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A People’s Pension: A Manifesto on Social Protection for Older Persons
Developed by the CSO Working Group on Social Protection for Older Persons and coordinated by ISER, this manifesto underscores the urgent need for universal and inclusive social protection systems for Uganda’s older...
Enhancing Social Protection for Older Persons in Uganda: Key Considerations for Uganda’s 2025/26 National Budget
Submitted by ISER before the Parliamentary Committee on Gender, Labor, and Social Development in January 2025, this comprehensive report critically examines Uganda’s budget priorities for older persons’ social protection in...
“We are not well educated but learning on the job”: Governance and Accountability in the Provision of Public Primary Education in Uganda
This report examines the critical governance and accountability challenges that have undermined the promise of UPE, and reveals how insufficient funding, weak oversight, and systemic gaps continue to hinder the...
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Uganda’s Policy on Retention, Continuity and Reintegration of PGAMs
Uganda is among the sub–Saharan countries grappling with high teenage pregnancy and adolescent births. This policy brief highlights Uganda’s and...
IMF Lending and the Road to Green Transition: One Step Forward, One Step Back
In recent years, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has portrayed itself as a climate champion through its flagship research publications,...
Oral statement on Human and Peoples’ Rights -Nouakchott, Mauritania.
Oral statement made by the Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER) to the 62th Session of the African Commission...
Submission to the Health Committee of Parliament on the Public Health (Amendment) Bill, 2021
On 22nd February 2022, ISER made a presentation to the Health Committee of Parliament on the Public Health (Amendment) Bill...
How Did We Get Here? Uganda’s Medical Oxygen Crisis
As Uganda faces a surge of COVID 19 reporting more than ten thousand cases in ten days, oxygen shortages have...
Accountability In Public Private Partnerships (PPPs)
This policy Brief interrogates the accountability framework for Public Private Partnership (PPPs) contracts in Uganda’s Universal Secondary Education (USE) policy...
Ten things Government should urgently address to deal with Uganda’s Covid 19 surge
As Uganda battles a surge in Covid19 infections, we highlight 10 issues that the Government ought to critically and urgently...
Memorandum on Education and Sports Sector Policy Review
ISER's Memorandum on Education and Sports Sector Policy Review focusing on aspects like relevance of UPE and USE programs; public-private...
Profiteering off a Pandemic: Private Sector and Health Services in Uganda During COVID
This report underscores how an under-financed public health sector due to liberalization reforms and a weakly regulated private sector have...