U-Report Poll Results from Uganda for the UN Food Systems Summit Dialogues 2021

The principle of embracing multi-stakeholder inclusivity in the sub national and national Food System Summit dialogues creates a need to strive to showcase as many voices as possible, capturing diverse cultural, professional and gender specific perspectives to ensure design policy options that deliver against multiple public goods and across these various systems. Mobile technology and SMS platforms of recent have represented low-cost means with the potential to reach a wide population and foster open dialogue on issues of public concern

It is against this background that the United Nations Resident Coordinator’s Office in Uganda partnered with UNICEF to develop a concept for the use of the U-report as an innovative component under the communications area to offer a platform that complements the planned dialogues to showcase as many voices as possible on the food systems