ACORD-U CD interacting with one of the SHGs during their cottage industry training in soap making
STATUS
Activity Under Implementation
PROJECT/ACTIVITY DATASHEET
Project Name:
Scaling up child protection through empowerment of marginalized women in Northern Uganda, by 2025
Geographic Location(s)
Omoro District, Northern Uganda
Implementation Status:
Started on 1st April 2017, Implementation on-going
Development Partner
Kindernothilfe (KNH)
Implementation Partner(s)
None
Project Brief
The project contributes to sustainable empowerment of women and children in Omoro District, Northern Uganda using a Self-help Group (SHG) Approach. Targeting rural women (poorest of the poor), the project holistically, economically, socially and politically empowers women & children to effectively participate in decision making processes in their communities. Specifically, the project enhances the livelihoods of poor women/caregivers in order to realize holistic child friendly homes and communities. Additionally, the project, strengthens SHGs at the grassroots to create, demand, participate in and influence decision making process on matters that concern them. |
Some of the interventions promoted by the project include: Formation of Self-help groups, Community level Associations and Community Umbrella organizations; Needs based trainings of SHGs; Business trainings as well as training of Community Level Associations in case management and other aspects among others.
Key Approaches
- Capacity building and empowerment of community structures like women groups, CLAs, children, and local leaders to learn and appreciate the SHG concept.
- Routine documentation of the implementation process.
- Partnership framework that emphasizes implementation in alliance with a number of stakeholders and actors like sub-county leaders, cultural leaders, SHGs, CFs and households.