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Budgeted Out: Government Promise to Older Persons Broken
This summary analysis of the FY 2026/27 National Budget looks at the government’s promises to older persons to expand the Social Assistance Grants for Empowerment (SAGE) programme to include those...
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...
A People’s Pension: The right to social security for older persons in Uganda – Lessons from Southern and Eastern Africa
A People’s Pension: The Right to Social Security for Older Persons in Uganda is a working paper jointly produced by ISER and RAISE, synthesizing lessons from eight countries to demonstrate...
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Getting children back to school: Emerging human rights issues from the nationwide reopening of schools in Uganda
The Government of Uganda closed schools for nearly 2 years in a bid to control the spread of the corona...
Oral Statement made by the Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER) to the 61st Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
As we celebrate 30 years of the Commission, African states should promote and protect Economic and Social rights and not...
Getting it Right: Uganda’s Proposed National Health Insurance Scheme
In this issue; "Getting it Right: Uganda’s Proposed National Health Insurance Scheme", we provide a comprehensive review (from a human...
Uganda’s education system need not to be further crippled with internet taxes
This piece explains how COVID 19 has showed us that technology is not a luxury but a common good that...
Lay a Strong Foundation for All Children: Fees as a Discriminatory Barrier to Pre-Primary Education in Uganda
This report is the result of a two-year collaboration between Human Rights Watch and ISER, and is based on interviews...
Budgeted Out: Government Promise to Older Persons Broken
This summary analysis of the FY 2026/27 National Budget looks at the government’s promises to older persons to expand the...
Government’s requirement to have National ID before receiving COVID19 vaccine will exclude millions
As the country receives the first batch of COVID 19 vaccines and embarks on vaccination, the Ministry of Health requires a...
Economic & Social Rights Advocacy(ESRA) Brief
Uganda’s Second National Development Plan (NDP II) 2015/16-2019/20 has as its theme ‘Strengthening Uganda’s Competitiveness for Sustainable Wealth Creation, Employment...
COVID-19 Diagnostics and Therapeutics: Supply, Demand, and TRIPS Agreement Flexibilities
ISER’s Allana Kembabazi testimony presented before the United States International Trade Commission Hearing on extending the TRIPs Waiver to Cover...