AfriChild Centre

Established in January 2013, The AfriChild Centre works to improve Child protection practice and inform policy through a systematic process of scientific research, analysis and knowledge development. The Centre seeks to deepen the quality of evaluative research and effectiveness measurement of child wellbeing interventions, in line with ensuing glo... bal discourse among child rights activists and child protection actors. The AfriChild Centre is a product of the Uganda Program Learning Group of the Child Protection in Crisis (CPC) Network promoted by six partners namely: Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development; UNICEF-Uganda; ChildFund International Uganda Office; Makerere University College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHUSS); TPO Uganda; and Columbia University. The Centre seeks to strengthen and carry forward the existing efforts of pursuing a research and learning agenda that will benefit a cross range of stakeholders including donors, UN agencies, NGOs, private sector, academic partners and government actors to generate evidence and link research findings to global practice through its mission statement "to contribute to knowledge building and skills development in regards to policies, programs and practices that impact on the lives and wellbeing of the African Child, especially in Sub Saharan Africa region".Read More