Violence in childhood has serious consequences on children’s mental and physical health and has long been declared a world health emergency. As far back as a decade ago, violence against children was already costing world economies USD $7 trillion annually. The Government of Uganda years ago, also declared Sexual Violence Against Children (SVAC) a public health problem and has a National Plan of Action that runs up to 2031. Over the last five years, some of the Joining Forces members, for instance Child Fund, Save the Children and World Vision, have supported studies analysing the levels and types of national funding allocated to child protection. This paper reflects on some of these coalition studies and other evidence and argues that severe chronic underfunding towards implementation of government-planned interventions against sexual abuse of millions of children, has serious consequences. It undermines both prevention and response efforts and the realisation of ambitious human capital development, security, and government program outcomes — all of which are under the newly launched National Development Plan (NDP) IV as well as the national 10-fold growth strategy objectives.