Uganda

We're supporting mothers, babies and children to access quality care, by generating increased demand for health services, and building the capacity of healthcare professionals to deliver them.

By establishing neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) and maternity waiting homes, we’re encouraging women to give birth in clinics and hospitals, so reducing the number of potentially dangerous unattended home births. This is further strengthened by community outreach activities, which encourage people to understand their rights and demand the healthcare they deserve.

Our expert volunteers work within hospitals and health centres, sharing their clinical skills through training, mentoring and on-the-job coaching. In doing so, they’re building the capacity of staff to deliver specialist support to women before, during and after delivery. We’re also supporting auxiliary professionals to improve hospital management, data management and community engagement, so strengthening Uganda’s health system as a whole.

In total, we’ve directly impacted over 60,000 people, with a specific focus on supporting the most excluded populations – including people with disabilities and/or living in hard-to-reach communities.

Our inclusive education programmes focus on the Karamoja region, where we’re currently active in each of the eight districts. We work to ensure that all children – especially girls and those with special educational needs – have equitable access to high-quality inclusive education, by addressing some of the system-level barriers that can hold young learners back.

Our expert volunteers provide ongoing training and mentoring for teachers and education leaders, supporting them to improve their teaching effectiveness, and strengthening school governance and management.

By equipping teachers with the skills and knowledge they need to adopt child-centred practices, we’re building their capacity to deliver quality teaching – and in turn, improving the learning outcomes of marginalised children across the region.

Uganda’s young population presents a social and economic opportunity – but with youth unemployment rates at around 80%, many young people are missing out on their potential to earn a decent living. We build the capacity of partners to deliver market-relevant training, so equipping young people with the skills, accreditation and confidence they need to benefit from the country’s growing formal economy.

Through a network of Vocational Training Centres, our SCOPE project supported 2,000 participants to gain relevant skills and internationally-recognised qualifications, vastly improving their employability within the oil and gas industry.

Our DYNAMIC project is working to reach 157,000 out-of-school young people, supporting them to secure decent employment or self-employment, with a focus on developing new agribusinesses and microenterprises.

Through our corporate partnership with SAP, expert international volunteers are developing the entrepreneurship skills of 1,700 young Ugandans, while supporting local enterprises to grow and thrive.

Training Uganda's young population