Uganda
Transforming Futures: AGENCI’s Impact on Adolescent Girls in Crisis Contexts
At WUSC, we believe in the transformative power of education to unlock opportunities and create brighter futures for young people, their families, and their communities. A quality education can help young people to better understand and exercise their rights, be happier, healthier, and contribute to positive change in their community and broader society. This belief…
| News, Resources, Success Stories | AGENCI, Education, Empowerment, South Sudan, Syria, Uganda
Growth Beyond the Classroom: How Mentorship Boosts Girls’ Empowerment
You can’t overstate the importance of girls’ education. It provides the first building blocks for girls to start creating a good life, and to become women who contribute to the prosperity of their families and communities. But not all girls around the world have access to the conditions that enable them to enroll in school…
| News | AGENCI, Canada, Durable Solutions for Refugees, Education, Empowerment, Student Refugee Program, Uganda
From Ideas to Impact: Supporting People Affected by Forced Displacement with Solutions for Refugees by Refugees
Results of the 2021 – 2023 Partner Innovation Fund Cohort With more than 120 million people forcibly displaced around the world, all organizations, institutions, and businesses need to examine how they can better integrate refugees and other displaced people into their programs and services. Stand alone initiatives for refugees are no longer sufficient to enable…
| News | Durable Solutions for Refugees, Economic Opportunities, Education, IGNITE, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Volunteering for Development
How WUSC’s Partner Innovation Fund Supports Local Solutions to Improve Women’s Economic Empowerment
The barriers facing women’s full economic participation are many. In some countries, there are legal constraints to women’s rights to work, including a lack of protection from sexual harassment in the workplace. Women also bear a disproportionate responsibility for unpaid care and domestic work and are less likely to have access to education, technology, and…
| News | Economic Opportunities, Ghana, IGNITE, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Vietnam
International Seminar 2021: Applications Open!
The International Seminar is an annual WUSC event for young leaders from around the world to collaborate, share ideas and create long lasting relationships. Each year explores a different contemporary development issue through youth-driven ideas, research and solutions. Since its first iteration in 1948, the International Seminar has seen thousands of participants collaborate on projects…
| Events | Canada, Economic Opportunities, Ghana, IGNITE, International Seminar, Kenya, Malawi, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Vietnam, Volunteering for Development
A Bridge to the Future: From Higher Education to Employment for Displaced Youth in Africa
From July 2019 to September 2019, World University Service of Canada (WUSC) was contracted by Mastercard Foundation to conduct research into bridging initiatives and programs that support displaced youth, including refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), in sub-Saharan Africa to access higher education and employment upon graduation. This mapping study, A Bridge to the Future:…
| Resources | Durable Solutions for Refugees, Economic Opportunities, Education, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Report, Uganda
