{UAH} Addressing Poverty in Uganda in the Political Forum at the UNAA Convention

The Political Forum

at the

30^th Annual UNAA Convention

Seattle, WA

Saturday September 1, 2018

 

What is poverty?

 

The World Bank describes poverty as follows.

 

"Poverty is the lack or insufficiency of money to meet basic needs, including food, clothing and shelter. Poverty can be measured in monetary terms based on the monthly (or annual) expenditure of a given individual. That expenditure is then compared to a threshold called the poverty line. However, poverty is much more than the mere lack of money. It is also about deprivation in other important areas of wellbeing such as education, health, water, and housing."

 

As a general baseline measurement, monetary poverty is defined as the state of living on $1.90 per person per day or less.

 

So how has Uganda performed in terms of reducing poverty over the last decade?

 

According to the World Bank's 2016 Poverty Assessment, Uganda has reduced monetary poverty at a very rapid rate. The proportion of the Ugandan population living on $1.90 per person per day or less declined from 53.2% in 2006 to 34.6% in 2013. Nonetheless, the country is lagging behind in several important non-monetary areas, notably improved sanitation, access to electricity, education (completion and progression), and child malnutrition.

 

In comparison, the World Bank placed monetary poverty levels at about 28% in Tanzania and 35% in Kenya in 2016.

 

So what are the primary causes of poverty in Uganda and what is the Government of Uganda doing to further reduce it in the country?

 

Join us this coming Labor Day weekend as we ask visiting politicians from Uganda to address this, and other, very contentious issues during the Political Forum at the 30^th Annual  UNAA Convention in Seattle.

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