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🎙️ Angella Nabwowe Kasule , Executive Director ISER Uganda , delivers a statement calling for accelerated action to #EndChildLabour in Uganda. CSOs remain vital in prevention, reintegration, and advocacy towards the elimination of child labour.

It is imperative that we #EndChildLabour and create a future where every child’s potential is fully realized. Enabel in Uganda in partnership EU in Uganda is working with ISER Uganda to eliminate child labour in agriculture and extractives industry in Albertine and Busoga-remarks Ms.

Happening Now: A panel discussion on effective strategies to eliminate child labour. Angella Nabwowe Kasule ED ISER Uganda highlights strategies that civil society can adopt in the prevention and elimination of child labour. Join the conversation as experts share insights, solutions.

#ISERontheBudget Only 6.2% of the budget (UGX 4.47 trillion) goes to health, yet there’s still a UGX 604 bn shortfall for HIV, malaria & Human Resource support following the freeze on USAID funding. Read ISER’s thoughts on the just read budget here. #PeopleCenteredBudget

#ISERontheBudget Education gets 7.7% (UGX 5.57 trillion) in the just read budget but faces UGX 35.5 bn in wage & development shortfalls. ISER Uganda calls for protected allocations so that every child can have access to quality education. Read our Brief here

#ISERontheBudget Today, Parliament convenes for the reading of the FY 2025/26 national budget speech. Our latest brief shows that 41% of the  just read budget goes to debt servicing— 2.5 times the combined allocation to health, education & social protection. Read our brief here

#ISERontheBudget In the Uganda FY2025/26 budget read yesterday, debt servicing alone consumes a staggering 39% of resources, amounting to UGX 28.2 trillion, with interest payments of UGX 11.3 trillion surpassing the combined allocations for the health, education & social

As we continue to celebrate #WorldDayAgainstChildLabour, we must reflect more on why we are witnessing increasing prevalence of the vice despite the progressive legal & policy frameworks in the country; Angella Nabwowe Kasule opines in today's Daily Monitor monitor.co.ug/uganda/oped/co…

.Joseph Byomuhangyi Program Manager —ISER Uganda: Child labor is any work that is hazardous to the child. It could be mental or physical. #NextBigTalk #NextRadioUg

.Joseph Byomuhangyi: Program Manager — ISER Uganda: Work that includes household chores like cleaning the house or fetching water, when done by an 8-year-old, is not child labor. #NextBigTalk #NextRadioUg

.Joseph Byomuhangyi: Program Manager — ISER Uganda: There ought to be a distinction between training a child in basic home responsibilities and making 8-year-olds care for other people’s children — that is child labor. #NextBigTalk #NextRadioUg

.Joseph Byomuhangyi, Programs Manager — (ISER Uganda): Child labor in Uganda manifests largely in agriculture. Many children end up being caught up in harvesting seasons and miss out on school. #NextBigTalk #NextRadioUg

.Joseph Byomuhangyi, Program Manager — (ISER Uganda): The boy child is more likely to be involved in child labor than the girl child. #NextBigTalk #NextRadioUg

.Joseph Byomuhangyi, Program Manager — (ISER Uganda): The key driver of child labor in Uganda is poverty. It has forced many families to let go of their children, making them take on adult responsibilities and robbing them of their childhood. #NextBigTalk #NextRadioUg

.Joseph Byomuhangyi, Program Manager — (ISER Uganda): The constitution of Uganda defines the right work but does not include children. #NextBigTalk #NextRadioUg

Kabi Geoffrey: Child labor exists in our communities. We are trying to use social dialogue, and when we do that, some communities begin to police themselves. #NextBigTalk #NextRadioUg

Karungi Maureen: As a country, we are trying to put measures in place, including providing free education for all, so that the number of school dropouts decreases. #NextBigTalk #NextRadioUg

Karungi Maureen: As government, we have developed a child labor checklist and trained our labor officers. We have labor officers in all districts of Uganda who are involved at all levels. #NextBigTalk #NextRadioUg

ISER Uganda welcomes the renewed committed by Janet K Museveni & Ministry of Education and Sports - Uganda to review the National Sexuality Education Framework after 7 years since its adoption. This Framework is critical for safeguarding adolescents’ right to health, promoting informed sexual & reproductive