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AfriChild's flagship annual symposium convened over 80 researchers, policymakers, and practitioners from across Uganda and East Africa to translate five years of child welfare evidence into concrete policy action. Here is what we learned — and what still needs to change.
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Three years into the Kulea Watoto partnership, our research team shares what the data reveals about ECD service quality improvements, parenting programme reach, and child developmental outcomes across six Ugandan districts including Kyaka II and Kyangwali settlements.
AfriChild's independent evaluation of UNICEF and UNCDF's STRYIDE programme reaches its midline, revealing significant improvements in financial literacy and savings behaviour among programme participants aged 14–20 across five Ugandan districts.
New AfriChild research documents a child marriage rate of 50% among girls in the Karamoja sub-region — among the highest in the country. We examine the evidence, the drivers, and the urgent policy actions needed to protect girls in Uganda's most marginalised communities.
Three years after launching its Inter-University Programme across five Ugandan institutions, AfriChild reflects on how university–research centre partnerships can transform the quality and quantity of child welfare evidence in East Africa — and what comes next.
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Highlights from AfriChild's September 2024 Speaker Series event, where senior officials from the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development engaged with new evidence on child protection system gaps across Uganda's northern districts.
Uganda's schools were closed for nearly two years during COVID-19 — the longest school closure globally. AfriChild's follow-up study examines what happened to children during that period and whether learning has recovered, with sobering evidence on learning loss, child marriage spikes, and mental health impacts.
Researchers from Columbia University and AfriChild Centre share preliminary findings from the Ubumwe 2.0 arts-based intervention study, showing measurable improvements in resilience, emotional regulation, and community belonging among participating Ugandan children.
After training over 300 policymakers and practitioners across Uganda through the PPURE model, AfriChild's team reflects honestly on why the gap between research and practice persists — and what it will take to close it for good.
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A round-up of AfriChild's most significant research outputs, programme milestones, policy wins, and partnerships from the fourth quarter of 2024 — including the launch of three new publications and our largest ever PPURE cohort.
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