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Country

Uganda

Scores
47.5/100
Overall
48.4/100
Governance and accountability
33.3/100
Prevention
45.0/100
Healing
52.0/100
Justice

Eastern & Southern Africa and West & Central Africa

6th

Overall

3rd

Governance and accountability

7th

Prevention

5th

Healing

10th

Justice

Shared rank — one or more countries have the same score.

Pathfinding Global Alliance

22nd

Overall

13th

Governance and accountability

18th

Prevention

21st

Healing

21st

Justice

Shared rank — one or more countries have the same score.

Ending Violence Against Children pledging process

30th

Overall

16th

Governance and accountability

27th

Prevention

28th

Healing

31st

Justice

Shared rank — one or more countries have the same score.

Background indicators
GDP per capita
1072.71
Level of poverty
20.3
Gini coefficient
42.7
Rule of Law Index
0.39
Gender Inequality Index (GII)
0.52
Women in parliament
34.1
Gender gap in educational attainment
0.93
LGBTQ Equality Index
9.0
Birth registration
32.0
Internet penetration rate
8.95
Lead child protection ministries or agencies
2.0
Child marriage
34.0
Sexual violence
17.0
Online child sexual abuse
6.5
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6th
within Eastern & Southern Africa and West & Central Africa
out of 16 countries
1st
in its low income classification
out of 7 countries
24.9
million children in Uganda
represents 5.5% of the region's total population under the age of 18
See the data from Uganda's Violence Against Children and Youth Survey

 

This country’s score places it in the middle third of those assessed in the Index

This mid-range ranking indicates that important steps have been taken to prevent and respond to sexual violence against children and adolescents. However, while certain key laws, policies, or services may exist, gaps remain in coverage, or accountability.

By strengthening coordination, investing in prevention and survivor services, and closing remaining legal and policy gaps, meaningful gains are within reach.

This score is not a judgement — it is a roadmap for progress.

The Index evaluates countries against 23 indicators covering the foundational laws, policies, programs, and services governments should have in place to end sexual violence against children and adolescents. 

By using these indicators as a step-by-step guide, countries can make meaningful progress toward eliminating sexual violence in their country and improving their ranking in the next Index cycle.

Advocacy in action

 

Janet Aguti is a Ugandan social worker and life coach, and a co-founder of the Brave Movement. 

As a survivor of sexual abuse, she transformed her own experiences into founding a social enterprise called Totya Platform, specializing in helping victims and survivors of sexual violence to access psychosocial support services via an anonymous hotline, the only hotline in Uganda dedicated to survivors of sexual abuse.

Since 2018, Janet has been actively involved in the Zero Tolerance campaign by Ending Clergy Abuse (ECA) and advocating for it to be passed as a Universal Law to protect children, adolescents and vulnerable adults from all forms of clergy abuse. 

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Third Richest Nation

www.bravemovement.org/campaigns/third-richest-nation

A world without childhood violence would be $7 trillion richer. This nation isn’t real. Its wealth could be. Brave Movement's survivor-led advocacy campaign at the G20 in 2025 pressured decision makers to invest in prevention, healing and justice to create stronger, happier nations.

#BeBrave G7 Scorecard 2025

www.bravemovement.org/g7

By evaluating each G7 nation’s progress on vital policy measures we're drawing global attention to the global, silent pandemic of sexual violence against children. This is a crisis that undermines the G7's commitment to building secure, prosperous, and equitable societies. Kids need bold leadership and decisive action now to be safe and thrive.

Break the record

www.togetherforgirls.org/en/press/a-record-breaking-event-now-governments-must-deliver

We broke the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ for the most countries represented at a childhood violence summit! With 120 governments attending, this first ever Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children was the largest organized event to address this issue on a global scale. Most importantly, as a result, we also broke the world’s record of inaction against childhood sexual violence.