Household Food Security Enhances Child Protection
The problem? In the Karamoja sub-region, child exploitation is closely linked to climate-induced food insecurity, triggered by prolonged droughts. With the depletion of traditional livelihoods, young women and girls are compelled to migrate to urban areas for survival, where they face exploitation, including forced labour and trafficking. Climate change is also driving child marriage. How […]
From Despair to Empowerment: Building Resilience in Karamoja
Karamoja’s development faces ongoing systemic challenges like cattle rustling, climate driven hardships and insecurity which have maintained a cycle of poverty and supported harmful practices such as early marriage and human trade. Many young women who seek to escape these hardships in search for better lives in urban centres end up falling into the trap […]
Kitchen Gardening Enhances Climate Change Adaptive Capacities Among Women in Lokopo, Napak District
“…I have learnt that there are small ways in which I can use small amounts of money to alleviate hunger in my home. Like, I used not to know that I can put a small garden in my home and make my children change the food type eaten every day, but now I know… I have planted cow piece, Sukuma and pumpkin behind my house so that if we eat beans today, tomorrow we can eat cowpeas and even the children can grow well and be happy…” narrates Pulukol Elizabeth [one of the group members.