Overall Objective: To initiate a national dialogue in Uganda on violence against children.
Specific Objectives
- To learn about children’s experience, perspective and priorities for action regarding violence against them.
- To learn about how adults conceptualise and rationalize violence against children in Uganda.
This program will involve a broad consultation with children and adults about their conception and experience of violence against children and a national media campaign to generate a discussion about the issue.
a) Research on Violence Against Children
This publication discusses a research study in 2004 undertaken in five districts in Uganda. Over 1400 children discuss the various types of violence they experience at home, schools and in the community as well as how it makes children feel and their ideas for violence-free childhoods. The study also reports on discussions with almost 1100 adults about how they perceive punishment and discipline, mistreatment and how they too feel about the issues. The report ends with summary recommendations for protecting and promoting children’s rights to live free of violence.
Overall Objective: To develop a local resource and response mechanisms for children experiencing violence.
c) National Awareness Campaign
