, ‘Being the Best You Can Be’, the theme this year focused on ‘Making the Difference.’ |
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UNFPA Executive Director Urges President Museveni to Invest in Young People, the need to invest in the current demographic bonus represented in the bulging population of young people
For many stakeholders, the March –April 2012 Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly in Kampala, Uganda was a point of reflection regarding previously made commitments. Behind the scenes, the IPU was an arena for advocacy where new agendas were put on the table and a renewal of momentum on(...) |
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Midwifery Trainees – Studying to Save Lives of Mothers and Babies: UNFPA’s Penninah Kyoyagala had a chat with Asiimwe Lucia.
UNFPA is sponsoring girls to study Midwifery as one of the strategies of addressing the deficit of midwives in Uganda’s health system. The idea is that, with midwives accessible to mothers in remote communities, maternal deaths will reduce due to skilled attendance during pregnancy and birth. |
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From Mosque to Mosque, He Teaches about Family Planning. Using his position, he has set out to address the issue of high population growth rate, “addictive” polygamy and to promote family planning
Hajji Taban Yassin, a for-mer Primary School teacher and Community Development Worker, is the Chairperson of Yumbe District. |
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Delivering Safely, Even in the Refugee Camps of Uganda;- Alice Furaha, 22 years old, was five months pregnant when she fled her home in Eastern Congo last May...
KAMWENGE DISTRICT, Uganda — Alice Furaha, 22 years old, was five months pregnant when she fled her home in Eastern Congo last May. When she arrived at the border with Uganda, Alice was taken to the transit centre in Kisoro and eventually transferred to Rwamwanja settlement camp in the Kamwenge(...) |
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Uganda Family Planning: 'Choice or Chance' : In Uganda today family planning is at the top of the agenda.
"In Uganda today family planning is at the top of the agenda. At the moment there are 34 million citizens but the country has one of the fastest growing populations anywhere in the world. On average each woman will give birth to six children". In villages and communities people gather to listen(...) |
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Uganda’s Banks take on the Reproductive Health Integration into Youth Capital Schemes
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Statement by Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin on International Youth Day 12 August 2012
Today, we celebrate the world’s 1.8 billion young people. And we pause to consider that 43 per cent of the world’s population is under the age of 25—a figure that rises to 60 per cent in the least developed countries. It is the vision of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, to deliver a(...) |
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Communities Want Change and say 'no' to female genital mutilation
Commemoration of the International Day on Zero Tolerance against Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) |
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Using SMS to spread the message: FGM is illegal
Over 76% of Unicef’s Ureporters know Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting is illegal. U-report is an SMS service run by UNICEF Uganda which serves as a forum for youth and children to discuss issues that matter to them. Over 32,000 responses were received in 12 hours from all over Uganda(...) |
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Female condoms excite women at Women’s Day Celebrations
Hundreds of women from all walks of life gathered in a school field in Nebbi District, northern Uganda to commemorate the International Women’s Day March 8. |
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Almost forgotten: The Batwa Community
In 1991 when the Bwindi impenetrable forest in south western Uganda was officially transformed into a national park, the Batwa community of hunters and gathers were evicted and left homeless. |
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Cutters Denounce Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Surrender Knives
AMUDAT - Uganda: It turned out a moment filled with emotions that hot and sunny afternoon in a little village of Amudat, north-east of Uganda,when a group of women publically rose up to denounce the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and surrender their cutting knives to the authorities. |
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Call to Participate in the 7 Billion Short Film Competition
Until 15 February you have the chance to put Uganda on the global map, by sending your short movie to the 7 Billion Short Film Competition. It's a great chance to highlight your work on a global forum, so make sure not to miss this opportunity. |
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UNFPA Donates 11 Ambulances Towards Improving Maternal health
Women living in eight districts in Uganda are the beneficiaries of 11 ambulances donated by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Uganda. The ambulances are meant to improve access to maternal health services in the eight benefiting districts of Oyam, Yumbe, Mubende, Kanungu, Katakwi, Kotido(...) |
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Sister Anne, Working for Women in Karamoja
The Karamoja area in Uganda is impoverished, with low contraceptive prevalence, high insecurity and violence and almost non-existent family planning (FP) services. |
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The First ever Uganda National Population Conference
The first National population conference for Uganda, un-der the theme “Advancing Uganda’s Population and development Agenda , Partners in action“ |
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16 Days of Activism
Twenty years ago, the First Women’s Global Leadership Institute came up with the international campaign coined the “16days of activism against Gender Based Violence (GBV). |
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Peace at home: How Survivors of GBV are Recovering
Victims Voices (vivo) is providing long-term psychosocial support system for survivors of GBV during the LRA war. |
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33 Million Actions in a World of 7 Billion
‘Seven billion people; seven billion actions.’ |
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Reports focusing on Population, Possibilities and Opportunities
A few days before the world hit the 7 billion mark, on 31 October 2011, the State of the World Population and the State of the Uganda Report were launched in Kampala. |
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33 Million actions in Uganda
"Our small individual actions, multiplied across the world, can lead to change that is exponential", remarked Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin the Executive Director of UNFPA in his world population day message on July 11th, 2011. Dr Babatunde's remarks were referring to a campaign by UNFPA(...) |
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French support to fight FGM/C
The French embassy in June joined the campaign to eliminate Female Genital Mutilation or cutting(FGM/C) in Uganda through a Ugsh 700 million grant to the joint programme of the Government of Uganda with UNFPA and UNICEF. The money will be used in six districts affected by FGM/C. |
| Sweden funds sexual and reproductive health services
The Government of Sweden and UNFPA signed an agreement to increase coverage of sexual and reproductive health services. |
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| UNFPA receives 6 million dollar from Peace Building Fund
This $14 million dollar project is a joint initiative of government and 8 UN agencies, under the overall coordination of the Resident Coordinator's office. |
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| Denmark boosts Sexual & Reproductive Health promotion
This 4 year collaboration aims to increase availability and demand for male and female condoms as an alternative method to other contraceptives. |
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Reducing maternal mortality: Katakwi does it!
Who knew that by simply taking record of the mothers and babies who die, a district could significantly reduce the number of women who die due to child birth related causes? Maternal death audit, as it is referred to in the technical jargon, is an in-depth and systematic review of the numbers(...) |
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International Day of the Midwife
Under a typical tropical African midmorning sun shine, excited midwives were joined by a local brass band to form an enormously joyous marching party to celebrate International Day of the Midwife (IDM). Visibly thrilled, the midwives numbering over two hundred, showed off their(...) |
| Denmark boosts Sexual and Reproductive Health promotion
This 4 year collaboration aims to increase availability and demand for male and female condoms as an alternative method to other contraceptives. |
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Launch of the UN Joint Programme on Population
A life size silhouette, representing the people of Uganda, was unveiled by the minister of health Christine Ondoa , Jotham Musinguzi who represented the Minister of Finance, Theophane Nikyema, UN Resident Coordinator in Uganda, Janet Jackson, the UNFPA country representative, and UKaid's head(...) |
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Launch of the Joint Programme on Population (On Saturday 11th June 2011, Pre-Event Friday 10th June 2011)
Brought to you by the Government of Uganda in partnership with UNITED NATIONS funded by ukAid from the DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (DFID). |
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International Womens Day 2011: Marching the Road to Development
On a hot and sunny day in Kampala, female soldiers with their marching jungle boots raised the dust in expert unison to the tunes of a band. Behind them a colorful gathering of women representing different organizations, striding along to emphasize women's contribution to the development of(...) |
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UNFPA delivers health equipment for district health centers
United Nations Population Fund delivers health equipment for district health centers and midwifery training schools to Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education and Sports |
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Better Equipment for Mothers and Babies
UNFPA officially handed over an assortment of reproductive health equipment to the Ministry of Health on 23rd March 2011. |
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Norway Funds Joint Programme on Gender Violence
"It is very important both men and women raise the issue of Gender Based Violence and create the opportunity to change their attitude towards it", the Norwegian State Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Ms. Ingrid Fiskaa said after signing the joint programme of cooperation between the Government of(...) |
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UNFPA and UNICEF Lead the way on zero tolerance on FGM
Sunday February 6, marks International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C). In Uganda, there is a less than one percent prevalence rate of FGM/C and while this seems like a very low percentage, the facts behind the numbers paint a shocking and intolerable(...) |
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Delivery of Maama Kits
On 25th January, 2011, UNFPA delivered a batch of Maama kits to Katakwi district. The kits include the minimum items needed for a clean uncomplicated delivery; mainly a bar of washing soap, gloves, plastic sheeting, cotton wool, and razor blades. It also includes a "lesu"(a piece of fabric with(...) |
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CARMMA Launch on May 5th (International Day of the Midwife) in Uganda
The Government of the Republic of Uganda - Ministry of Health and the African Union will be launching the Campaign on the Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa (CARMMA) - Uganda Chapter Namboole Stadium on May 5th, 2010. The theme for this campaign is ‘Healthy mothers and(...) |
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International Youth Day
Luwero, Uganda: Every Year the International Youth Days is celebrated on the 12th of August, this year's theme was Youth Unemployment a critical challenge to all. The national celebrations were held in Bombo Primary School sports ground in Luweero District. The Guest of Honour was His Excellency(...) |
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World Population Day 2009
The world population day 2009 was celebrated in Katakwi district in Uganda. The event was attended by the UNFPA representative and other dignitaries. Photos for world Population Day |
