It's called the "graduation" approach — both financial and moral support to help people move from extreme poverty to ...

Billions of shillings have been poured into the region. But it still remains the poorest place in Uganda, with chronic hunger ...

A program in southwest Uganda aims to address extreme poverty by giving people cash and coaching to help them build a sustainable income. But even the most established programs need to keep evolving.

At 6:40pm in Nakapelimoru village, the sun sinks behind the hills, staining the sky orange. In a small manyatta, 17-year-old ...

Child rights experts are warning that Uganda is facing escalating threats to children's safety, including internet-driven sexual exploitation, persistent poverty, high school dropout rates, and rising ...

As a child, Mulumba’s mother was poverty-stricken and unable to take proper care of him, so he was sent off to live with his aunt on the outskirts of Uganda’s capital city of Kampala. Mulumba said ...

President Yoweri Museveni views investment in energy as one of the fastest ways to transform a society and reduce poverty.

Is poverty in Uganda merely a developmental challenge, or is it also a political instrument? Elites who hold power often manipulate poverty through rhetoric, patronage, selective policy implementation ...

Uganda’s National Forestry Authority (NFA) and the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) provided practical training to women and youth in tailoring and metal fabrication. Photo: NFA and UWA When the ...

Yesterday, protests against soaring costs of living, corruption and poverty erupted in Kampala, Uganda. They were savagely repressed by the US-backed Yoweri Museveni regime, which has ruled the ...

This article explores older people’s understandings of poverty and analyses their experience of government policies for fighting poverty. It employed qualitative methods, including focus group ...

The meeting, organised by the Environment for Development Makerere (EfD MAK) Centre through its regional Inclusive Green Economy (IGE) Programme, sought to strengthen the link between research, policy ...