Ending Adolescent HIV
Turning the tide against AIDS will require more concentrated focus on adolescents and young people Adolescents and young people represent a growing share of people living with HIV worldwide. In...
Sexual & Reproductive Health
We believe that upholding adolescents’ rights to sexual and reproductive health reduces gender-based sexual violence and improves health. Improving children’s sexual and reproductive health and knowledge Many young people are...
Child Marriage
CHILD MARRIAGE IN UGANDANearly 1 in every 2 girls in Uganda is married before the age of 18.DRIVERSIn Uganda, child marriage is often a result of poverty. Many parents marry...
Violence Against Women
By cultivating an understanding of violence against women, we seek to transform the way power is used between men and women in society. A collective understanding of violence against women...
Youth & Women Empowerment
Economic security policy and advocacy We believe that creating long-term economic change for children involves working with others to advocate for change at the local, national and global level. We...
Water & Sanitation
Our priorities in Water, hygiene and sanitation Access to clean water and sanitation We work to ensure children and their communities have access to clean water and sanitary facilities all year around...
Child Participation
We support children to exercise their rights as citizens, to express their views and to organise themselves. This helps ensure they live more secure and fulfilling lives Our priorities in...
Water & Sanitation
Our priorities in Water, hygiene and sanitation Access to clean water and sanitation We work to ensure children and their communities have access to clean water and sanitary facilities all year around and in emergencies. This includes conducting programmes based on evidence of success, which we can replicate and engage entire communities...
Education
Our approach in education We know that education has the power to transform a child’s life, give them a more prosperous and healthy future, and help their entire community beat poverty and inequality. Put simply, an education can change everything – so we work hard to give every child the opportunities...
Child & Adolescent Health
A child’s survival, healthy growth and development are linked to the mother’s survival, nutrition and wellbeing – and depend also on the family’s ability to implement key practices to promote health, prevent childhood illnesses that continue to kill millions (such as pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria) and access essential health services....
Child Protection
SCOEN seeks to ensure that all children are protected from all forms of exploitation, neglect, physical, sexual or emotional abuse through effective national and community based child protection systems. Child protection is a key component of SCOEN programmes. It cuts across all our project implementation and advocacy and we have continued to...
Our Priorities in adolescent
Prioritizing adolescent health
This important initiative is crucial. For many girls and women in the country, gender discrimination is all too common.
Ending Adolescent AIDS
Although efforts have been taken to stem the rising tide of HIV among youth, success is limited, and adolescent girls are at a clear disadvantage
Provide the ticket to education: clean water
Did you know that girls in poor communities often miss school because of a lack of clean water in their village?
Support girls and women in crisis
Millions of girls are subjected to abuse, child labor, sex trafficking, child marriage, and other offenses.
Mentor a girl close to home
A growing poverty rate, poor-performing schools, and teen violence make it tough to be a girl growing up in the Uganda.
Power of Partnership
It is imperative that we partner help the adolescents by empowering them to make good decisions for thier own physical and sexual health.
Upcoming Events
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International Youth Day
August 12
