World Breastfeeding Week 2026 (1-7 August) | Theme: “Breastfeeding for a Sustainable Start in Life: Strengthen What Works Every August, the world pauses to celebrate one of the simplest, most powerful public health interventions available to any nation: a mother feeding her child. This year, from 1 to 7 August, World Breastfeeding Week 2026 asks […]
Up to UGX 300,000 a month. That is the upper end of what a civil servant in Uganda used to receive as a lunch allowance money that, for many, was the difference between eating during an eight-hour shift and going without. From this financial year, that allowance is gone. What just happened? Under Establishment Notice […]
Food Rights Alliance, in partnership with UNICEF, Action Against Hunger, World Vision, and the Ministry of Health, convened the 2nd Nutrition Financing Dialogue at the Sheraton Hotel in Kampala under the theme “Financing for Nutrition: A Pathway to Achieving Government Commitments to End Malnutrition.” The dialogue brought together stakeholders from government, academia, civil society, the […]
Civil Society Organizations call for the reversal of the proposed 20% budget cut to the Agro-Industrialisation Programme in the National Budget Framework Paper (NBFP) 2026/27, warning that the reduction threatens Uganda’s food security, nutrition outcomes, and rural livelihoods. This call was made during a two-day Civil Society Organisation (CSO) Retreat on the NBFP 2026/27, co-convened […]
