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|February 24, 2021Breaking Gender Stereotypes: Research Paper StatementPhotography: Ahmad Mahmoud Today SIHA launches its latest publication entitled Negotiating Space: Sudanese Women’s Access to Vocational Education & Employment. Drawing on SIHA’s Breaking Ge...
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|August 31, 2020LETTERS FROM ERITREA: Women reflect on their access to rights and services (2020)Cover Design: Ayman Hussein Letters from Eritrea: Women reflect on their access to rights and services (2020) features testimonies adapted from a focus group discussion conducted with five wome...
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|March 10, 2020GENDER BRIEFING – SUDANGENDER BRIEFING – SUDAN The aim of this Gender Briefing is to examine four countries that have, over the past decade, passed and adopted gender-progressive legislation and p...
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|March 10, 2020GENDER BRIEFING – ETHIOPIAGENDER BRIEFING – ETHIOPIA The aim of this Gender Briefing is to examine four countries that have, over the past decade, passed and adopted gender-progressive legislation an...
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|March 10, 2020GENDER BRIEFING – UGANDAGENDER BRIEFING – UGANDA Despite a history of political upheaval and violent conflicts, Uganda has enjoyed relative peace and stability since 2006 due to the ...
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|November 23, 2019FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS, REFLECTIONS ON CUSTOMARY LAW AND THE IMPRISONMENT OF WOME...FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS, REFLECTIONS ON CUSTOMARY LAW AND THE IMPRISONMENT OF WOMEN IN SOUTH SUDAN An extensive, participatory field research undertaken with activists, g...
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|January 1, 2016NEGOTIATING PATRIARCHY: MEN AS ALLIES AGAINST VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMENNEGOTIATING PATRIARCHY: MEN AS ALLIES AGAINST VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN This newly released SIHA publication was developed primarily as a guide for social activists involved in...
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|March 1, 2015THIRD CLASS CITIZENS: WOMEN AND CITIZENSHIP IN SUDANTHIRD CLASS CITIZENS: WOMEN AND CITIZENSHIP IN SUDAN Shedding light on the scope and nature of discriminative laws and practices women are facing in Sudan, this paper touche...
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|March 1, 2013REINFORCING COMMUNITY ACTIVISM AND INTERGENERATIONAL BRIDGESREINFORCING COMMUNITY ACTIVISM AND INTERGENERATIONAL BRIDGES Four papers explore the gap between the women’s movement as a relevant political and social force empowering wom...
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|March 1, 2013LETTERS FROM ERITREA, REFUGEE WOMEN TELL THEIR STORYLETTERS FROM ERITREA, REFUGEE WOMEN TELL THEIR STORY Stories of Eritrean women reflect grave violations of human rights in their country and beyond. An autocratic government...
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|March 1, 2012BETWEEN MODERNISM AND HERITAGEBETWEEN MODERNISM AND HERITAGE How effective is the legal protection of women’s rights in remote areas of Ethiopia – a country with one of the most comprehensive and equita...
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|March 1, 2009BEYOND TROUSERS, The Public Order Regime and the Human Rights of Women and Girls in S...BEYOND TROUSERS, The Public Order Regime and the Human Rights of Women and Girls in Sudan Mapping the experiences of women with the application of the public order laws, pol...
GENDER BRIEFING – UGANDA
Despite a history of political upheaval and violent conflicts, Uganda has enjoyed relative peace and stability since 2006 due to the reinstatement of multi-party democracy, a strong constitution that protects women’s human rights, and an end to two decades of conflict in Northern Uganda. Though still below the 7.2% target set in the first National Development Plan, economic growth averaged 5.5% between 2010/11 and 2013/14. The number of people living in poverty fell from 56% in 1992 to 24.5% in 2011, and further fell to 19.7% in 2013. However, economic growth has been uneven, as has its impact on poverty, as shown by the persistence of significant regional disparities, notwithstanding an overall improvement in the Gini coefficient measuring inequality from 0.426 in 2009/10 to 0.395 in 2012/13 (UBOS 2014 b). Overall poverty is lower but significant regional disparities persist.
While Uganda has made impressive gains in reducing the overall level of poverty, these have been limited to central and western regions, and marked regional disparities persist. Poverty rates remain high and relatively stagnant for the Eastern and Northern regions. This has been attributed in part to conflicts that engulfed those regions for much of the 1980s and 1990s. Nevertheless, poverty in East Central (Busoga) and the rest of the Eastern region remains entrenched, even though these areas have been largely peaceful over the last 30 years. Rural areas lag behind, especially in terms of employment and human development outcomes. Karamoja sub-region is the most economically disadvantaged area. 65% of its population lives below the poverty line. Ranking 110 out of 148 countries assessed, Uganda has a high gender inequality index (0.517) as measured by maternal
mortality, adolescent fertility rates, and empowerment and economic activity.