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Greetings from the Civil Society fraternity in Uganda.We welcome the International Monetary Fund (IMF) support extended to Uganda and other developing countries to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.…

We continue to address the underlying causes of crisis in the region. The intersectionality of multiple crisis; COVID-19, climate change, re-emphasize the need for broad based social protection…

It’s 2021 and schools have to re-open after a mandatory lockdown was imposed on all institutions across the country, which was meant to curb the spread of Covid-19. Uganda, like the rest of the world…

As a lead up to Father’s Day which was celebrated globally last month, Oxfam in Uganda in collaboration with Oxfam International, Men Care Global, Promundo-US, and local partner, Uganda Women’s…

People seeking safety are trapped at borders across Eastern Africa due to COVID-19 measuresA coalition of international, national, and refugee-led organizations in the Horn, East and Central Africa (…

Many women who work in the informal sector are bread winners. Although COVID-19 lockdown measures stretched them beyond their limits, that did not stop them from supporting their families.In this…

When a COVID-19 vaccine is found, it must be free and fairly distributed to everyone on the planetThe Coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on all our lives. While we are each doing our part of…

The current global coronavirus pandemic has put insurmountable pressure on the world economies but invisibly, it has also increased the care workload of women. For women like Stella, the extra burden…

In April 2020, Oxfam launched a call to cancel all the debt payments in 2020 so that developing countries like Uganda can maintain and increase social protection and health spending in response to…

Vaccinating the poorest half of humanity – 3.7 billion people - against coronavirus could cost less than the ten biggest pharmaceutical companies make in four months, Oxfam said today.