Situka Alliance Initiative Uganda

Domestic Violence is a barrier for quality maternal nutrition and RMNCAH outcomes and subverts efforts to achieve SDG 2, 3 & 5. Violence manifests in: structural, political and cultural systems; bodily injuries and physical assault. At individual level this presents as: pregnancy before 18 years; malnourishment in utero, obstructed labour; Fistula; Unplanned pregnancies; Sexually Transmitted Infections. Background: RMNCAH outcomes such as  ensuring safer, optimal birth outcomes, maternal well-being, nutrition and autonomy for women to have opportunities for self-care  are linked to reduced risk to Violence. This study explored negative stereotypes of hegemonic masculinity and the social structures linked to it. An exploration of 8 Sub-Saharan African countries found 3 country specific definitive social structures impacting the stereotypes, i.e., Enabling; Restrictive; and Hindering structures.  Methods: A meta-analysis of data and research fi...

SAI has continued to align its vision and community development strategy with intent upon restoring hope among the Ugandan populace. The corporate initiative gives precedence to developmental approaches that consider male gender at the centrality of spurring a fundamental change of households as well as the community. It’s driven by a refined notion that men being involved in community development programs would irrefutably translates into uplifting the welfare and amplifying the dignity of females in the society. The underlying practical based conviction is that systems that render man powerless in the lenses of the community or induce his dis-empowerment ruin the position of man in spearheading change.  In our culture it’s regarded as a form of belittlement that lowers man’s esteem, and affects his self-image, man intuitively feels incapacitated and lacks the motivation to forge a congenial environment that addresses the needs of his family and the community; this ultimate ...