Blog – Youth4Policy

The Role of Higher Learning Institutions in meeting social challenges. Why the quality of education matters

As the global public health shock of COVID 19 continues to impact negatively on countries worldwide, governments, institutions and businesses globally have had to back track their efforts, plans and priorities with financial budgets having to be realigned to...

Human Rights

Public policy and Human rights: How human rights haves affected public policy in Uganda

How human rights have affected public policy in Uganda. By Gad A. Kisaalu Human rights in Uganda have taken center stage with several civil society organisations taking on the government for a wide spectrum of rights violation as adopted from...

Featured Social Development

“Quarantine” Your Uterus - More 21 days to go!!!

The global pandemic of COVID-19 is a wreaking havoc on a wide array of health, economic, social and personal decisions. However, what may be lost in the chaos - among other effects and dangers - is the specific impact on...

Economy Social Development

How secure are your data and network systems as you remotely work and study at home?

After declaring a global pandemic by the World Health Organization, one of the key preventive measures for the spread of Covid-19 is social distancing which has been widely adopted with countries such as Uganda undertaking the same before any case...

Economy Social Development

This Women’s Month — let us embrace women’s economic empowerment!

Despite historic legacies of political upheavals and violent conflicts, Uganda has enjoyed relative peace and stability since 2006, with the reinstatement of multi-party democracy, a strong constitution that protects women’s human rights, and an end to conflict in Northern Uganda....

Featured Social Development

Refugee, Migrant and Asylum Seeker: Why the differences matter.

In the modern era, cross-border movements have become very common with hundreds of people moving daily from one country to another. These individual and group movements have occurred for centuries for a variety of reasons. For instance, some left their...

Economy Featured Social Development

The tyranny of poverty: Why foreign aid has failed to bail African countries from the prison of poverty

The concept of poverty has dominated the agenda of international development discourses for the last three decades. Undoubtedly, poverty has become a development challenge which is seen as a rich world of one billion fighting for a poor world of...

Updates

Lessons in Public Policy Research Writing

Three months down the road and the 2019 Y4P journey continues. It’s been worthwhile so far. The lessons are quite telling but for today, I will focus on the lessons learnt about the Public Policy Research Writing process. When I...