Gender Based Violence (GBV) takes multiple forms, including physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, with harmful traditional practices such as female genital mutilation, early or forced marriages, dowry-related violence, and economic abuse. The 2024 Annual Crime Report revealed that over 75 percent of domestic violence victims were women and girls, with all 1667 recorded rape victims in 2024 being women who also accounted for 98 percent of defilement cases. The Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS) 2022 indicated physical violence against women at 23 percent.

The Sustainable Development Report (SDR)  2025 launched 24th June 2025 provides a comprehensive global assessment of progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for all UN member states. It introduces both the SDG Index and the streamlined SDGi (based on 17 headline indicators), enabling cross-country comparisons using harmonized performance thresholds. The SDG Index scores are measured on a scale from 0 to 100, with 100 indicating full achievement of the SDGs.

This report reveals the Local Economic Development method undertaken to produce the NDP III results. In 2006, LED was introduced to Uganda as the sixth objective of the Decentralization Policy as decentralization was failing to get the population out of poverty as envisaged during conceptualization in 1993. Efforts were constructed to fulfill it but a bold step was made in 2014 with the development of the LED policy.

The world has struggled with COVID-19 in the last few years which was accompanied by predicaments as a way of reaction from African countries to handle and bounce back from the pandemic. The urge for sound transparency and conformance is a result of these predicaments. This in turn would be a helping hand against corruption in the African countries.

This reprt examines the role for natural resource wealth in driving Africa’s economic transformation and the implications of the low-carbon transition for resource-rich economies. Resource wealth remains central to most Sub-Saharan African economies such as Uganda, and significant untapped potential is in the ground. Subsoil assets such as metals, minerals, oil, and gas are key sources of government revenues, export earnings, and development potential in most countries in the Africa region.

A properly governed migration regime is envisaged to make significant contribution to sustainable development in countries of origin, transit destination including providing benefits and opportunities for both migrants and their families. This report emphasizes the need for Member States under the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) that guarantees proper and effective migration governance and ensure its effective implementation.

This report gives a general appraisal of the human rights situation in Uganda in 2021 in fulfillment of Uganda Human Rights Commission’s mandate that the Uganda Human Rights Commission has the honor and pleasure to present to you its 24th Annual Report. The report goes ahead to give an insight of the period leading to and after the 2021 general elections. Other key emerging issues in 2021 included the twin bombings, banishment of persons from their societies and teenage pregnancy.

The 2022 report takes into account police’s challenges and its efforts to curb crime. The report indicates a general increase in crime rate in 2022 compared to the previous year. There was an 18 percent increase in the number of crimes reported to Police from 196,081 cases reported in 2021 to 231,653 cases mainly due to the full opening of the economy after the Covid-19 lockdown and growing confidence to report crime to Police.

Uganda’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Report 2021 provides a national overview of progress on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, using the latest available data and estimates. It tracks the country’s progress towards the 17 Goals with in-depth analyses of selected indicators for each Goal.

Second in series, the aforementioned report focuses on African Governance Futures 2063 Scenarios through utilising future studies as its scientific platform. This report represents a collective effort that highlights rigorous, evidence-based research spanning a period of one year. Secondly, Africa can harness incoming changes and direct the trajectory of national, regional and global governance, economic development, and environmentally sustainable practices.