Uganda Program for Human and Holistic Development (UPHOLD)

UPHOLD's characteristic approaches included:

• Strengthening human capacity and creating synergy between the sectors - for example, in the area of primary education, UPHOLD worked to build capacity in planning, management, and supervision at decentralised levels and to foster parental involvement.
• Strengthening partnerships and dialogue between the public sector, the private sector, civil society, families, and communities - for example, to enable increased access to and quality of education, UPHOLD facilitated dialogue and consensus-building between families, communities, teachers, and other stakeholders.
• Building on the existing strengths and opportunities of Uganda's human and socio-cultural resources, such as by working to stimulate use of "innovative" tools and approaches to improve children's learning in school and at home.
• Cultivating a behaviour-centred orientation that focuses on understanding and strategically addressing human motivations and constraints in taking specific actions - UPHOLD sought, for instance, to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV/AIDS by encouraging behaviour change around sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Using these strategies, UPHOLD hoped to improve antenatal and postnatal care, as well as safe and clean deliveries and obstetric care, by fostering dialogue and decision-making in families and communities.
• Improving quality assurance systems - UPHOLD hoped to bolster services for HIV/AIDS voluntary counseling and testing, as well as to increase access to and utilisation of quality family planning services and efficient synergies to the end of controlling HIV/AIDS, STIs, and malaria.
• Deepening systems thinking using creative processes for strategic analysis and planning - UPHOLD worked to support people living with HIV/AIDS and to develop approaches to empower and involve young people and address gender and culture.

For details on specific UPHOLD strategies and projects, click here.

Education, Health, HIV/AIDS, Youth, Family Planning, Children.