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Happy to participate in today's technical handover of WASH facilities at Namukuma rural growth centre and Muyubwe landing site in #Buikwe. No doubt that the new facilities will contribute to improved sanitation & hygiene, increase quality of life and reduce risk of disease. 🇮🇸🇺🇬

Water & sanitation are at the core of sustainable development, critical to the survival of people & our planet. That is why WASH is a key priority in our development cooperation in 🇺🇬, providing thousands of people with access to clean water over the years. #WorldWaterDay2024

Congratulations to our dear colleagues in Sierra Leone on the opening of a new Embassy of Iceland in Freetown. Very exciting times ahead with three diplomatic missions of Iceland in Africa. 🇺🇬🇸🇱🇲🇼🇮🇸

Iceland has supported fistula programmes & campaigns with UNFPA from 2007. Women and girls at risk of #fistula are also at risk of maternal mortality. Action to end the injury is a matter of life and death! #EndFistula #IDEOF2024 endfistula.org

On World Menstrual Hygiene Day I had the privilege of visiting AFRIpads with 🇩🇰 and 🇸🇪. We toured the impressive factory + followed a school tutorial on how to use and clean reusable pads + got to hand out a reusable pads to a few students 🥳 #MHD2024 #PeriodFriendlyWorld

WASH services are key for menstrual hygiene management which is why Iceland ensures all schools it supports in #Buikwe and #Namayingo districts have adequate access to water and improved girls’ latrines. Photo: menstruation tracker bracelet 🤩 #PeriodFriendlyWorld

Today, UNFPA Uganda, with support from Iceland in Uganda, joined Ministry of Health- Uganda & partners to commemorate the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula in Namayingo district. Speakers called for enhancing of maternal health services & ending teenage pregnancy to prevent Fistula.

It’s the end of Menstrual Hygiene Month, but this shouldn't be the only time of the year we think about the importance of menstrual health and hygiene! We were honored to host the Danish ambassador to Uganda, Signe Winding Albjerg, Maria Håkansson the Swedish ambassador to

Thank you WFP_Uganda for organizing such a successful visit to #Karamoja. Very impressed by the results our partnership is already showing and deeply touched by the warm welcome from the local communities and the happy and well-fed learners. 🇮🇸🇺🇳🇺🇬

Today we Icelanders celebrate a milestone in our history. On June 17 in 1944, eighty years ago, the Republic of Iceland came into being. Ever since, we have been determined to build a society where we all have equal opportunities to prosper. Long live the Republic of Iceland! 🇮🇸

Our successful partnership with UNICEF Uganda means that both refugees and host communities in West Nile have better access to water and sanitation in more than 50 schools and almost 20 health centres. #WorldRefugeeDay

Halla Tómasdóttir took office as the 7th president of Iceland today. We thank Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, the outgoing president, for his excellent work and service to our country over the past eight years and wish Halla the best of success in her new role. 📸Eggert Jóhannesson

Uganda 🇺🇬 is the biggest partner country where all four GRÓ training programmes have been active. In the annual report you can read about the the first joint GRÓ alumni event, held in Kampala in March 2023, where alumni from all four training programmes participated. 👇

Congratulations Uganda and Joshua Cheptegei 🇺🇬🇺🇬 🥇🥇. What an incredible 10,000 m race at the #OlympicGamesParis2024. Such a well-deserved gold medal to 🇺🇬 tonight.

#DidYouKnow? To complement the school meal menu, schools in #Karamoja are growing fresh greens🥬 and orange-fleshed sweet potatoes🍠from the school gardens. On the road to #HealthyFuture W/ Iceland in Uganda

On this World Humanitarian Day we honour the extraordinary efforts, commitment and bravery of all humanitarian workers. We express our deep concern for increase in violence and deaths of humanitarian workers around the world and call for their protection when delivering aid.

Next week, from 8th to 13th September, Marie Stopes UG, in partnership with UNFPA Uganda, Iceland in Uganda, Ministry of Health- Uganda, the AOGU, will be holding a surgical camp for Obstetric Fistula at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital Regional Referral Hospital. If you know a woman or friend in need of this

Iceland so happy to partner with WFP_Uganda on energising and decarbonising the school meals programme in #Karamoja. Wishing all children in Uganda 🇺🇬 a nutritious and enjoyable #BackToSchool day! MFA Iceland Development 🇮🇸