Posts by Food Rights Alliance
Call for Proposals: Consultancy to Conduct End of Program Evaluation
For the last 5 years, FRA has been implementing a program campaign on enhancing the resilience of women to shocks of exclusion and traumatic stressors of poverty, hunger and malnutrition. To enhance learning, FRA wishes to contract a qualified consultant to conduct an End of Program Evaluation in the districts of Ngora and Amuria. All…
Read MoreMoLHUD Holds 3RD Joint Sector Review
By Regina Kayoyo This month marked the 3rd Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development’s Joint Sector Annual Review. The two day workshop was organized together with a number of partners including Food Rights Alliance, Oxfam, ESAFF, PELUM, TracFM, the World Bank, and Transparency International among others. This year’s JSR was held under the theme’…
Read MoreCEHURD Commemorates 10 years of Social Justice in Health
By Regina Kayoyo On Thursday 7th November, The Centre for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) celebrated their 10 year anniversary at the Sheraton Hotel in Kampala. CEHURD is a non-profit, research and advocacy organization pioneering the justiciability of the right to health. Ten years ago, CEHURD began with a vision of a health system…
Read MoreEmpowerment of Rural Women – The Key to Prosperity, Equity and Peace
By Freda Laura Orochi It’s that time of the year again when we celebrate the International Day of Rural Women. This day is an occasion to listen to the voices of the rural women and respond to their concerns. The day is celebrated on 15th October and the theme of this year’s celebration is “Sustainable…
Read MoreHas “This Plot Not For Sale” Become Another Measure of Tenure Security in Uganda?
By Jude Ssebuliba From bushes, banana plantations to land in towns, the phrase “This Land is Not For Sale” is becoming so common that one might mistake it to be a nationally accepted land tenure security mechanism. The words in it are much to inform the unwary as they are to deter the conmen, who…
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