Evaluation of UNFPA Support to the Prevention of, Response to and Elimination of Gender-based Violence and Harmful Practices 2012-2017: Uganda Case Study

UNFPA has invested significantly in Uganda’s efforts to address GBV and harmful practices. This investment has produced significant achievements in terms of laws, policies, regulations, protocols and guidelines at the national level and adapted for the sub-national level. Uganda’s experience with the role out of the human rights-based approach (HRBA) to addressing maternal mortality and morbidity; integrating a focus on GBV into work on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and with adolescents; engaging key government stakeholders through evidence-based programming and diverse approaches to partnership and collaboration with sister agencies in coordinated efforts have been identified as good practice approaches in efforts to link human rights and SRH rights work. The challenge remains operationalizing these policy tools and government commitments.