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The Report culminates from an assessment that was carried out in Bukwo District, Sebei Sub-region on live skills and values among adolescents aged between 13-17 years.

Created in 2005, Bukwo District bordered by Amudat District to the north, Kenya to the east and south, and Kween District to the west and northwest. The town of Bukwo is approximately 83 kilometres (52 mi), by road, northeast of Mbale the nearest large city. In the slopes of Mt. Elgon

The Assesment of life skills and Values in East Africa (ALiVE) was done in Twenty (20) EAs in Bukwo District and some of its findings are;14.1% of the Adolescents are struggling to recorgnize a problem or its nature and therefore unable to identify possible solutions,1.8% are able to recorgnize existence of a problem from multiple perspectives,understanding that there might be multiple solutions. 15.9% of the Adoloscents are aware of the links between Respect for property and Respect for people and will act in a respectful way toward others and in defence of others and self.

“We are glad that Bukwo Was chosen as an assessment area and the Report will help us improve in many areas”

A total of 11,074 adolescents aged 13-17 years, from 7,815 households across 400 enumeration
areas in 20 districts participated in the assessment.
The assessment was conducted by 734 volunteers, 66 teacher trainees, 20 district coordinators,
and 40 village coordinators, with support from the local leaders, and ALiVE team.

The was done with support from Uwezo and Luigi Giussani Foundation, an indigenous for impact organisation that has for the last 17 years  been responding to educational challenges in Uganda through research and capacity building at all levels of education.

The Regional Grand Citizens’ Debate provided an opportunity to the citizens to discuss some of the ideas in the public domain in relation to the necessary electoral reforms. It also acted as a launch event for nationwide campaigns for reforms at the regional level. The debate featured keynote speaker who was an expert in freedom fighting, constitution and political economy. A group of panelists identified purposefully from a cream of key stakeholders (EC, political party representatives and experienced opinion makers and shapers) from the region. All the interactions were moderated and citizens present had opportunities to share and also raise questions to respective panelists. A political expert who participated in the drafting of the 1995 constitution gave a keynote address highlighting the justification behind each and every article citing the political turmoil the country had gone through since independence 1962. He also urged that the constitution of Uganda is the best policy and framework in Africa but people charged with implementing it are not doing the right things explaining why we had several amendments in the name of pleasing certain individuals at the expense of the majority Ugandans. Building trust and confidence amongst the Ugandans was the key components in the formulating of the constitution because the previous leaders had abused the systems and there was nothing strong to hold the leaders especially leaders accountability. The discussions and presentations by different stakeholders culminated into the identification of the following issues and proposed recommendations for consideration by the respective electoral related bodies in the country for the growth of democracy, governance and promoting, credible free and fair election.