About this Project
Overall goal:
The overall goal of the CMV project is to investigate and reveal the gendered, generational, structural, and cultural forces that frame young motherhood and how young mothers navigate the social definitions to meet their SRH needs. More specifically, we will further analyze policies that shape adolescents’ SRHR, assess young mothers’ everyday experiences of parenthood, how young mothers conceptualize and navigate social norms and describe the process of knowledge co-creation.
Study objectives:
- To examine existing policies, programs, and practices that shape adolescent sexual and reproductive health and (in)justice in Uganda;
- To assess young mothers’ everyday encounters, struggles, and resistance to the dominant gendered, generational, structural, and cultural forces that frame young motherhood and how they negotiate motherhood;
- To analyze young mothers’ conceptualization of the gendered social norms that shape their SRH experiences and realities;
- To describe the process of co-creating youth-focused, contextually relevant knowledge required for young mothers’ SRH justice;
- To analyze the public response to young people’s engagement in research, advocacy, and conversations about young motherhood.
Funding
The project is generously funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada through the Partnership Development Grant program
Duration: 3 years
Partnership
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The project is being implemented by a partnership between the University of Victoria’s (Uvic) School of Child and Youth Care, Makerere University’s (MUK) School of Women and Gender studies (SWGS), and Nascent Research and Development Organisation (Nascent RDO).