GENDER & Community Based Services

          General Community Development Issues

 The Community Based services sector is one of the major sectors in the district and is composed of; 1- ) Probation Youth, Children and Social welfare 2- ) Gender, Culture and Community Development 3- ) Disability and Elderly and 4- ) Labour and Industrial Relations

The Directorate contributes to the overall district mission through promotion of social development, which involves positive transformation of beliefs, knowledge, attitudes and practices of people within households, communities and groups. Performance indicators for gender and community development are presented in Table 8.1.

Table 1: Performance Indicators under Gender & Community Development

The FAL leaners by gender and age group are presented in Table 2

                 Table 2: Number of FAL learners by gender and age group

              Source: Community Based Services Annual Report 2017

Community Projects

Over 254 self-initiated, NGO and Government supported community projects are being implemented in the district as detailed below:

• MUDIPU save programme supports 54 PWD groups;
• Government’s PWDs special Grant has so far supported 32 PWDs groups;
  • Uganda Entrepreneurship programme (UWEP) has supported 14 women groups with financial capital;
  • Youth livelihood programme (YLP) has so far supported 53 youth groups with financial capital and this has enabled them to start assorted projects;
  • Sibanga –Butta community development Project has supported over 100 self help groups with financial literacy and Community based trainings; and
  • Swiss Contact is supporting 5 groups with Economic strengthening skills trainings.

Source: community based services Annual Report 2017

        Gender and Culture

Table 3: Education attainment

  Source: UBOS (2017): Uganda National Population and Housing census, 2014

 Probation, OVCs and Child Protection Issues

Orphan hood status

63% percent of the orphans lost their mothers.

26% percent lost their fathers

09% percent lost both parents.

 Situation of OVC

Total number of OVCs:           123,696 (27.6% of children in the district).

• Orphans constitute of XXXX percent of OVCs                      24207).
• Other categories of OVCs include:

-           Child mothers aged 12-17 years:                   -

-           Child labourers:                                                          578

-           Children with disability:                                             4312

-           Children heading households:                                   073

-           Children out of school:                                               -

• Number of orphanage homes by location:                             01
• Number of child resettlement centres:                                     NONE

Source: 2012 OVC Mapping/2014 NPCR

     Youth and Culture

• 53 youth groups supported through Youth livelihood programme (YLP)
• Over 400 school going children empowered with Reproductive health information, HIV/AIDs prevention information, life skills courtesy of Life Africa Mission project (LAMPs project)

Crime (Consult DPC)

Annual Summarised Crime Reports

            Table 4: Annual Crimes 2016 and 2017

         Source: Manafwa District Central Police Services Annual Report, 2017