Today, the Uganda national NGO forum organized a breakfast meeting in Kampala in partnership with CARE Uganda to discuss the theme: re-imagining Quality Assurance Mechanism (QuAM). The meeting aimed to address the emerging opportunities and challenges of QuAM in development and humanitarian efforts, particularly the shift from international organizations (INGOs) dominating the system to local actors taking the lead.

Under the Development Initiative for Northern Uganda (DINU), a Government of Uganda programme supported by the EU and supervised by OPM, Care Denmark received a grant in 2020 to implement a project, “Inclusive Market-based Development for Smallholder Farmers in Northern Uganda.”

CARE International in Uganda has received instruments of power as the coordinating agency of the Charter for Change (C4C) Working Group in Uganda. Michael Tugyetwena, CARE’s Operations Director received the instruments from Henry Muyanja, the Executive Director Street Child, (the outgoing coordinating agency) in a modest coordination role handover event held at CARE Head Office in Kampala on January 11th, 2022.

CARE International in Uganda in partnership with Innovation Norway and DANIDA recently launched a plastic recycling plant and three community solar kitchens expected to serve about 50 households per village in Kyangwali refugee settlement in Kikuube District. The kitchens installed at the different women’s safe spaces will reduce both deforestation and female exposure to gender-based violence experienced during collection of firewood.

A partnership between the PepsiCo Foundation – the philanthropic arm of one of the world’s leading food and beverage companies, and CARE – a global humanitarian organisation, has improved the food and nutrition security of thousands of poor, rural households in Kyenjojo and Kyegegwa districts in Uganda.

Margaret’s story and several others were shared with the CARE International in Uganda Country Director, Apollo Gabazira during a three-day visit to the DINU programme sites in Karamoja and Acholi sub-regions

In response to the changing contextual issues around the COVID-19 pandemic, CARE International in Uganda’s Women Adolescents and Youth (WAY) rights empowerment programme with funding from UNFPA developed key strategies to support field programming.

Many businesses, large and small, have a huge source of great ideas that can help them improve, innovate, and grow, and yet so many of these companies never think of using this amazing corporate asset. What is this highly valuable asset? Its own people.

A collection of stories featuring Ugandan women in celebration of International Women’s Day 2021

16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence 2020 with the theme: “Orange the World: Fund, Respond, Prevent, Collect!”