Women’s entrepreneurship and social protection in Uganda

This African Policy Dialogue revisits national policies and reviews institutional reforms.

Led by Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC)

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About the policy dialogue

While women’s entrepreneurship and social protection are areas of national policy concern in relation to Uganda’s development strategies, there is a need for a more proactive approach to ensure that current commitments in these areas do not remain on paper. In relation to women’s entrepreneurship, this includes revisiting national policies with a focus on skills development initiatives, institutions and government budgets. For social protection, this entails a review of institutional reforms and effective implementation of policies and programmes, among other things. Against this background, this African Policy Dialogue proposes to establish effective national-level policy-knowledge communities on women’s entrepreneurship and social protection.

Objectives
  • Increase awareness of the growing need to pay special attention to women’s entrepreneurship and social protection
  • Promote context-based interventions that take into account gender, geography and the lifecycle of the target groups
  • Promote learning by doing activities that encourage the adoption of new ideas and practices
Partners
  • Development partners
  • Economic Policy Research Centre (Kampala, Uganda)
  • Makerere University
  • Mbarara University of Science and Technology
  • Ministry of Gender Labour and Social Development, Uganda
  • Ministry of Trade Industry and Cooperatives, Uganda
  • National Planning Authority, Uganda
  • Office of the Prime Minister, Uganda
  • Uganda Investment Authority
  • Women’s advocacy institutions (e.g. UWEAL)
Country focus
  • Uganda