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Enhancing Women and Girls Agency and Voice
ACFODE advances women’s and girls’ rights by dismantling structural barriers, strengthening leadership, expanding civic participation and supporting women and girls to exercise voice and agency.
Enhancing Women and Female Youth Awareness and Political Participation in North and South Western Uganda
To contribute to increased civic engagements and support for women and female youth’s participation in political leadership.
Expected outcomes
- Increased number of citizens (rights holders) actively engage in civic and democratic processes.
- Strengthened capacities of duty bearers to influence inclusive and responsive policies.
- Increased number of women and female youth supported to undertake political leadership positions.
Project strategies
- Capacity building
- Development and dissemination of IEC materials
- Community conscientization through Barazas on civic and political participation
- Radio programmes
- International and national policy dialogue
From Participation to Influence: Strengthening Women’s and Youth Leadership and Accountability in Northern and South Western Uganda (2026–2028)
To contribute to stronger women’s and youth agency, gender equality and more accountable, responsive governance at district and national levels.
Expected outcomes
- Women and youth leaders have stronger leadership and governance skills.
- Women and youth caucuses are active and able to engage in policy and budget discussions.
- Civil society organisations strengthen their role in policy influence and accountability.
- Women and youth leaders engage safely and confidently in media and digital spaces.
- District leaders and civil society actors work more collaboratively to improve plans, budgets and service delivery.
Project strategies
- Capacity building
- Structured mentorship
- Women and youth caucuses
- Policy and accountability engagements
- Media and digital engagements
- Research and documentation
- National policy dialogue
- Male engagement
Enhancing Women, Girls, and Youth Economic Security
ACFODE addresses barriers to economic opportunity, including employment disparities, wage gaps and limited access to resources such as credit and land, while promoting rights, financial literacy and women’s control of productive assets.
Increasing Economic Security and Opportunity for Women in Cooperatives in Kasese District
To increase productivity, income and access to resources by women in Mt. Rwenzori Coffee Farmers’ Cooperative Union in Kasese District through promoting their rights, financial literacy skills and involvement in profitable social enterprises through training and resources.
To increase women's incomes and asset ownership in Kasese District by 2027.
Expected outcomes
- Increased number of women owning productive assets such as land.
- Increased involvement by women in innovative, decent and profitable social enterprises.
- Increased number of women controlling resources like finances independently or jointly without coercion.
- Improved livelihoods of women and their families.
- Reduced cases of Violence against Women in targeted communities.
- Increased number of women in influential leadership positions in cooperatives.
Project strategies
- Needs assessments
- Capacity building
- Profiling women’s groups
- Digitalization
- Linkages
To Advance Gender Equitable Social Norms
ACFODE promotes positive gender norms through transformative approaches, including male engagement, to challenge unequal power relations and restrictive stereotypes and enable women and girls to pursue their desired lives free from violence.
Spotlight Initiative 2.0: Eliminate Violence Against Women and Girls in Uganda
To support adolescent girls and young women to access universal health, enjoy their Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (RHR) and live free from all forms of Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) in Uganda.
To ensure that adolescent girls and young women access universal health services and live free from all forms of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV).
Expected outcomes
- Enhanced awareness of gender-equitable social norms, attitudes and behaviours that prevent SGBV and advance SRHR in schools.
- Greater AGYW groups influence and agency to work on ending VAWG in communities, institutions and refugee settlements.
Project strategies
- Media engagements
- Community mobilization and stakeholder engagements
- Male engagements
- Networking and collaborations
Men & Women Together Promoting Social Gender Transformation in Their Refugee and Host Communities Towards a Peaceful Coexistence
Men and women together promoting social and gender transformation in communities towards peaceful coexistence in Kyegegwa District by empowering men and women in refugee and host communities. The overall goal is to prevent violence, promote civil conflict transformation and peace in crisis zones and conflict regions.
Expected outcomes
- Community members are informed through trainings on prevention of violence against women and girls and participate in deconstruction of existing gender-specific norms.
- Boys and girls use information structures, dialogue formats and awareness raising to learn life skills and GBV prevention.
- Households are able to participate in decision-making about household resources and benefit from government development programmes.
- Women are strengthened through training, take on leadership positions and participate in decision-making.
- Duty bearers actively support implementation of gender-equitable laws and strategies.
Project strategies
- Research and advocacy
- Gender transformative approaches
- Capacity building
- Strategic engagements, networking and collaborations
- Community mobilization and engagements
- Media engagements
- Documentation
Influence Policies, Systems, and Practices that Promote Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality
ACFODE advocates for gender-responsive policies and strategies, conducts gender analyses and audits, and builds the capacity of policymakers, practitioners and other stakeholders to translate gender equality commitments into practice.
Strengthening Women’s Civil Society and Women Environmental Human Rights Defenders' Political Participation and Influence for a Just, Green Future
The project focuses on supporting women-led CSOs and youth to advocate for gender-responsive climate and environmental policies.
To enhance the agency, safety, and influence of women’s civil society organizations and women environmental human rights defenders.
Expected outcomes
- Enhanced capacity of women CSOs including women EHRDs to drive and influence environmental policies.
- Women EHRDs and women CSOs empowered to build the evidence base for global advocacy for better protection and access to civic and political spaces.
- Women CSOs and women EHRDs’ priorities strengthened in political platforms and policy dialogues to shape climate and environmental policies at country, regional and global level based on pilot countries’ experiences.
Project strategies
- Stakeholder engagement to influence policy and laws
- Community mobilization and engagements
- Research and documentation
- Media engagements
- Collaborations with CBOs, media and Government agencies
Strengthening Women’s Rights Advocacy and Institutional Capacity for Advancing the Maputo Protocol
To strengthen the capacity and effectiveness of Women’s Rights Organizations (WROs) in advocating for and advancing implementation of the Maputo Protocol, thereby promoting gender equality and women’s rights in Uganda.
Expected outcomes
- Strengthened capacity of actors within the women’s movement to systematically document their contributions.
- Enhanced stakeholders’ understanding of the Protocol to foster greater ownership and commitment to its advancement.
Project strategies
- Research and evidence-based advocacy
- National dialogue
Strengthen ACFODE’s Institutional Stability to Deliver Her Strategic Plan Effectively, Efficiently and Her Mandate
ACFODE strengthens its people, systems, membership, partnerships and institutional capacity while supporting other civil society and community-based organisations to advance gender equality and social accountability.
Building Resilience, Growing Together (BRiGT)
To strengthen ACFODE's institutional capacity, deepen advocacy for gender-responsive governance, and foster economic empowerment for women and youth.
To empower women, youth, and girls to fully engage in and benefit from socio-economic opportunities, in an environment free from all forms of violence.
Expected outcomes
- Increased networking, movement and alliance building for collective action to change mindsets and transform policies, norms and beliefs across political, economic and cultural systems.
- More women have equitable access, ownership and control of productive assets, resources and opportunities, including land and finances.
- Gender responsive and inclusive products provided by the private sector and financial institutions.
- ACFODE’s funding portfolio increased for effective and sustainable policy and programme implementation.
- ACFODE’s membership capacity to actively engage in organisational initiatives increased.
Project strategies
- Building human resource capacity
- Policy review and development
- Strengthen membership engagement
- Documentation and learning
- Networking and collaboration
- Media and publicity
- Mentorship and coaching
Gender Lighthouse Organization (GLO)
To utilize existing knowledge and expertise in promoting gender equality in H3000’s work and provide technical support and mentorship to partner organisations in applying gender-transformative approaches within their programmes and internal systems.
Project strategies
- Collaboration
- Male engagements
- Mentorship, coaching and learning sessions for partners
From strategy to meaningful change.
Through evidence, leadership, transformative engagement, economic empowerment and institutional strength, ACFODE works toward a just society where gender equality is a reality.