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1 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT URGING GOVERNMENT TO ESTABTISH AND IMPLEMENT POLICIES AND STRENGTHEN EXISTING LAWS TO STOP TEENAGE PREGNANCIES IN UGANDA (Moved under rule 55 ond 56 of lhe Rules of Procedure of Porliomenl) WHERE AS Article 34 of the 1995 Constitution of the Republic of Ugondo recognizes the rights of the child thot include; right to heolth, right to educotion, ond right to protection from exploitotion; AND WHEREAS Ugondo in lg90 rotified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) which imposes on obligotion on government to ensure thot oll children, without ony form of discriminotion benefit from speciol protection meosures ond ossistonce, hove occess to services such os educotion ond heolth core, hove the obility to develop their personolities ond tolents to the fullest potentiol ond porticipote in ochieving their rights in on occessible ond octive monner; AWARE THAT Ugondo's populotion hos drosticolly grown from 34.6 millionin 2014, to on estimoted 40 million thus on onnuol growth rote of 3% which reflects o high fertility rote of 5.4 ond one of the contributing foctors is teenoge pregnoncy which occording to the Ministry of Heolth stotistics increosed from 24% in 201 I to 25%in 201 6 omong women oged l5-19 yeors; AND AWARE THAT more thon 600,000 teenogers become pregnont onnuolly with 3 in l0 teenogers becoming pregnont before they reoch 20 yeors of oge, 10%- 40% of young girls hoving unintended pregnoncy ond over 300,000 bobies born in Ugondo to odolescent oged l5-19 yeors; FURTHER AWARE THAT teenogers in rurol oreos ore more likely to hove storted childbeoring (27% of women oged l5-19 yeors) thon those in urbon oreos (19%): for instonce 45% of uneducoted girls hove o child before their lBtn birthdoy, compored to I 6% of girls who hove ottoined secondory educotion; UJ 1 2 COGNIZANT THAT the moin driver of teenoge pregnCIncy is o lorge sexuolly octive youthful generotion with limited occess to controceptives ond sexuolity educotion; occording to Ugondo Demogrophic ond Heolth survey
 ol 2016 omong women ond men oged l5-19 yeors, 10% of women ond l7% of men hod sexuol intercourse by oge 15; FURTHER COGNIZANT THAT the risk of deoth during childbirih is 2-4 times higher omong teen mothers wherein teenoge pregnoncy occounts for obout 70,000 deoths onnuolly, the mortoliiy ond morbidity rotes ore higher omong infonts born to teen mothers ond it is believed to be al 30% or more omong bobies whose mothers were oged l5 -19 yeors; NOTING THAT in developing countries like Ugondo where heolth core is limited, ieenoge mothers ore of o greoter risk of experiencing negotive consequences becouse of their physicol immoturity, vulnerobility to older men, ond limited educotion, skills, finonces, ond other resources; teenoge pregnoncy occounts for obout 25% of the 20 million unsofe obortions in Ugondo every yeor; FURTHER NOTING THAT teenoge mothers ore unoble to support themselves ond ore most likely unoble to support their children in terms of providing for their needs like educotion, heolth core, housing ond other bosic needs ond olso teenoge pregnoncy leods io devostoting heolth consequences for girls os odolescents ore not yet physicolly reody for pregnoncy or childbirth, ond ore therefore more vulneroble to complicotions like fistulo; CONCERNED FURTHER THAT the obsence of o robust slreom lined government sirotegy to estoblish ond implement Notionol policies, strotegies ond progrommes on reproductive heolth ond sex educotion to erodicote teen pregnoncies os well os weok relevont lows ogoinst culturol proctices thot encouroge child morrioges, hove greotly contributed to the chollenge of teenoge pregnoncy; It--<- ?4 2 I 3 CONVICED THAT there is urgent need to conclude ond poss the Notionol Policy on Sexuol ond Reproductive heolth ond Rights ond the Notionol Frome Work for Sexuolity Educotion os o meons of reducing on the burden of eorly pregnoncies; NOW WHEREFORE be it resolved by Porlioment thot Government; L Fost trocks the possing of the Notionol Policy on
 Sexuol ond Reproductive heolth ond implements the recently opproved oge oppropriote sexuolity educotion Notionol Fromework 2.
Fost trocks the effective implemeniotion of the Notionol Strotegy on ending Child Morrioges ond Teenoge Pregnoncies in Ugondo 20,l5.

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Develops o comprehensive multi-sectorol strotegy to overt the chollenge of teenoge pregnCIncy ond hormonizes legislotion on morrioge to provide for 1B yeors os the minimum legol oge to morry 4.
Strengthens the enforcement of lows ogoinst defilement, rope ond other forms of child obuse ond estoblishes youth friendly corners ot heolth units 5. lncreoses the efforts in meeting women's controceptive needs os o criticol strotegy to help women ond teenogers ovoid unintended pregnoncies 6.

Reviews the odolescent heolth policy to updote issues of odolescent heolth policy to updote issues of odolescent heolth in notionol ond globol development trend ond context 7.
Expedites the development of the school heolth policy to guide ond rejuvenote school heolth progrommes Rt.

Hon.

Speoker, I beg to move V 3 ' Mover: Dr. Bukenyo Micheol IGA (Hon) BUKUYA COUNTY AND CHAIRPERSON COMMITTEE OF HEALTH l. Seconder: Hon.

Spellonzo Bogumo (MP) ir4--- DISTRICT WOMAN REPRESENTATIVE KYENJONJO 2.

Seconder: Hon.

Robinoh Sentongo(lv1P) C_S DISTRICT WOMAN REPRESENTATIVE KYOTERA ) 4 4