UNICEF Uganda - Country Programme support 2021-2025 UNICEF Uganda - Landprogramstöd 2021-2025 Programmets övergripande mål är att stödja nationella ansträngningar för att påskynda förverkligandet av barns rättigheter samt uppfyllelse av de globala utvecklingsmålen för
barn. Barns rättigheter, jämlikhet, jämställdhet och resiliens är vägledande principer för
programmet. Visionen är att alla flickor och pojkar i Uganda, framförallt de mest sårbara, ska få sina rättigheter tillgodosedda och ha jämlika möjligheter att leva sina liv. Verksamheten genomförs inom
fyra tematiska program: 1) Child survival and development, 2) Basic education and
adolescent development, 3) Child protection and 4) Social policy. 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. 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.