food for People

kasese District COFFEE

 NURSARIES PROVIDE HEALTH PLANTING MATERIALS

 MUSHROOMS CULTIVATION :Washrooms provide nutrition the households

photo and activitity project

 The above are orphans of lake region who need care and meals. HIV/AIDS has cause massive demage

 processing feeds increase poultry production see second photo

 poor Housing and sanitation is key to Cholera see third photo in mountain area people have no access to water and latrines,defect in bushes case Muhokya subcounty Kasese

 Education for the youth and Girls is saving national from poverty and conflict in Future see fourth photo



bellow is train in sexual reproductive health and rights

mountain people

we also help vulnerable mountain people who suffer remote challenge. we have supplied women and orphans 2000000 ducks to lakes regions in Kasese on George and Edward and Kasese District,54 cows to pastoralism women for yoghurt processing in Muhokya,train 300 women and youth in HIV/AIDS in kasese and trained African arks in entrepreneurship development to the youth.

health

TRAINING
we offer training on issues of sexual reproductive health and rights,HIV/AIDS,family planning,fight water borne diseases and other neglected disease which are common in Tropical Africa.

human rights and Democracy

CIVIC EDUCTION ON ISUES OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND LOW IN THE SOCIETY.
-girls rights
-public health and equal opportunities
-all Ugandans have equal rights to education and public utilities
-economic empowerment of vulnerable and their rights
-voting and reduce impunity and oppression during election

climate change

Key barriers to Ecosystem Based Adaptation

    The impacts of climate change are likely to be significant for the future development trajectory of Uganda due to high and ever increasing population density in, Uganda particularly in mountainous ecosystems like MountainMT.Rwenzoriregion. There is little knowledge on implications or impact of past climate change variability on the Uganda’s economy. This requires a thorough evaluation of the fiscal and social development implications, which would help identify strategic priorities and focus decision maker’s attention to the need and appropriate modalities for adaptation to climate change. Secondly, there are limited landscape level frameworks for internalizing ecosystem resilience to climate change in mountain ecosystems and coherent land use and water resources monitoring and planning system. Thirdly, there are inadequate demonstrated experiences in ecosystem based adaptation approaches at the landscape level.   Lastly, given that EBA is a new management approach, there is need to strengthen the existing institutional capacity and policy framework to promote ecosystem based adaptation approaches.

To address these challenges, there is an urgent need to put in place capacities and tools to remove barriers currently hindering climate risk from being actively integrated within national and sectoral planning. This requires improving the capacity of government decision-makers and private resource users to identify, assess and internalize climate change risks and conserve and rehabilitate natural ecosystems in both mountainous and steep landscapes at all management tiers, including eco-region and watershed. Management approaches should embrace ecosystem wide solutions that incorporate climate change risks and provide clear avenues for adaptation and mitigation. The ultimate success of Ecosystem Based Adaptation will be measured by the ability of ecosystems to continually provide critical services, including the abatement of land 

action taken
tree planting 
water and weterlands conservation
training 
pollution and pollutants management 
mountain resources management 

training and self reliance

training and education of girl child is important tool for community development

Dubbed “promoting and establishing income generating activities for the most disadvantaged people and communities to raise out of Poverty”, the programme is aimed at improving the vocational and entrepreneurial skills of Women and Youth and to increase the access of rural women and youth in Kasese Distrct to household income generation and productive assets that enable self-reliance or enjoyment of life.  The programme will further more increase the access of girls and marginalized children to quality basic education, medication, clothing, food, and well-being.  These women and youth will be trained in mushrooms cultivation, Information Technology (I.T), beads making/art and craft, tailoring and entrepreneurial skills.

 we train women in agriculture and vocational training

consevetion and agriculture

solar: promotion
agro forestry
small scale enterprises

partners

1.Marries-schlei association Germany
2. Nike foundation
3.kikumu agriculture research centre
4.Tools with Mission UK

sexual reights

sexual productive heath and rights

The adolescents are among the most vulnerable to HIV, AIDS, They are the poorest and they are the easily misguided due to lack of experience in life skills. Therefore they take up the highest burden of all the problems of every situation in life of a Ugandan. Uganda is one of the low developed countries in the world., with low per capita incomes, and poor population whereby 31% live under poverty line.

Situation analysis indicates that:

a.    31% of the population live under poverty line. About  85% of the people in Uganda are  peasants who depend on subsistence agriculture for their livelihoods. A survey made by Most young girls who get premarital sex and pregnancies indicate that they do so because they get simple gifts in exchange for unprotected sex as a way of winning financial support from the men as a means of survival.

b.    Life expectancy is at 52 years, this early death in relationship with fertility rates  leads to many children being left as orphans at an early age

c.    Gender Based Violence in Uganda is at 68% for females and 20% for males. This type of violence becomes hard to control when it is at domestic level. The effects can be observed when the children fail to get parental guidance and care, which results into street children and uneducated youth at the end.

d.    Fertility rates are high in Uganda at 6.7 per women. Only 18% of the married women apply modern contraceptive methods. This is because of lack of nearby facilities but also due to lack of education about them. 435 out of 100,000 women die while producing. This is because of low antenatal health care services. Records at most hospitals indicate that 28% of the women who attend to antenatal clinics in Uganda are below 18 years old. Such young girls, despite the fact that they are supposed to care for their babies, they are not allowed under the international labor laws to have gainful employment

e.    According to the UNHS 2005/06 more than 2.1 million children in Uganda are vulnerable which represents up to 13. 1% of the young people in Uganda. According to the records of Uganda beauroux of Statistics (UBOS) up to 3 million children in Uganda are under the category of OVCs and 109,000 children of below 15 years Living with HIV are 2.1million vulnerable children and 2.3million orphans (national development plan 2010/11 -2014/15)

f.     Primary school retention is 53% for boys and 42% for girls while secondary education only 30% of the girls who go to primary schools reach secondary school education at the age of 18 years old. (quoted from UDHS 2009) The high drop  out of girls at schools leads to early marriages and unwanted pregnancies at an early age

g.    HIV prevalence used to be very high; it has been reduced from 30% in eighties to 6-7% in 2008.

h.    The laws of Uganda condemn any sexual relationships with women who are below 18 years; it also condemn any women who aborts a pregnancy which may arise under such circumstances.

i.      The churches in Uganda do not allow the use of contraceptives as part of their norms.

j.      Uganda ranges high in corruption. Although the in national development plan, the Uganda Government has offered to educate OVCs, this money may end up in the pockets of some people or it may end up educating the well to do. It also goes with a cost sharing in terms of scholastic materials, food and uniform which poor parents cannot afford.

Major challenges in service delivery include:

• Some men and women believe they must produce as many children as their bodies can allow.Sme women and men believe in children as a center of attraction to their spouses while others take it as a source of bride. wealth me men and women have a negative attitude towards contraceptives due to some side effects which  attach  them, Some women dry up in their virginal walls and they lose libido while don’t. Some change their behaviour and these changes in behaviour sometimes turn out to cause domestic violence in stable families; the increased period during menstruation scares some women, the deposited increase in the length of time to conceive after withdrawing from the contraceptives scares many who end up as victims.Some women increase weight immediately after getting started with the contraceptives which may lead to hypertension.Other challenges are the insufficient counselling services that lead women to go in for witchcraft as an alternative and some of them believe in the use of herbs and magic for birth controls.Women have to go far to hospitals to access the Long Term Acting Methods which are not available due to lack of technicians.Those who understand family planning are few and most of them cannot put aside money for that purpose.The people are generally poor and the health centres cannot raise the money to serve the communities with family planning services.

  Project Justification

The major area of interest is reducing the fertility rates as a way to reducing family burdens, increasing available time for women labor and increasing household incomes leading to better standards of living

Many healthy workers who have been offering family planning services in Rwenzori Region have not had remarkable impact, the fertility rates continue to increase, while the population increase rate is at its high level. This is because the family planning units which are in place concentrate in health centers which are visited by the few who are not healthy. The association would like to use the community in approach reduction of fertility rates. This is intended to examine and change the attitude, practices and behavior of people. It is intended to attract the young men involvement in the drive towards reducing fertility rates of young women. It is also intended to approach the young women to reduce their urge for early marriages, and early sexual interests as a way to reduce their active reproductive period.

The project is aimed at using community based structures to sensitize their fellow community members to understand family planning and the available contraceptives. We will engage the attendants in drug shops to train in the management of contraceptives, and the use of the available family planning methods. This approach is intended to reach all the people through their own community structures to destroy the wrong impression of the people about contraceptive use and family planning. The project officer will use the radio, the community cultural and religious leaders, the school teachers, The traditional birth attendants (TBAs) the village leaders to sensitize the people about the application of contraceptives. The project staff will be trained in the application of Long Acting and Permanent methods of family planning, as a way to bring the service nearer to the people.

about US

Act women foundation-Uganda

BACKGROUND

The project was established by 23 women in 2004 to address women marginalization or exploitations in rural and lake regions in kasese western Uganda.

ADRESS

Act women foundationUGANDA, P.O BOX 54, Kasese Uganda

Email actkaseseu@gmail.com

Legal status: Act women foundation  -Uganda is registered as an independent, non-partisan, non political, community based organization, non governmental and non profit making organization. we are register by NGO BOARD IN Kampala Uganda

Operational scope

The geographical and programmatic operational scope of the Kasese Dry areas western Uganda and Rwenzori Region

The organizations vision shall be:

The organization’s mission shall be:

To empower women, vulnerable children (OVC) and most at risk population (MARPs) for healthy positive living through increased access to HIV/AIDS – related information, care and support at all levels.

The organizations overall objective: increased access to HIV/AIDS information, care and support to women and vulnerable children in Kasese Western Uganda and outside by 2020.

       As part of its strategic objectives, the organization shall strive to ensure:

1. Delivery of integrated and equitably distributed essentials services to vulnerable women and households that are of sufficiency and of equity.
2. Create a mechanism that can be used by all marginalized groups to able to attain modest standards of living.
3. To strengthen the legal, policy and institutional frameworks for programs that seek to protect households at all levels in democracy.
4. Enhance accountability, public support and sustainability of Act Women Foundation-Uganda and its members.
5. To improve  small scale value addition  among women’s activities which reflect technology and innovation in development  

 PROGRAMS

1. Small scale agriculture

Vegetable cultivation,food security, water and agriculture, rearing, poultry, piggery, coffee, fishing, fish nets

2. HUMAN RIGHTS

Women reproductive rights/health, Sexual abuse, democratic rights, tribalism and corruption

3. HIV/AIDS,Nutrition, education, reproductive health, safe health, and condoms supply.
4. TRAINING :Workshop, Vocational training
5. Health

Maternity and safety women in hospital

TARGET GROUP

Vulnerable women, children.

ORGAN GRAM

1.      foundation structure has the highest policy making organ as the general assembly of members

2.      Board of directors is in charge of policy making and overall supervision of policy implementation.

The executive committee with coming up policy proposals to the general assembly of members and implementation of decisions and policies made by the general assembly of members. The executive committee supervises the affairs of the organization and appoints the members of the secretariat

The executive committee comprises of, chairman, vice chairman, treasurer, general secretary, legal adviser, technical advisor, one member.

3.      Secretariat is headed by executive director. It comprises of coordinator, program officers, accountant, cashier

Each program is attached to volunteer for effectiveness.

 SCOPE

 Lake regions, Kisinga, Kyondo, Mahango, Muhokya, Kasese Municipal council,and  Rukoki  subcounties and bundubugyo Districts  in western Uganda .

CORE VALUES

Vertical and lateral accountability, Transparency.

  PARTNERS/funders

Marie- schlei-verein Associations,kikumu agriculture research centre

Kasese District Local Government

For more information contact:

1.      KANIKI JULIA 

P.O Box 54 Kasese

NGENE HELLEN

Email: actkaseseu@gmail.com