Gender Equality

Pillar 5: Gender Equality

To achieve Gender Equality and empower all women and girls

  • 5.1: End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls every District of Uganda
  • 5.2: Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation countrywide
  • 5.3: Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child abuse, early and forced marriage, pedophile and female genital mutilation
  • 5.4: Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate
  • 5.5: Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
  • 5.6: Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights
  • 5.a: Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws
  • 5.b: Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women
  • 5.c: Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels
Share your food with the hungry, and give shelter to the homeless. Give clothes to those who need them, and do not hide from who need your help Isaiah 58:7