Uganda
This page features the news on disability from Uganda in the Debrief Library. See also news from other countries.
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COVID-19
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Response
The response to Covid-19 in Northern Uganda should be disability-inclusive. A report on a research project between June 21 to August 22. (Dec, University of Bristol)
Communication and Language
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Sign Languages
Reasonable accommodation for Deaf persons on why provision of a sign language interpreter needs to be accompanied by further measures. (Mar, IDA)
Culture, Entertainment and Media
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TV and Film
The Ugandan woman behind TV for the deaf (Aug, Disability Insider)
Data and Research
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We are able: interactive radio campaign. Respondents without disabilities more likely to say disabled people experience food insecurity because of low self-esteem and negative attitude than because they face exclusion. (Apr, Trac FM)
Economics and Social Protection
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Social Protection
Disability Inclusion Lifts Rural Ugandan Families From Poverty description of a poverty-reduction programme by BRAC (Jun, Africa.com)
Social protection for disability inclusion in Uganda. See also synthesis paper that compares Uganda and Kenya. (Dec, Inclusive Futures)
Education and Childhood
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Experts blame special needs poor grades on few teachers. “The poor performance among special needs learners, both in classwork and at national examinations, has been attributed to a lack of skilled teachers and inadequate learning materials and equipment, a top education official has said.” (Feb, Monitor)
They may have lost sight, but digital assistive learning technologies have given learners a vision. (Dec, UNICEF)
Concern as deaf learners perform poorly in Primary Leaving Exams. (Jan, Monitor)
A Fundraiser by Connor Scott-Gardner to help Salama Blind School after a Devastating Fire (Nov, Go Fund Me)
Understanding child disability: Factors associated with child disability at the Iganga-Mayuge Health and Demographic Surveillance Site (Apr, Plos One)
Employment, Business and Work
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Closing the Employment Gap a feature video on how Ugandans with Disabilities Advocate for a More Inclusive Work Environment (Dec, Disability Justice Project)
Celebrating “Make 12,4% work” a project for economic empowerment of persons with disabilities. Report discusses the way disability inclusion facilitators implemented the program and a detailed description of methodology and lessons learned. “Disability Inclusive Development is an emerging field with no blueprint readily available for practitioners developing and implementing programmes in the sector. In addition, a high level of complexity exists due to intersectionality and the diversity in disability.” (Sep, LFTW)
Banking on Inclusion the experience of Stanbic bank. See also Lekker Bakery and Riley Packaging. (Jun, Make 12.4% Work)
Gender Equality and Women with Disabilities
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Leave No Woman Behind: A blog on Disability, Gender, and Employment. (Nov, Disability Justice Project)
Leading the Charge a feature on Christine Oliver Dhikusooka and her work mobilizing around women with disabilities. (Sep, Disability Justice Project)
Health
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Hospital and a home: Uganda shelters offer a lifeline to cancer patients. (Dec, the Guardian)
International Cooperation
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Uganda’s Diverse Disability Movement Offers Lessons for an Ableist Global Philanthropy (Nov, Yes!)
OPD Conversations: Building Confidence and Challenging Stigma and on inclusive communications during COVID-19. (Mar, CBM UK)
Lived Experience and Opinion
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Let it pass an animated poem about the lived experience of anxiety. (Nov, Making it Work)
Why I do self-advocacy as a deafblind youth (Oct, Voices of Youth)
Policy and Rights
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Disability-Inclusive Education and Employment: Understanding the Context (Mastercard Foundation)
A music video on disability rights: Did You Know - Air Jay ft Daxx Kartel (Jul, Make 12.4% Work)
Politics and Elections
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Short video on Deputy Mayor Kauma “Fazira Kauma Toppled Political Barriers in Uganda When She Became the First Woman and the First Blind Citizen To Be Appointed Deputy Mayor in Jinja” (Mar, Disability Justice Project)
Relationships, Sex and Reproductive Rights
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Ugandan Parliament Passes Extreme Anti-LGBT Bill:
“But one of the most egregious provisions – the bill calls it “aggravated homosexuality” – calls for the death penalty in certain circumstances, including for “serial offenders,” or for anyone having same-sex relations with a person with a disability, thereby automatically denying persons with disabilities the capacity to consent to sex.” (Mar, Human Rights Watch)
Violence and Harassment
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Disability status, partner behavior, and the risk of sexual intimate partner violence: an analysis of the demographic and health survey data. (Oct, BMC Public Health)