Advancing Design Equity in Uganda Schools

Fifty-one year-old George Okumu is a farmer based in BaroLemo village in Gulu district. He is married to two wives and has nine children. George attended a community training on sanitation and learned how basic sanitation services hold promise for healthier families. After learning, George volunteered to be the team leader of the Sanitation Committee in his village.

Award winning photo featured on the cover page of the 2023 US Report on Aid to the People of Uganda.

Working through grantee organizations, USHA supports schools to attain a WASH friendly status, which involves promoting of handwashing with soap, proper menstrual hygiene management, and operation and maintenance of sanitation and water facilities. The USHA team also helps revive and institute school health clubs, encourage key hygiene behaviors, construct improved segregated toilets for boys and girls, and provide access to safe drinking water

Since August 2020, The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) has implemented the Local Partner Health Services (LPHS) – Ankole and Acholi Activity funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The Activity has supported the Government of Uganda (GOU) in making substantial…

The USAID Local Partner Health Services (LPHS)—Ankole and Acholi Activity championed the 2023 pre-World AIDS Day commemoration activities in the Acholi sub-region. These pre-WAD events were held at four different locations: Gulu University in Gulu City, Bobi HC III and Pukony in Odek subcounty, Omoro district; Awach HC IV and a community served by the HC IV in Gulu district.

3.6 billion people globally still live without access to safely managed sanitation and over 494 million still practicing open defecation. Safely managed sanitation is a toilet that is not shared by other households and has a washable floor where human excreta is hygienically separated from human contact and is disposed of safely. In Uganda, according to the Water and Environment Sector Report 2020, only 78% have access to toilets and…