Situation analySiS

Situation analySiS of Children in uganda 2015Additionally, the report highlights areas where the current situation in Uganda diverges fromnationally and internationally defined targets and goals for children, including patterns oroccurrences of multiple deprivations.1.4 REPORT STRUCTUREFollowing this introduction, Chapter 2 presents the country context, focusing on social,economic and demographic factors, and exploring the cross-cutting issues of gender andinequality. Chapters 3 to 6 focus on children’s rights to survival (incorporating health andnutrition); education and development (including ECD interventions, primary and secondaryschooling, and vocational training); protection (incorporating violence against children,child marriage, adolescent pregnancy, trafficking, and child labour); and participation(representing children’s right to express their views freely in all matters affecting them,as well as the right to receive information). Each chapter assesses Uganda’s progress inrealising children’s rights, and considers trends and challenges, as well as the impact ofnational laws and policies. Chapter 7 summarises the main policy challenges in delivering aproductive and inclusive framework for children’s development in Uganda across the fourdimensions of children’s rights, and presents recommendations to advance this agenda.Appendix 1 lists the overarching frameworks and national laws and policies that underpinprogrammes relating to the four rights areas covered in Chapters 3 to 6.Finally, because national-level indicators are mathematical averages, and because thereare vast and growing differences in access to services and the realisation of children’srights between regions and across income levels, Appendix 2 provides additional analysismeasuring patterns of inequity across the country. This analysis is based on 43 indicatorsrelating to children’s rights and access to services depending on where they live, theirhousehold income and the education and age of their mother.INtroDUCtIoN21