In general food security in Uganda has improved. However, there are wide regional variations. Food security is often assessed by measuring levels of under/ malnutrition and whether or not children have three meals a day. Studies show that 48% of all children in Uganda do not get 3 meals a day. It becomes worse that 66% of the poor children have less than three meals a day (UNICEF, 2019).
Uganda’s high levels of undernutrition, especially among children, are due to inadequate diets and the country’s high prevalence of infectious diseases such as malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea. Additionally, weaknesses in health care provision, poor childcare and feeding practices, and lack of access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene also contribute to poor nutritional outcomes.

Undernutrition remains an important contributor to poor maternal, newborn and child survival and development. Undernutrition during a child’s first years is linked to poor academic achievement and compromised economic productivity later in life.

OUR INTERVENTION 5

OUR GOAL – FOSTER THE SOCIOECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES SO THAT THEY CAN BETTER SUPPORT CHILDREN’S DEVELOPMENT.
Strategies

1. Integrated Food security program focussing maternal child health and nutrition, WASH, Agriculture, and alternative livelihoods
2. Conduct health activities, including the development of an approach to engage boys and men in reproductive health issues by promoting gender equitable norms and rejecting violence against women and girls.
3. Water, Hygiene and Sanitation
4. Climate Change, Environment and Skills for green and digital transition
5. Equip the young people especially youth in and out of school with business, vocational education and training (BVET) programmes incorporating green practices and sustainability along with new technologies. Skills for the green transition, or green skills, require a comprehensive set of knowledge, abilities, values, and attitudes to excel in and support a sustainable and resource-efficient society. Green skills encompass both technical knowledge and transversal skills, as well as knowledge, values, and attitudes that enable professionals to effectively use green technologies and processes and make pro-environmental decisions in both their work and personal lives.