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Policy Brief Series on Public Debt and Economic and Social Rights in Uganda

How does public debt shape the delivery of health care, education, social protection, and climate action in Uganda? This policy brief series examines the relationship between public debt, government spending,...

Evaluating the Education Act, CAP 247, and its regulation of private education in Uganda: Legal Strengths and Shortcomings

This paper makes an analysis of the effectiveness of the Education Act, in regulating the private provision of education in Uganda. It highlights the areas of strength that simply requires...

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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Government Covid-19 Vaccine Strategy Leaves Critical Questions Unanswered

Drawing on the remarks at the recently concluded cabinet meeting, held on 1st February 2021, particularly, on the issue of...

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...

Civil Society sues Government over the International Specialised Hospital, Lubowa

Civil Society, led by ISER, pray that the Constitutional Court declares unconstitutional and annuls the acts of Government leading to...

No! We Do not Have that Drug Here!

This compilation brings together a diversity of voices from various communities across Uganda where the Initiative for Social and Economic...

A Looming Crisis? An analysis of the health sector budget performance for the financial year 2012/13 and allocations for 2013/14

In this brief, we highlight the fact that the health sector budget provision and performance does not reflect the commitment...

A drop in the ocean: Uganda’s COVID-19 cash transfer

As the Government of Uganda plans to roll out a Covid-19 Relief Fund to vulnerable persons in urban areas, this...

Are We Heading Towards a More Progressive Tax System? ISER’s Position on the 2023 Income Tax Amendment Bill

This brief summarizes our perspectives submitted before Parliament on the government's latest proposed income tax reforms for fiscal year 2023/24....

Education Committee Report on Closure of Private Schools by the Ministry of Education and Sports.

A Report of the Education Committee of Parliament on Closure of Private Schools by the Ministry of Education and Sports