On Thursday the 27th of January next week, WFAD alongside UYDEL will be organising a webinar on “Victimisation, Suicide and Coping among Vulnerable slum youth who use drugs during COVID-19 crisis in Uganda and Nepal.” This webinar, taking place at 2.00pm CET/ 4.00pm EAT/ 6.45pm NPT, will give the floor to  Rogers Kasirye (UYDEL), Barbara Nakijoba (UYDEL) and Sumnima Tuladhar (CWIN) as our keynote speakers. They will be sharing research and cases highlighting the situations in Uganda and Nepal. 

Urban young people faced a myriad of problems and during COVID 19 this may have worsened. Normally this population is neglected by many formal programmes as these young people may have lost parent and family contacts. The study at will be presented at the webinar examined the factors associated with suicide, victimization, and coping among vulnerable youth who use drugs in Uganda. The analyses were based on cross-sectional survey data, collected from 2020, of a convenient sample (n = 583) of urban youth who are also former UYDEL beneficiaries. Findings shed more light on the unmet need of this vulnerable population with heightened use of drugs and alcohol, criminality, sex work and begging. Strategies to address the plight of this vulnerable population included; utilizing interventions that addresses youth unemployment, alcohol and drugs strengthening family, community support and parenting, provision of vocational skills training, financial literacy and socio-economic empowerment and therein provision of cash transfers and booster grants to vulnerable youth.

Go to Webinar Registration, to join the webinar.