Health, water, and education top problems Ugandan youth want government to address

A majority of young respondents say their country is going in “the wrong direction” (53%) and give negative assessments of the nation’s economy (65%) and their personal living conditions (54%). [...] Crime/security and unemployment top the list in Nigeria (Duntoye & Mbaegbu, 2023), management of the economy and corruption in Kenya (Okello & Iberi, 2023), and economic management and unemployment in Ghana (Kwadzo & Boateng, 2023). [...] Figure 7: Country’s direction | by age group | Uganda | 2022 100% 80% 53% 50% 47% 47% 51% Going in the 60% wrong direction 40% Going in the 20% 46% 48% 53% 52% 48% right direction 0% 18-35 years 36-45 years 46-55 years 56 years National and above average Respondents were asked: Would you say that the country is going in the wrong direction or going in the right direction? About two-thirds (65%) of. [...] Regional coordination of national partners in about 35 countries is provided by the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) in South Africa, and the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Nairobi in Kenya. [...] Institute of Peace, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, the Open Society Foundations - Africa, Luminate, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Mastercard Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the European Union Commission, the World Bank Group, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Uganda, the.