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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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Monitoring and Inspection Financing for Primary and Secondary Schools -FY2013/14 to FY2018/19 Factsheet

Effective monitoring and inspection of schools is critical in the realization of quality of education. However, over the years, financing...

Oral Statement made by the Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER) to the 77th Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

ISER is attending the 77th session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights where it has observer status...

Analysis of Uganda’s 1992 government white paper using the tool “Planning to fulfill the right to education”

Analysis of the 1992 Government White Paper on Education submitted by the Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER)and the...

We want to participate

This photo essay is a result of social accountability and community participation research conducted between October 2015 and December 2016...

Are They Effective? An Audit of Social Accountability Mechanisms in Local Government Processes in Uganda

This report presents findings from a study undertaken to interrogate the status of social accountability mechanisms in local government processes...

Where Did COVID 19 Money Go?: International Finance Institutions’ Funding to Uganda

This report documents the different forms of financing that Uganda received from IFIs to prevent, manage and control the COVID-19...

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...

Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) and its Applicability to Uganda’s Context

This research was aimed at expounding on what the right to FPIC is and to assess how Uganda is faring...

The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights on the Rights of Citizens to Social Protection and Social Security: How Does Uganda Measure up?

This research interrogates social protection in Uganda against the norms enshrined in the African Protocol on the Rights of Citizens...