2022

Contents
Reported figures cover 2021

A Healthy Uganda A Prosperous Uganda A Secure Uganda

3| COVID-19 7 | Improving Livelihoods 14 | Supporting vulnerable
Mitigating the effects of COVID-19 Supporting Ugandans to increase populations, promoting peaceful
4| Health Threats household incomes, create jobs, and dispute resolutions
Helping Uganda to prepare build resilient communities
A Just and Democratic
for the next pandemic
60 Years of Partnership Uganda
5| Malaria 11 | Timeline 15 | Supporting Ugandans to
Four initiatives protecting Key milestones in U.S.-Uganda defend and promote human rights
Ugandans from malaria relations
A Skilled, Educated Uganda
6 | HIV/AIDS
17 | Initiatives to create economic
20 years of PEPFAR HIV
opportunities for women and youth
assistance to Ugandans

Cover photo: Samalie Sasha, a beneficiary of the Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe
(DREAMS) program, dancing during an event at Kimmi Treatment Outpost, Koome Islands. (Photo: U.S. Mission)
The Report to the Ugandan People is published annually by the U.S. Mission in Uganda to highlight some of the most important U.S.-supported initiatives in the country.
The report also represents the dedication of American diplomats, locally employed staff, development partners, Ugandan health experts, Peace Corps volunteers, and many
other officials working to achieve our common goal of building a better and brighter future for all Ugandans.

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Foreword by Ambassador Natalie E. Brown
U.S. Ambassador Natalie E. Brown with beneficiaries of a USAID resilience program at Bolipii Village, Gulu District.
A Proven
Partner
Uganda Can
Depend On
As we mark 60 years of relations
between the United States and
Uganda, I am delighted to introduce
the U.S. Mission’s 6th annual
Report to the Ugandan People,
which chronicles the United States’
enduring partnership with the
Ugandan people and our joint
efforts to increase economic growth
and employability, improve health
and education, promote democratic
values, and strengthen regional
security. The U.S. is a proven
partner Uganda can depend on.
As Uganda emerged from the
COVID-19 pandemic and then
faced an outbreak of the Sudan
Ebolavirus strain in late 2022, the
decades-long U.S. investments
strengthening health systems,
including our support to establish
a network of Public Health
You see this in Ugandans touched
by the nearly 1,900 U.S. Peace
Emergency Operations Centers,
build strong national laboratories,
Corps volunteers who have served in
Ugandan communities since 1964.
and train Ugandan health experts,
bolstered Uganda’s capacity to
You see it in students engaged in
STEM activities during visits from
respond to both health crises. Our
pivot during the pandemic-induced
our mobile education space – the
Nile Explorer Bus. You see this in
prolonged school closure to create the 1.3 million Ugandans on ARVs
Home Learning Study Groups and leading productive lives. You see it
radio instruction enabled student in the more than 140,000 electricity
learning. These are shining examples and renewable energy connections
of how the nearly $1 billion invested made possible with Power Africa.
annually by the U.S. government
As we reflect on 60 years of
in Uganda impacts individual
partnership with Ugandan
Ugandan lives.
communities, we commit our
The story of America’s partnership continued support to help build
with the Ugandan people is not a healthier, more prosperous, and
one of dollars spent, but of lives brighter future, together.
impacted and people empowered
to create a brighter future for
their families, communities, and
country. Today, millions of ordinary
Ugandans are living healthier, Natalie E. Brown
learning better, earning more, U.S. Ambassador
and participating more fully in
their communities because of this
partnership.
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 A HEALTHY UGANDA

U.S. Embassy staff joined USAID Mission Director Richard Nelson (second L-R) to receive a consignment of COVID-19
vaccine doses at Entebbe Airport.

Mitigating the Effects of COVID-19

Vaccine Donation, Support for Student Learning
Comprehensive Response When COVID-19 shut down
In 2022, U.S. programs focused on mitigating schools, leaving learners in
the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. grades 1-3 unable to return to
By the close of 2022, the United States had school for two years, the United
donated 18,190,420 COVID-19 vaccine doses States Agency for International
to Uganda, free of cost. In support of Uganda’s Development (USAID) formed
national vaccine rollout, the United States 14,000 Home Learning Study
provided technical and financial support in Groups led by 5,000 community
data management, risk communication, health volunteer teachers. The teachers
worker training, human resources support, conducted Early Grade Reading
lessons for over 330,000 grade 1-4
supply chain strengthening, and cold storage
learners in safe spaces within their Girl reading USAID education
capacity. U.S. health programs continued to communities. materials. (Photo: USAID)
focus on controlling HIV/AIDS, preventing
and treating tuberculosis (TB) and malaria, Furthermore, USAID supported the production of radio
maternal and child health, family planning, instruction for learners, teachers, and parents on 16 radio
nutrition, water and sanitation services, and stations in 20 districts. 15 “Tips for Teachers” episodes
strengthening systems for improved health and 24 “Parents as Partners” episodes guided parents on
service delivery. supporting the reading habits of their children and on how
to prevent violence at home.
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Combating A HEALTHY UGANDA

the 2022 Ebola The United States government

Outbreak
The U.S. donated personal protective
equipment (gloves, boots, gowns, respirators) to
support health workers at the Ebola Treatment
Unit in Mubende. (Photo: USAID)
mobilized support for the The U.S.
Government of Uganda’s
response to the 2022 Sudan
coordinated with
WHO and the
Ebolavirus outbreak and helped Ugandan government
minimize outbreak spread. on the possible
Several U.S. government
deployment of an
agencies working through U.S. investigational vaccine
Mission Uganda and with the for Sudan
Ugandan Ministry of Health Ebolavirus.
provided $34 million (UGX
125 billion) for the response,
burials, psychosocial/survivor
supporting efforts in the areas of
program support, research,
coordination, case management,
treatment for patients in Ebola
surveillance, diagnostics
Treatment Units, and border
and laboratories, infection
health.
prevention and control, risk
communication and community
engagement, safe and dignified

Preparing Disease outbreaks may be

inevitable, but with the
for Future right preparation, we can
control them and mitigate
Health Threats their effects. The U.S.
government is working with
Uganda’s Ministry of Health
(MOH) to help prepare
for and mitigate effects
of the next pandemic by
strengthening health systems
and improving surveillance
and early identification
capacity for disease threats.
• The U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC)
trains disease detectives
to identify and contain
outbreaks before they
U.S. Ambassador Natalie E. Brown with trainees
at launch of the first cohort of the intermediate become epidemics.
Field Epidemiology Training Program.
• CDC helped the MOH
(Photo: CDC) to establish six Public
Health Emergency
Operations Centers,
which boast surveillance
systems to monitor
disease threats, and a
national laboratory
network to identify
sources of outbreaks.
• The U.S. Defense
Threat Reduction
Program (DTRA)
built the biosafety
level-2 laboratory for
the Uganda Wildlife
Authority (UWA).
The laboratory gives
UWA the capability
to detect, surveil, and
report emerging and
re-emerging animal
diseases, in accordance
with World Health
Organization (WHO)
guidelines to limit
zoonotic outbreaks.
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Accelerating Progress Towards
HIV/AIDS Epidemic Control
Through the U.S. President’s
Emergency Plan for AIDS
Relief (PEPFAR), the United
States supports Uganda’s fight
against HIV/AIDS. Ninety-four
percent of Ugandans living with
HIV receive U.S. government
support to help them live healthy,
productive lives. These include
mothers, orphans and vulnerable
children, and other at-risk
populations.
• In 2021, the U.S. orphans and
vulnerable children program
reached over 430,000 children
and their caregivers through
its activities. These services
were provided to 89,000
vulnerable households in
79 districts. Approximately
87,000 children and their
caregivers received food and
nutrition support, while
126,000 accessed health
services, and 28,221 accessed
educational support in the
Four Initiatives Protecting
Ugandans from Malaria
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form of school materials and
group-based tutoring.
• HIV interventions were
integrated into maternal
and child health and family
planning programs in 73
districts.
• USAID supported
community retail pharmacies
in 95 districts to develop A midwife at Lira Hospital assessing a baby.
supply chain standard The U.S. is committed to ending preventable
operating procedures. maternal, newborn, and child deaths.
• The U.S. Department of (Photo: USAID)
Defense (DOD) through
its partnership with the
Makerere University Walter
Reed Project and CDC “The collaboration
provides comprehensive HIV between U.S. government
services to people living across agencies and local partners
the Lake Victoria islands. has made lasting gains in
• The U.S. DOD HIV/ strengthening Uganda’s
AIDS Prevention health systems and control
Program provides of disease threats, including
comprehensive HIV COVID-19 and ebola.”
services to the Ugandan
U.S. Ambassador
forces. Natalie E. Brown
Malaria remains a serious health challenge in
Uganda, accounting for 37% of hospital admissions.
Through the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative
(PMI), the United States supports Uganda’s fight
against malaria:
• provided 1.3+ million insecticide-treated
bed nets for mothers visiting health clinics for
antenatal care;
• administered indoor residual spraying in 10
districts, providing malaria protection for 3.8+
million Ugandans;
• contributed 1.32+ million doses of malaria
medications; and
• provided 1.25 million rapid diagnostic tests.
PMI promotes male involvement in ensuring net use.
(Photo:Angela Kateemu)
 Promoting Access to Better Health
U.S. programs are increasing access to maternal child health and voluntary family planning; improving access
to water, sanitation and hygiene; and strengthening health systems. Below are examples of impact of some
U.S. initiatives.

21,788
babies born not breathing
2.8+million
couples received USAID-
296,600
Ugandans living with HIV
were resuscitated in U.S. supported family planning enrolled in TB preventive
government-supported services and modern therapy, helping them lead
health facilities. contraceptives. healthier lives.

266,000
adolescent girls and young
197,000
low-income Ugandans
women supported through
supported by USAID to
PEPFAR to reduce HIV
access and afford basic
incidence and expand
water services.
economic networks.

20 Years of PEPFAR Assistance Reverses

Year New HIV AIDS
Infections related
HIV Infections and AIDS-Related Deaths
deaths
1990 110,000 50,000 TREND OF NEW HIV INFECTIONS AND AIDS-RELATED DEATHS IN UGANDA 1990-2022
1991 100,000 56,000 110,000
1992 100,000 62,000 110,000
1993 100,000 68,000
1994 99,000 73,000 100,000 99,000
1995 99,000 77,000 97,000
95,000 94,000 94,000
1996 97,000 80,000 93,000
91,000 91,000
1997 97,000 82,000
88,000
1998 95,000 84,000 85,000 86,000
83,000 84,000
1999 95,000 85,000 82,000
2000 94,000 86,000
82,500 80,000
77,000 76,000
2001 95,000 86,000
73,000 73,000
2002 94,000 85,000 71,000
2003 94,000 83,000 68,000 69,000
2004 93,000 80,000 65,000 65,000
2005 91,000 71,000 62,000 62,000
2006 91,000 64,000 58,000
56,000 56,000 55,000
2007 91,000 65,000 55,000
51,000 52,000 52,000
2008 91,000 62,000 50,000 New HIV Infections AIDS related deaths
2009 90,000 56,000 47,000
2010 88,000 51,000 44,000
2011 84,000 47,000
38,000
2012 78,000 44,000
34,000
2013 76,000 38,000
30,000
2014 73,000 34,000 With an increasing number 27,000
2015 69,000 30,000 27,500
2016 69,000 27,000
of people infected with HIV PEPFAR’s success in 23,000
2017 65,000 25,000 taking ARVs, the number of strengthening health systems 18,000 19,000
2018 58,000 23,000 HIV-related deaths in Uganda greatly contributed to
2019 55,000 20,000
2020 52,000 18,000
has decreased by 45% since the Uganda’s successful response to
2021 54,000 17,000 height of the epidemic. COVID-19 and Ebola.
2022 52,000 19,000
0
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

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 A PROSPEROUS UGANDA

U.S. Ambassador Natalie E. Brown visited Kyagalanyi coffee factory in Mbale to see one of Uganda’s largest
coffee export operations. (Photo: U.S. Mission)

Increasing Household Incomes

and Improving Quality of Life
The United States invests in a
variety of programs to increase the
prosperity and economic wellbeing
of all Ugandans by reducing
poverty, increasing business
opportunities, and harnessing the
country’s production capacity.
U.S. assistance seeks to improve the
country’s agricultural production
and food security, so Ugandans
can both feed themselves and
market their goods regionally and
internationally.
Agriculture is the backbone of In 2021, USAID’s FTF program
Uganda’s economy, employing helped 918,632 individual
70 % of the population and participants with food security
contributing half of Uganda’s interventions, and supported
export earnings and a quarter 392,678 individuals to apply
of the country’s gross domestic improved management
product.
practices or technologies.
USAID’s Feed the Future (FTF)
programs implement a market
systems approach to improve
food security and agricultural
How the U.S. is
development to sustainably reduce
Promoting Food Security.
hunger, malnutrition, and poverty.

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Tangible Progress: How the U.S. is Supporting

Ugandans to Increase Household Incomes, Create
Jobs, and Build Resilient Communities
Improving food and nutrition security of vulnerable households
50 food processing companies 6 million Ugandans benefited from
received training on manufacturing U.S. food security, nutrition, and
practices to achieve Uganda National post-harvest programs.
Bureau of Standards (UNBS)
product certification.

U.S. African Development U.S.-supported smallholder and

Foundation (USADF) invested
$871,084 (UGX 3.3 billion) to
support agricultural cooperatives,
off-grid energy and women-led
agribusinesses.
Watch video
farmers’ groups were connected to
grain traders, the government school
feeding program, and the refugee
markets, where they sold assorted food
commodities worth nearly $12 million
(UGX 45 billion).

Promoting sustainable tourism and natural resource management

The U.S. provided $462,436 (UGX
1.7 billion) to support communities
and the private sector to start
nature-based businesses improving
stewardship of natural resources.
USAID supported the placing of locally
constructed beehive fences, benefiting
384 community members, to deter wild
animals from crossing to communities
around Karuma Wildlife Reserve.

USAID supported several initiatives USAID Power Africa added 140,279

to combat wildlife crime and
conserve biodiversity in national
parks and forest reserves. These
efforts sustain Uganda as a popular
tourist destination.
electricity and renewable energy
household connections, reducing
reliance on forest resources for energy
needs.

Building resilient communities and enabling environment for SMEs

180,000 people benefited from
USAID-supported resilience activities
including adopting energy-saving
stoves, water harvesting tanks, and
soil conservation methods, to combat
effects of climate change.
USAID launched two programs to
mobilize private capital for SMEs, to
improve the livelihoods of over 100,000
Ugandans.
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 A PROSPEROUS UGANDA

Reducing Cost of Trade, Boosting

Regional Trade Integration

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield (right) visited Maganjo Grain Millers in
Kampala. USAID through Feed the Future is partnering with UNBS to support food processors to improve quality
and safety of their products. (Photo: U.S. Mission)

In 2021, USAID supported
the formulation, review, and
implementation of various
enabling environment policies,
including the National
Trade Policy, the National
Cooperatives Policy, and
the Trade Sector Investment
Plan. These policies will help
Ugandan enterprises to offer
competitive, safe, reliable, and
cost-effective products to local
and global markets.
Due to the disruptions in
services and supply chains
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during COVID-19 lockdowns
between April 2020 and
April 2021, Uganda’s exports
declined by 29.6%, and imports
declined by 27.4%, according
to the Bank of Uganda. To
address this challenge, USAID
supported the Ministry
of Trade, Industry and
Cooperatives to digitize its
trade registry, providing new
channels of electronic trade.
This reduced transaction costs
and improved service delivery.
USAID supported the Uganda
National Bureau of Standards
(UNBS) to simplify the East African
Community Maize Grain and Dry
Beans standards into easy-to-read
translated versions for farmers.
These awareness materials have been
adopted by UNBS to simplify other
commodity standards and have also
been adopted at the East African
Community level as reference
materials for food graders and
handlers.
60 YEARS Building Strong Partnerships
With the Ugandan People
Since Uganda’s independence, the United
States has worked with the Ugandan
people in their development journey.
Our goal is a healthy, prosperous, secure,
inclusive and empowered Uganda, so our
two countries can continue forward in
partnership based on mutual trust and
cooperation. Learn about key milestones
in U.S.-Uganda relations over the past 60
years.

U.S. President John F. Kennedy with the Prime Minister of Uganda, A. Milton Obote, and Ugandan officials
in 1962. (Photo: JFK Library)

Peace Corps volunteers of

1968 in Jinja. The volunteers
live in local communities for
two years, learn Ugandan
languages, share skills, and
teach in schools. 1,861 Peace
Corps volunteers have served in
Uganda since 1964.

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Timeline: Key Milestones in
CONTROL TSETSE FLY PROMOTE LITERACY
Stewart L. Udall, U.S. Peace Corps
Secretary of the Interior volunteers arrive
(left), visits USAID tsetse fly in Uganda to bridge
eradicating project in Ankole shortage of teachers,
BUILDING improve literacy
PARTNERSHIP
President John F.
Kennedy elevates the
American consulate in
Kampala to Embassy
status

1962 1963 1964

HEALTH SYSTEM
STRENGTHENING
CDC launches a training
IMPROVE LIVELIHOODS program for infectious
USAID launches a disease detectives at
POST-WAR RECOVERY Makerere University
program to stimulate
USAID supports
small farmer agricultural
recovery loans to
production at Makerere
businesses, provides
University
HIV/AIDS assistance

1983 1987 1994

A SECURE UGANDA
REGIONAL STABILITY
U.S. sends military
The U.S. partners
advisors to support
with Uganda and
Uganda to eliminate the
other nations under
threat posed by
the African Union
Joseph Kony
peacekeeping mission
to bring stability
and defeat terrorist
threats in
Somalia

2007 2010

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U.S-Uganda Relations
SUPPORT REFUGEES
U.S. programs
reactivated with
RESEARCH emphasis on
COLLABORATIONS SUSPENDED emergency relief
PROGRAMS for refugees
U.S. Fulbright fellows
All U.S. programs
start agriculture research
suspended due to
collaborations with
instability during Idi
Makerere University
Amin’s presidency

1967 1973 1981

PROMOTE TRADE FIGHT HIV/AIDS
STRENGTHENING Uganda becomes President George W.
PARTNERSHIP eligible for The Bush announces the
President Bill Clinton visits African Growth and U.S. President’s
Uganda. Minister of Health Opportunity Act to Emergency Plan for
Hon. Crispus Kiyonga invites access U.S. market AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
the U.S. Army to establish HIV duty-and-quota-free to combat
and malaria research capacity HIV/AIDS
in Uganda and visits
Uganda

1998 2000 2003

ENDING PANDEMICS
CONTROL DISEASE OUTBREAKS The U.S. donates over
The United States joins the Ministry 18 million COVID-19
of Health to control an Ebola vaccine doses and
outbreak in Uganda. CDC later supports Uganda
sets up National Public Health to defeat the Sudan
Emergency Operations Centers to Ebolavirus
coordinate the response to disease SUPPORTING FARMERS
outbreaks, and supports 34 Ugandan Farmers participate in USAID
laboratories to attain international Feed the Future activities, earn
accreditation over $20 million (UGX 75
billion) in annual agricultural sales

2012 2015-2020 2022

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 60 YEARS OF U.S.-UGANDA RELATIONS

The Tororo Girls’ School (TGS) in

eastern Uganda was founded with U.S.
government assistance in 1963. It was
a gift from the U.S. government that
aimed to promote girls’ education in
Uganda. USAID built TGS and modeled
it after the American educational
system. It was one of the early examples
of projects that modernized the school
system, trained teachers, and created
a broader curriculum for Ugandan
students.
(Photo: Tororo Girls’ School)

“I was lucky to be given

a Fulbright scholarship
to Bloomington, Indiana.
That made me the first
woman to come back
with a master’s degree in
Uganda.” Joyce Mpanga - Uganda’s USAID supported the introduction
first Minister of Women in Development
of the PhD program in the Faculty of
Agriculture at Makerere University.

Dr. Titus Alicai, the Senior Principal Research Officer at

the National Agriculture Research Organization (NARO)
Namulonge, is a plant virologist and a beneficiary of
USAID’s Manpower for Agriculture Development Training
(MFAD) program in the 1990s. In 1997, Dr. Alicai together
with other scientists at NARO, developed virus-resistant
cassava varieties in Uganda.
“As a result of this research, Uganda produces
between 3-5 million tons of cassava annually.
But we can reach 10 tons per year, if our
varieties can resist new viruses.”
Dr. Titus Alicai

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A SECURE UGANDA
A boy recieving food in a refugee settlement. (Photo: USAID)
Supporting Vulnerable Populations,
Promoting Peaceful Dispute Resolutions
Peace is foundational to the success of
development initiatives. USAID programs
promote dialogue and peaceful dispute
resolutions to help decrease conflict
and violence. In 2021, USAID assisted
communities in resolving conflicts among
different ethnic groups in Karamoja:
• 161 individuals involved in peaceful
resolution of conflicts;
• 83 trauma healing groups with 1,125
people formed; and
• three resource-sharing agreements
signed between formerly feuding
communities in Karamoja, enabling
over 122,800 people to share water
and pasture for livestock.
The U.S.
contributed $180
million to assist
refugees
Additionally, the USAID
Graduating to Resilience
activity helped extremely
poor refugee and vulnerable
Ugandan households
in Kamwenge District
transition from conditions
of food insecurity and fragile
livelihoods to self-reliance
and resilience. The first of
two 30-month intervention
periods concluded in 2021,
with 73% of the 37,162
participants
successfully meeting the 11
graduation criteria over three
consecutive quarters.
Also, in 2021, the USAID
Apolou food security activity
reached 264,398 participants
through its interventions
in inclusive governance,
improved health and nutrition
and sanitation. Apolou
reported improved health
among female participants in
2021. Also, the percentage of
men and women who earned
cash in the past 12 months
increased from 52% to 80%.
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 A JUST AND DEMOCRATIC UGANDA

Community members of Ngetta Sub County, Lira District attending a legal aid clinic. USAID Rights and Justice
Activity helps women, youth, children, and other vulnerable populations to access justice through legal aid, refer-
rals for medical and psychosocial support, and strengthening civil society groups to advocate for human rights. We
believe human rights are key to Uganda’s development. (Photo: USAID)

Promoting Democracy and Fair Laws

U.S. programs in Uganda
support a more just and
democratic system of
governance that ensures all
voices are heard and respected,
and that all citizens may have
a say in how their country is
governed.
Much of our work focuses
on strengthening the capacity
of civil society to advocate
on behalf of all Ugandans,
especially those traditionally
neglected or discriminated
against. We work with citizens
to improve their abilities to
identify and combat corruption,
which remains a significant
problem in nearly every aspect
of society and government.
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The U.S. supports U.S. programs supported
Ugandans to defend Ugandan youth to visit the
and promote human U.S. on exchange programs to
rights. promote mutual understanding
and best practices in public
The U.S. government supports management while building
a strong and vibrant civil society. technical and leadership
The U.S. provides grants that capacity in areas such as
support activities to enhance citizen engagement, resource
citizen participation in civic life and management, financial
increase legal awareness and
management systems, and the
access to justice.
intersection of government with
• USAID equipped 237 civil
business and civil society.
society organizations and
human rights defenders with
safety and security skills.
• USAID provided legal aid to
1,625 individuals.
• Over 6,000 people benefitted
from legal awareness campaigns
to improve access to justice.
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Educating and Equipping
Uganda’s Future Leaders
THE AGES AND STAGES PROGRAMING APPROACH

U.S. programs employ an Ages and Stages programing approach. (Graphic: USAID)

Uganda’s population is one of the
youngest in the world with nearly
20 million children under the age
of 15.
Ugandan children and youth
face intense competition for
the limited education, training,
and employment opportunities
available. Additionally, Uganda has
high rates of teenage pregnancy
and violence against children,
whose effects are compounded by
young people’s limited access to
health and social services.
The U.S. government invests in
children and youth across multiple
sectors so that they can grow to be
productive, resilient citizens who
contribute positively to Uganda’s
development.
To that end, USAID provides
support for early grade reading for
more than 3.5 million children,
helps youth and caregivers in 72
districts establish savings and
investment groups, and assists the
Ministry of Gender, Labour, and
Social Development in responding
to the over 411,000 Child Helpline
calls received each year.

Peace Corps U.S. Exchange alum-

nus and disability
Supports Early rights activist Robert
Nkwangu speaking
Reading in sign language
Along with many partners, Peace Corps celebrated Drop to students of the
Everything and Read (DEAR) Day, promoting a reading Mulago School for the
culture among 140,000 Ugandans. The Mulago School Deaf who performed
for the Deaf in Kampala highlighted Peace Corps’ efforts poems, songs, and
to promote inclusion and accessibility in their DEAR day dances for guests at
event.  the main event.
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Closing Uganda’s Skills Gap
U.S. Initiatives for Women and Youth
The U.S. supports Uganda’s youth and women through exchange programs, skills-building, grants, and
encouraging civic participation.

1. Young professionals
participated in Mandela
Washington Fellowship
in the United States for
six intensive weeks of
mentoring, leadership
training, and networking
opportunities.
2. The American Center
Kampala is an open-access
learning and gathering place
that promotes interaction
1 2 among Ugandans and
Americans. In 2021, the
American Center hosted
in person and blended
events reaching over 3,000
participants. Visitors to
the Center made use of
available resources like free
Wi-Fi.
3. The Academy for Women
Entrepreneurs provided
grow-your-own-business
training to over 300 women
entrepreneurs, equipping
them with the tools to
raise capital and effectively
network with other
successful business owners.
3 4. Up-and-coming youth
participated in the Youth
Excellence on Stage
(YES) Academy Program,
receiving professional
music production and
performance training from
American experts.
5. Supporting Students
The Nile Explorer Bus
program provided STEM and
career guidance practical
sessions to students in 12
districts. EducationUSA
helps Ugandan students

4 5 identify education
opportunities for university
study in the USA.

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SNAPSHOT: WHERE WE WORK
U.S.-Supported Programs
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LEGEND U.S.-SUPPORTED NATIONAL PROGRAMS

U.S.-supported programs for a
Healthy Uganda
Prosperous Uganda
Skilled, Educated Uganda
Secure Uganda
Just and Democratic Uganda
Healthy Uganda: Family Planning, PEPFAR HIV/AIDS programs,
TB, Health Systems Strengthening, Maternal Child and Nutrition, and
Strengthening Supply Chain Systems, malaria, COVID-19 and Ebola response
Prosperous Uganda: Biodiversity support activities, combating wildlife
crime, Feed the Future Biosafety activity and NARO Research activity
Just and Democratic Uganda: Civil Society Strengthening Activities

Refugee-hosting districts

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The Power of Partnership and Collaboration
U.S. government agencies work with many organizations (implementing partners
­­— academia, village-savings organisations, civil society, businesses, and local
governments) through contracts, grants, and agreements, to ensure that U.S.
support reaches Ugandans. Here are some of the U.S. partners, in Uganda.

U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN UGANDA

peacecorps.gov usadf.gov/ usaid.gov cdc.gov

nih.gov

usda.gov/
dtra.mil/
defense.gov/ hhs.gov/

state.gov/pepfar wrair.health.mil
doi.gov/ state.gov

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