Our Members

Council for Economic Empowerment for Women of Africa, Uganda Chapter (CEEWA-U) is a non-governmental, non- partisan professional women organization. It was formed in 1995 and was legally registered in 1997/98. CEEWA- U boasts of 27 years of promoting women economic empowerment in Uganda. It plays a key role in the National Development Plan of Uganda (NDP), and the global sustainable development agenda cross cutting SDG 1 –Zero Hunger, SDG 5-Gender Equality, SDG 8-Decent work and economic growth, SDG 13 –Climate Action, and SDG 17-Partnerships for goals.

Comfort Community Empowerment Network (COCENET) is a women led organization commenced in 2019 to serve and deliver services to realize the positive influence on youth, women and children in the development of the society.

It aims at capacity building and services delivery to the deprived and marginalized people of the society. COCENET works to promote the environment conservation, rights of children and women, and community empowerment in health, education sector and livelihoods towards sustainable development in Buliisa district as a result based organisation.

COCENET operates in seven sub counties which include Buliisa town council, Buliisa Sub County, Kigwera sub county, Ngwendo sub county, Butiabwa sub county, Biiso sub county, Kihungya sub county. The type of activities undertaken by the organization range from capacity building to service delivery, with focus remaining on the deprived and marginalized segments of the society. Whereas in terms of operations what characterizes COCENET’s functioning are its efforts to: a.enlist involvement of the locals when initiating activities at the grass root level; b.Mobilize women for bringing peace, tolerance, and development in society.

Contact details:
Buliisa District
empowermentnetworkc@gmail.com
+256 772 356 841
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Bonabana Lydia Executive Director-COCENET | bonabanalydia30@mail.com | 0785825946 | Twitter @COCENET13 | Facebook @COCENET12

Disabled women in development (DIWODE) is a Non-governmental Organisation (NGO) registered with NGO Board of the government of Uganda targeting women with disabilities. It is a disabled local voluntary organisation formed mainly to focus on social, economic and development interests of the community especially the marginalized women and vulnerable children (orphans).

Contact details:
P.O.BOX 72097 Kampala, Uganda. Martin Road Plot 51, Kampala Central
diwode@gmail.com
+256 776 767048
www.diwode.org
Zawedde Harriet | +256 776 767048

GWAD is a registered non-profit making, Non-Governmental Organization operating in Northern Uganda. It’s an independent body with its Headquarter in Gulu District, was established in 1998 and aims at improving the livelihood of women and children in Northern Uganda.

It was founded to address the suffering of women and children who have adversely been affected by the armed conflicts in Northern Uganda. GWAD focuses on empowering women so that they are enabled to face the challenges with confidence ability.

It works closely with the Gulu District NGOs forum, the Government of Uganda, others NGOs, CBOs and FBOs with similar objectives. GWAD foundation is on the phrase that, “Happy Woman Happy Nation”

Contact details:
Gulu
gwad1998@yahoo.co.uk
0775012860 | 0775784793
www.gwad.org
Denis Oceng | 0775012860 | ocengdenis860@gmail.com

Hope Case Foundation (HCF) is a non profit organization founded in 1997 as Community Based Organization then operating in Namungalwe Sub County, Iganga District by a group of Christian Women in Uganda as a response to Women and Child rights violation, the organization has since grown into a formidable national non profit organization registered as a company limited by guarantee under the laws of Uganda .

Hope Case Foundation[ HCF] operates in Eastern districts of Namayingo , Busia , Mayuge, Bugiri and Butaleja with head office located in Busia District in Eastern Uganda. The program areas of the organization are Women and child rights protection , HIV/AIDs , Water , Sanitation and Hygiene[ WASH] , Climate change , Education , Women and ICTs and Good governance.

Contact details:
Next to Across Jordan Medical Centre along Kaguta Road , Dabani Sub County, Busia District Uganda | P.O Box 364 Busia Uganda
hopecasefoundation@gmail.com
0774900557 | 0772281945
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Damalie Mary Lugudo / James Ojiambo | 0774900557/0772281945

Katosi Women Development Trust (KWDT); registration number S.5914/6911 under the Non-Governmental Organizations Registration Statute of 1989; is a non- profit organisation with a goal to improve living standards of poor, rural fisher communities in Uganda by empowering them to engage in their development processes.

KWDT has been working with rural and fisher women for more than 25 years and has been instrumental in creating change in the lives of the rural fisher women and their communities.

KWFDA started as Katosi Women Fishing Group (KWFG) with 26 women in 1996 in a semi traditional society that placed control of resources and power in the hands of men exacerbating the marginalisation of women and children.

Besides supporting women to participate in fishing activities, the group started to engage women in the removal of the hyacinth, an invasive water weed, from Lake Victoria.

Currently KWDT is coordinating 722 women organized in 31 groups from 4 sub counties and 2 town councils in Mukono, 526 fisher women organised in 11 groups, from 11 landing sites in Buvuma & Kalangala. KWDT intervenes on economic empowerment, access to water, sanitation and improvement of hygiene, formal and non-formal education and environment conservation through the women’s groups. KWDT also seeks a holistic and comprehensive approach of development of people and communities while recognizing the needs to conserve and protect the environment.

Contact details:
Lungujja- Kikandwa, Makamba Zone Plot 901 Kampala
katosiwomen@katosi.org
+256772748774 | +256704090711
www.katosi.org
Nakato Margaret | +256 772 587 427 | nakato@katosi.org

Kigezi Women in Development (KWID) is a women’s rights non-government organization that promotes gender equality in all decision making. KWID is as a result of two development initiatives; the establishment of Women councils in Uganda and World Vision Rukiga Area Development Programme.

KWID was founded in 1996 by Tumuheirwe Florence who was doubling as the women council chairperson for Kyabuhangwa parish and a guide and interpreter for World Vision technical associates, to raise awareness on gender issues affecting her rural community.

KWID’s purpose is to mobilize and encourage their members and beneficiaries, who are mainly rural women, girls and other vulnerable persons to participate meaningfully in socio-economic, legal, cultural and political challenges their communities are confronted with in order to improve living standards in rural communities specifically for women.

To this end, KWID follows a holistic approach that tries to address interdependent issues such as ill-health, gender-based violence, poverty, poor quality education, unemployment as well as affordable and environmentally sustainable access to water and energy.

Contact details:
Coordination office: plot 110 Kabale Mbarara Road, P.O. Box 894 Kabale | Site Office: Kyabuhangwa Kamwezi in Rukiga District
kwid1996@gmail.com/ info@kwidug.org
+256758670041
www.kwidug.org
Florence Tumuheirwe | Telephone: +256758670041 | Email: ftumuheirwe1@gmail.com | florence@kwidug.org

Slum Aid Project is a Non-Government organization registered under the Non Government registration statute 1989 (Registration S 5914/954 number 767).

With antecedents of 4 young University students studying at Makerere University in 1991, Slum Aid Project started in the slums of Katanga. SAP was later registered as an NGO in 1993.

These young women were over taken by the immense vulnerability of Women and their children in the Katanga Slum which is adjacent to Makerere University in Uganda. These were; Dona Asiimwe, Rose Gawaya, Valentine Namakula and Betty Nalukenge. Slum Aid Project (SAP) has since inception prioritized efforts to end poverty, reduce inequality, provide healthcare and education to all, stop violence against women and girls, tackle climate change and much more to the vulnerable Women, handle reproductive health especially HIV/AIDS, Children and the Youths.

This is done through Capacity building, SAP has trained several women, youth, police, and men to no and respond to violence against women and girls. Various community-based organizations have been created, leadership mainly for youth and women was developed at the local government level.

SAP has provided support services for thousands of women and children experience gender based violence. SAP has combined direct and indirect services to Women/Girls, children and others; capacity building and support, public outreach, legal research, analysis and policy advocacy with government and the international community to improve the lives of women/girls.

We believe in a gender holistic empowerment approach that enables women/girls and children to overcome not only the political, economic and social marginalization but also promotes a positive change in their attitudes, behaviors and practices that limit their internal abilities to meaningfully participate in all development processes at household and community level.

Contact details:
P.O Box 10388, | Plot 951 & 668, Nateete Wakaliga Road, Kampala, Uganda
info@slumaidproject.org | slumaidproject@gmail.com
0414270537
www.slumaidproject.org
Agnes Kabanda Kyambadde, | Tel: 0772506680

Top Mothers Initiative (TOMI) is a women organization in Uganda. The organization was established in 2019 and registered with the National Bureau for Non-Governmental Organizations under the Non-Governmental Organizations Act, 2016 and the registration number is 3364.

The organization has the legal mandate to carry out all activities in line with the provisions of its constitution.

What gave birth to this organization was a nasty incident involving a single mother who was gang raped by a group of criminals and the mother was rescued by the directors to this organization in February 2019.

The single mother was working with an eating place in Kisenyi, a Kampala suburb and it was her routine to report to job very early in the morning to prepare for customers who always demanded for food starting at around 6:30am.

It was necessary therefore, that the single mother of 2 children, a girl of about three and a half years, whom she carried at her back and a boy, about 5 years who she held by the hand and walked from Namungona, also a Kampala suburb located about eight kilometers from her place of work; sets off for the journey to work early enough at around 4:30am.

This fateful day, the single mother bumped into a gang of criminals as she took a short cut to her place of work, who first demanded for money from her and later ordered her to undress and she was raped before her children. The rescue comes in after she had taken a share of them and others were on the wait for their turn. Following this experience, and coupled with a lot of other experiences of bad treatment of such mothers in different communities, for example molestation of those working in offices as cleaners, failure to access certain opportunities for not positively responding to sexual advances from men, belittling them in communities, framing them with all sorts of negative statements; which makes them so low, loose hope and self esteem.

This in turn exposes such women to grave risks in a bid to make their ends meet. They are synonymous with such things like, sex for money, street begging, hard labor, and their children miss out on many opportunities in terms of education and health.

The directors therefore, took a resolve to form an organization to mobilize communities on the plight of single mothers. The organization conducts activities that are aimed at ensuring improved welfare for the lives of single mother and her family members.

Top Mothers initiative comes up with programs that are designed to provide solutions to the challenges faced by single motherhood, with emphasis on empowerment, to be able to live a decent and meaningful life while supporting their families and children to turn into responsible adults and educated.

Contact details:
Plot 896, Makerere Kavule, Bombo Road, C/O P.O BOX 34913, Kampala – Uganda.

Basoita Julius Mulumba Mobile Contact: +256 751 84119/+256 773 845191 Email address. jjmulumba@gmail.com

Warm Hearts Foundation is a young women led non-for-profit organization whose main aim is to eradicate Gender Based Violence and bring an end to Child abuse through intergenerational empowerment.

Contact details:
PO. BOX 109512 Kasambya, Busabala Road

+256 704 237170
www.warmheartsuganda.org