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Today, we celebrate the spirit of freedom, unity, resilience, and the collective efforts that continue to shape our nation. As we reflect on our journey since independence, let us renew our commitment to building a peaceful, inclusive, and just Uganda where everyone, especially women, girls, and young people, can thrive and contribute to national development.
May we continue working together to overcome inequality, uphold human rights, promote justice, and create opportunities for all.
Happy Independence Day
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Our Young Women SRHR Advocates presented on “Who Owns Menstrual Health?” during the Regional SRHR Policy Dialogue in Lilongwe, Malawi.
The presentation examined menstrual health through four key lenses: the enabling environment, legal and policy fragmentation, policy coherence, and the financing crisis, highlighting experiences from Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi.
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"A call to action even as we begin the meeting;
To the government, we ask that you align your goals, fund your commitment, and make adolescents and youth at SRHR a core development priority.
To healthcare providers, protect confidentiality, listen without judgment, and treat every young person with dignity. To the educators, create safe spaces for accurate information, dialogue, and referral.
To the parents and communities, replace silence and fear with guidance, trust, and open communication.
To development partners, support national systems, invest in local leadership, and avoid fragmented short-term projects.
To researchers, generate evidence that reflects the diversity of young people and translate findings into action.
To civil society, continue to defend rights, strengthen community accountability, and create platforms for voices.
And to the young people, your voice is not an ornament to policy processes. You are rights holders, you are partners, you are innovators, and leaders. Continue to organize, ask difficult questions, and demand accountability, but also ensure that the most excluded young people are represented in the movement." Youth Advisory Panel member.
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Happening now:
We are bringing together Members of Parliament and representatives from Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) for the Breakfast Orientation and Official Launch of the Parliamentary Forum on Menstrual Health and Hygiene (MHH).
The Forum provides a platform for sustained parliamentary leadership, accountability and policy action on menstrual health and hygiene in Uganda.
Today’s engagement is focused on strengthening collective action around policy, financing, oversight and accountability to advance menstrual health and hygiene across Uganda. @FJS
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"I would like to acknowledge and thank our grant partners for their contribution in organizing this dialogue. I also thank all partners and stakeholders who continue to support this important work for adolescents. By the end of this meeting, our hope is very clear in ensuring that we have a clear understanding of the policy and the financing landscape, a stronger foundation for regional collaboration, including concrete actions that can advance adolescents' and youth SRHR across Southern Africa.
I encourage all of us to engage openly and also listen to one another with reflection and also focus on solutions. The expertise and the experience and leadership needed to make progress are very present in this very room." Limpo Chinika, Program Manager @CafeSRHR
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Our Young Women SRHR Advocates presented on “Who Owns Menstrual Health?” during the Regional SRHR Policy Dialogue in Lilongwe, Malawi.
The presentation examined menstrual health through four key lenses: the enabling environment, legal and policy fragmentation, policy coherence, and the financing crisis, highlighting experiences from Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi.
#RegionalSRHRPolicyDialogue
#HerVoiceHerInfluence
The advocates challenged stakeholders to look beyond the provision of menstrual products. Menstrual health also requires accurate information, access to water and sanitation, private spaces, health care and pain management, dignity and protection, and sustainable financing.
A key message from the presentation was that menstrual health is everyone’s mandate, but fragmented responsibilities can leave no institution fully accountable for results. The advocates called for clear leadership, stronger cross-sector coordination, shared data, sustainable domestic financing and meaningful participation of young women in decisions affecting their bodies.
Menstrual health is everyone’s mandate. Let’s make it someone’s responsibility.
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Intimidating female journalists via online platforms shouldn't be normalised.
Online conversations should reflect & achieve the purpose of discourse which happens if we respect each other and creative a safe & inclusive online space.
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"When we look at the enabling environment, how is it affected? We still have the stigma, we still have the myths that persist and we also see the menstrual health education challenges and of course the access to the products and also the disposal management mechanisms, those are still part of our disruptors. Then when we look at the legal and policy fragmentation, we are seeing that from the conversation that we have been having, the consent is a key issue. It is an impediment to access.
So we are also seeing that there is need for consent, there is need for parental engagement for the policies to be able to work. And then there is need for referral and confidentiality provisions, which differ across the different sectors. For example, as Uganda we do have different laws and guidelines or policies and guidelines at the different sectoral levels." Ms Angella Nansubuga @Educ_SportsUg
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"If we must retain our learners in school, then we must be able to provide the support that they need. And as a sector we have been able to come up with a number of support structures, and this goes way beyond the policy, we have the guidelines and we also have the other IEC materials, the education materials that these learners are able to use, including the enforcement of the life skills. However, I would like to note that we still have disruptors and these also appear in the different localities." Ms. Angella Nansubuga @Educ_SportsUg
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"@Educ_SportsUg has what we call the Menstrual Health and Hygiene Steering Committee, which has inter-ministerial membership. So whatever we do as a country is done using a multisectoral approach. So why does the education sector belong to this table? It is because the daily reach that we have are the children and the greatest number of them are within the schools.
So this is where we provide the information and also to note is that the learners spend most of their time within the schools. We also see that the first point of reference within the schools are the teachers and this is mostly the senior woman and senior man teacher, who are often the first adults to notice the different changes that happen to this child at the onset of puberty, then the menstruation and then comes the challenges. So they are able to give the desired support that these learners need." Ms Angella Nansubuga, @Educ_SportsUg
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"A call to action even as we begin the meeting;
To the government, we ask that you align your goals, fund your commitment, and make adolescents and youth at SRHR a core development priority.
To healthcare providers, protect confidentiality, listen without judgment, and treat every young person with dignity. To the educators, create safe spaces for accurate information, dialogue, and referral.
To the parents and communities, replace silence and fear with guidance, trust, and open communication.
To development partners, support national systems, invest in local leadership, and avoid fragmented short-term projects.
To researchers, generate evidence that reflects the diversity of young people and translate findings into action.
To civil society, continue to defend rights, strengthen community accountability, and create platforms for voices.
And to the young people, your voice is not an ornament to policy processes. You are rights holders, you are partners, you are innovators, and leaders. Continue to organize, ask difficult questions, and demand accountability, but also ensure that the most excluded young people are represented in the movement." Youth Advisory Panel member.
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#HerVoiceHerInfluence
"A regional assessment found that the policy environment is generally positive, but the laws and policies remain inconsistent, and in some cases create barriers to adolescent access to information and services. For example, the age of consent to sexual activity differs substantially cross countries ranging from 13 years to 18 years. The lack of harmonization creates confusion not only for adolescents, but for parents, teachers, health workers, and law enforcement institutions.
In some settings, adolescents may be considered mature enough to face the consequences of sexual activity yet not mature enough to obtain confidential health information or services. We cannot claim to have an enabling environment when laws contribute to one another, policies are not implemented, and young people are left to navigate the system alone. An enabling environment must answer practical questions." Youth Advisory Panel member
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"Behind every policy gap is the young person whose opportunities, health, and dignity are affected. Eastern and Southern Africa has made important, immense progress. The region has demonstrated political leadership through regional commitments on adolescent health, education, and well-being.
Countries have developed policies on HIV, reproductive health, comprehensive sexuality education, gender equality, and adolescent and youth-friendly services. The renewed ESA ministerial commitment for 2021 to 2030 provides an important platform for coordinated action across health, education, gender, and youth sectors. However, a commitment on paper does not automatically become protection in practice." Youth Advisory Panel member
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"I would like to acknowledge and thank our grant partners for their contribution in organizing this dialogue. I also thank all partners and stakeholders who continue to support this important work for adolescents. By the end of this meeting, our hope is very clear in ensuring that we have a clear understanding of the policy and the financing landscape, a stronger foundation for regional collaboration, including concrete actions that can advance adolescents' and youth SRHR across Southern Africa.
I encourage all of us to engage openly and also listen to one another with reflection and also focus on solutions. The expertise and the experience and leadership needed to make progress are very present in this very room." Limpo Chinika, Program Manager @CafeSRHR
#RegionalSRHRPolicyDialogue
#HerVoiceHerInfluence
During this Regional SRHR Policy Dialogue, we'll focus on three critical issues, the legal and policy barriers affecting young people's access to services, the gap between regional commitments and national commitment and international implementation, as well as the growing financing challenges that I believe all of us, have faced looking at the aspect of the shrinking donor space.
Addressing these challenges will require strong partnerships and meaningful youth participation. Young people must not only be beneficiaries of policies and programs, but they must also be very active partners in shaping the world around them. Limpo Chinika, Programs Manager @CafeSRHR
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We are attending the Regional SRHR Policy Dialogue Meeting in Lilongwe, Malawi, running from 29th to 30th September 2026, under the theme "Strengthening the Enabling Environment for Adolescent and Youth SRHR in ESA." organized by @hivos and @CafeSRHR with grant partners. The meeting brings together youth-led organizations, policymakers, donors and SRHR advocates from across East and Southern Africa.
Together, we will address the barriers that limit young people's access to SRHR services and information: legal and policy fragmentation, gaps between regional commitments and national implementation, and a deepening financing crisis.
Our shared goal is a coordinated path towards legal harmonisation, coherent policy and sustainable financing, shaped by the lived realities of young people.
