Section 4: Using VACS data for programs, policy & research
4.3 VACS for advocacy: Child policy in Uganda
Welcome to Section 4.2 Violence against children, self-harm, and suicidal behaviours!
Lydia Najjemba Wasula, Ministry of Gender Labour & Social Development in Uganda
Lydia talks to us about establishing VAC prevalence estimates in Uganda using VACS data. She explains how VACS data were used to inform the development of effective violence prevention and response strategies to identify and prevent VAC, and how VACS evidence guided legislative and policy formulation in Uganda.
More resources on VACS evidence informing violence prevention and response strategies in Uganda
Uganda Violence Against Children and Youth Survey (VACS) report 2018 (data collection 2015).
Uganda’s commitments at the Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children in 2024:
Explore Section 4:
- 4.1 Reporting & communicating data on violence
- 4.2 Violence against children, self-harm, and suicidal behaviors
- 4.3 VACS for advocacy: Child policy in Uganda
- 4.4 Geospatial patterns of violence against adolescent girls & young women in Namibia
- 4.5 VACS informing national policy in Colombia
- 4.6 Strategic application of VACS findings in LVCT Health's programming
- 4.7 Concluding the LearnVACS course!
