Connecting Voices of Citizens
Project has strengthened the capacities of citizens, change agents and civil society organizations to promote and protect civic spaces and accountable governance targeting Kyenjojo District.
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Connecting Voices of Citizens
Project has strengthened the capacities of citizens, change agents and civil society organizations to promote and protect civic spaces and accountable governance targeting Kyenjojo District.
Learning Assessment
UWEZO Uganda and Twaweza East Africa supported DEFORA to conduct the 2015 annual Learning Assessment in Kyenjojo District. Our findings contributed to the production of UWEZO Annual Learning Assessment Report 2015
Agriculture Club of Marumbu
Agriculture in schools was given as punishment, but DEFORA is changing the misconception! Agriculture Club of Marumbu Primary School in Kihuura Sub County Kyenjojo District poses for a Photo in front of their Maize Garden.
Community-led total sanitation
Community members of rural a Sub County Kyenjojo District participate in the community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) triggering exercise in September, 2014. Latrine coverage was at 45%. After our intervention in only 4 months Open Defecation Free was 95%.
Strengthening Resilience And Economic Empowerment Amongst Adolescent Girls And Women
We train young girls how to make reusable sanitary pads and masks and how to make liquid and bar soap as well as handwash stations.
Menstrual Hygiene Management
Under this project, we carry out Sensitization and community dialogues on Menstrual Hygiene Management and provide sanitary kits to identified schools in Kyegegwa District
Human Rights Advocacy
We have Increased awareness in communities of the area of operation on the child rights promotion and protection which has reduced incidences of child abuse especially in schools of Kyenjojo.
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Access to WASH is central to improving people’s health, productivity, children attending school, improved and improving social and economic wellbeing. However, in rural communities, the population is living without clean water and where it exists, women and children walk along distance to the facilities.
Economic Empowerment
DEFORA has strengthened Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) and built capacity of rural communities targeting in good agronomic practices and post-harvest management. This further addressed challenges of access to investment, technology, quality inputs and integration with markets that the smallholder farmers face.
Gender Equality
Uganda is largely a patriarchal society. Men and boys are superior to girls and women and yet they are entitled to equal rights. There is wide spread acceptability of discrimination against gender and most of communities including the survivors see nothing wrong with it.
