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This intervention seeks to galvanise the debate around social protection for older persons in Uganda as a right and to reframe social assistance from ‘grants’ into a form of pension to which older persons above 60 years of age should be entitled. In collaboration with older persons, influential opinion leaders, media, civil society, domestic policy makers and the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights, we will engage in research, evidence-based advocacy, litigation and capacity building to achieve this goal. Drawing on the collective strengths of the partners and the networks we have cultivated over the last decade working on social protection in Uganda, as well as ISER’s observer status with the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights, we will seek to shift public discourse, enhance understanding of rights-based social protection, and ultimately promote the right to a pension for all Ugandan citizens and legal residents aged 60 and above.