UNICEF Uganda - Country Programme support 2021-2025
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The overall goal of the programme is to support national efforts to accelerate the realization of children’s rights and progress towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals for children. The programme is guided by the principles of children’s rights, equity, gender equality and resilience. The vision is for all boys and girls in Uganda, especi...
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The overall goal of the programme is to support national efforts to accelerate the realization of children’s rights and progress towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals for children. The programme is guided by the principles of children’s rights, equity, gender equality and resilience. The vision is for all boys and girls in Uganda, especially the most vulnerable and disadvantaged, to realize their rights and have equal opportunity to survive and thrive. The programme is implemented through four thematic programmes: 1) Child survival and development, 2) Basic education and adolescent development, 3) Child protection and 4) Social policy.
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Result
Some selected results: Maternal and Newborn Health Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) Scale-up: Funding allowed UNICEF to move into Western parts of Uganda, where dense populations of children reside and can be reached at scale. Saving newborn lives is a key priority for reducing under 5 years deaths, and Kangaroo Mother care is a key, safe and affordable strategy to save lives. UNICEF enabled the Ministry of Health to scale-up Kangaroo mother care services in the 7 supported districts of Isingiro, Kamwenge, Kasese, Kikuube, Kyegegwa, Mubende and Ntungamo from 14 (9%) to 37 (33%) of the 136 maternal and neonatal health facilities in the targeted districts. i This has translated into the improvement of KMC uptake at the supported health facilities from an average uptake of 49 per cent by end of 2021 to an average of 83 per cent by the end of the last quarter of 2022. A total of 2,276 babies low birth weight babies 884 of whom were preterm were enrolled in KMC care in 2022. Because of the short timeframe, no significant improvement in the level of institutional neonatal mortality has been noted yet (3-5 years needed to see mortality change, such as in West Nile where 10 per cent mortality reduction has been observed using the same strategies) Adolescent health and wellbeing In response to the surge in adolescent pregnancies and sustained high numbers of new HIV infections among Adolescents, Girls, Young Women (AGYW), and as such the need to provide integrated and differentiated health and HIV services for pregnant adolescents, UNICEF supported the MoH to revise the National Group Antenatal/ Postnatal Care guidelines (GANC/PNC) which provide norms and standards for quality care for pregnant adolescents. This was followed by the orientation of 80 (35 male, 45 female) national trainers and four regional training of trainers (TOTs) to reach 140 regional trainers, who will support capacity building of the frontline workers within UNICEF supported districts to provide at scale- quality peer supported adolescent friendly health and HIV services during pregnancy and the postpartum period. On job coaching and mentorship was undertaken by UNICEF on Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM), family MUAC, supplies management, and Health Management Information System (HMIS) nutrition reporting. Overall, health workers form 27 health facilities across the district were mentored. Baby Friendly Health Facility Assessment was conducted in 16 health facilities at level III and above. Quarterly coaching and mentorship of the health workers by national, regional coaches, and district mentors in 16 health facilities across the district. Findings from this assessment revealed staff capacity gaps, lack of BFHI guidelines and SOPs, non-functional weighing scales. To address these gaps, UNICEF continues to provide quarterly DCTs are provided to support implementation of developed action plans and to support improving quality services through CQI/onjob mentorships. This contributed to improved quality of key impact nutrition interventions provided caregivers and children in the district. For example, 61,180 pregnant women received IYCF counselling, and 13,611 mothers were supported to initiate breastfeeding within 1 hour after birth by appropriately trained health care providers. This is expected to improve with intensified technical support through UNICEF district consultants and MoH technical teams.
UNICEF Ugandas country programme consists of four thematic programmes. In addition, UNICEF have added a fifth component focusing on programme effectiveness. The specific overall programme outcomes are as follows: 1. Child survival and development: By 2025, newborns, children and adolescent boys and girls, especially the most disadvantaged and those living in humanitarian situations and urban settings, have access to and the use of quality integrated-health, nutrition and HIV services and benefit from a more nurturing, protective and clean environment. This will be achieved by (a) An integrated package of quality services for pregnant and lactating women, including pregnant adolescents, and newborns; (b) An essential package of quality preventative, promotive and curative services for infants and young children; (c) A package of quality services for adolescent boys and girls, including programmes aimed at preventing HIV, establishing healthy lifestyle behaviours and diets and reducing harmful exposures and risk-taking; (d) A package of high-impact nutrition interventions for infants, children, adolescents and women of reproductive age; (e) Safe water, sanitation and hygiene. 2. Basic education and adolescent development: By 2025, girls and boys 3 to 19 years of age achieve age-appropriate learning outcomes, in the following ways: (a) Boys and girls 3 to 5 years of age, particularly the rural, urban poor and refugees, access quality pre-primary education through formal and non-formal learning centres; (b) Girls and boys demonstrate increased learning achievement in literacy and numeracy through increased access to inclusive, equitable and relevant quality education; (c) Adolescent girls and boys are empowered with life skills, active citizenship and/or employability. 3. Child protection: By 2025, children in Uganda are free from all forms of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation, including harmful practices, and realize their right to legal identity by: (a) Strengthening legislative, policy, budgetary and institutional frameworks that protect children from all forms of violence; (b) Capacitating children, families and communities to identify risks and prevent and respond to all forms of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of children; (c) Ensuring that children and their families are accessing quality multisectoral protection services, including birth registration. 4. Social policy: By 2025, child-sensitive evidence and analysis inform more effective and efficient planning, budgeting and implementation of programmes for reducing child deprivation, inequities and gender inequalities, especially for the most vulnerable and marginalized children and adolescents, by: (a) Strengthened national capacity to generate and utilize robust evidence on child poverty and vulnerabilities, and public finance to reduce socioeconomic disparities and improve access to basic services, while promoting social inclusion; (b) Strengthened national capacity to support the implementation of the National Social Protection Policy framework through contextualized interventions in urban areas and along the humanitarian-development continuum; (c) An enabling environment for child-rights governance that includes strengthening the capacity of national institutions, civil society and other key stakeholders to advocate for children, while advancing child rights and participation. 5. Programme effectiveness: By 2025, the UNICEF Uganda country programme is efficiently designed, coordinated, managed and supported to meet quality programming standards in achieving results for children. Under this component, in addition to strengthening results-based planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting, attention will be devoted to facilitating cross-programme coordination and the integration of disaster risk reduction as well as humanitarian-development assistance across programmes. Public communications, advocacy and private-sector engagement will be undertaken to mobilize leadership and communities for the childrens rights agenda.
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