With Support from Plan International Uganda, this Project aims at ending child marriage in post conflict northern Uganda; with funding from Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Government of Finland through Plan International Finland. This Program is firmly anchored in a human-rights and gender trans formative approach to empower girls to be free from harmful practices , have a voice and enjoy their rights in a society where gender equality is realized to achieve better out comes for girls against child marriages in Uganda.
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16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM
‘We won't stop until every girl is safe’ today our prevention of violence against children’ team together with Raising Voices team and DIS engaged through a school based focus group discussion with good school committee of parents, teachers and children and parents at one of the primary school where great... -
Orientation of health workers and the district stake holders on the National Adolescent Health Policy and Service Standards;
With an aim of developing a district based adolescent health committee through which the policy can be disseminated to the community in order to enhance service standards and effective implementation of the policy on SRHR/YFS in Lira and Alebtong Districts. FIRD Uganda believes in ending child marriage and teenage pregnancies... -
Orientation of stakeholders on Participatory School Governance methodology held on 27th September, 2018.
World Bank ranked Uganda among the top 20 ‘hotspot’ countries for child marriages. In 2013 it was ranked 16th out of 25 with the highest rate of early marriages with 46% marrying before the age of 18 and 12% before 15 years, making child marriage cases in northern Uganda increase...