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Using Community Structures to Improve Public Social Service Delivery at the Local Government Level

This brief showcases some of the achievements by ISER’s Community Advocates program over the years. Since 2016, ISER has been implementing a community-based model known as the Community Advocates (CA)...

CSO position paper on the tax bills for FY 2023-24

ISER is a member of the Ugandan Tax Justice Alliance under which we regularly submit positions on the annual tax bills that are before Parliament for approval. This particular paper...

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, staff policy papers, public-facing factsheets, and speeches. But what does...


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“Here, When You Are Poor, You Die”: Healthcare on Sigulu Islands

This report, focuses on Sigulu islands, an amalgamation of islands in Namayingo District, and finds widespread disparities in access to...

The Baraza Advocacy Brief

This brief provides an analysis of the implementation of the Baraza platforms by the Office of the Prime Minister in Local Governments.

Economic Social Rights recommendations for Uganda from the 3rd Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

On January 27, 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group examined Uganda’s human rights...

Submission to the Health Committee of Parliament on the National Health Insurance Bill, 2019

On 20th November 2019, ISER made a presentation to the Health Committee of Parliament on the National Health Insurance Bill,...

Implementation of the Gender and Equity Certification Requirement under the Public Finance and Management Act

In this edition of the Economic and Social Rights Advocacy (ESRA) Brief, the Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER) looks...

Leaving No One Behind: Barriers to Continuity of Education for Vulnerable Children Impacted by Covid-19 in Uganda

The Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER) undertook a situational analysis of the challenges confronting the girl child –...

The Bitter Taste of Sugar: A Photo Story on the Effects of Sugar Production in Luuka District

In February 2018, the UCCA team spent a week in Luuka district on a field mission assessing the impact of...

Economic and Social Rights in Uganda: The Status Quo

The ESRA Brief provides an opportunity to interrogate the status of economic and social rights, primarily in Uganda and key...