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INCLUSIVE SOCIAL PROTECTION SYSTEM

Multi-tiered social security for different

stages of the lifecycle

of children aged 0-5 years by
providing targeted cash transfers,
along with complementary
nutrition-sensitive and improved
access to essential services.
School-age children safely
transition to adulthood:
Interventions here will address
vulnerabilities of school-going
children and foster the return to
school of those who are out of the
education system.
Youth and working-age adults
Source: MGLSD, (forthcoming). Building and Protecting Human
Infrastructure: A Vision for Social Security in Uganda. Kampala have income and social security.
Efforts will focus on increasing
coverage of social protection,
aimed to increase community focusing on vulnerable pregnant enhancing financial inclusion, and
and household resilience among women and children, school-age social insurance for vulnerable
refugees and host populations children, youth and working-age young adults (19-31 years) and the
through health and social adults, older persons, as well as working-age population (31-59
protection systems strengthening. enhancement of legal, policy, and years), to improve their livelihoods.
Several key national level institutional frameworks. Older persons have incomes
strategic documents, and Under the programme, specific and social security. This will aim
knowledge products have outputs are outlined into five at expanding coverage of social
been developed to guide social categories as highlighted below; assistance to older persons of 60
protection programming. In Vulnerable pregnant women and years and older, enhance their
addition, cash transfers for children children are healthy and protected: access to complementary services
and lactating mothers integrated The objective is to improve the such as health, financial, and legal
with social behavioral change, overall health and development services, as well as improve access
financial literacy programmes, to social care and support services
back-yard gardening actions e.g. mental health services and
were implemented in an effort to home-based care during illness.
increase access to social protection Functional legal, policy, and
services to refugees and host institutional frameworks at the
communities. national and sub-national levels.
Building on the successes, The objective here is to further
Government with development Overall, the ISPP aims strengthen and consolidate
partners’ support, plans to launch to enhance household Uganda’s legal, policy and
the Integrated Social Protection resilience with five key institutional frameworks towards
Programme (ISPP) in June 2025, outcome areas focusing delivering a social protection
to address remnant vulnerabilities system that is efficient, effective,
and risks among refugees and on vulnerable pregnant adaptive, and integrated in nature.
nationals in the selected refugee women and children, In essence, under the ISPP,
hosting districts across the country school-age children, youth Uganda is transitioning from a
with expansion to Karamoja region and working-age adults, traditional, poorly coordinated
due to its unique socio-economic older persons, as well as social protection system to a more
challenges. enhancement of legal, robust, comprehensive, adaptive,
Overall, the ISPP aims to policy, and institutional responsive, and lifecycle-based
enhance household resilience approach to address risks, shocks,
with five key outcome areas frameworks. and vulnerabilities.

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