How we work

Our Strategies

Edutainment
Movement & Alliance Building
Peer Education
Community mobilization & sensitization
Community Based ecological resilience building strategies
Community-Led Dialogue
Research & Documentation
Evidence based Advocacy
Capacity building
Strategic Partnerships, Networking & Collaboration

Edutainment

Through the Edutainment and Informative Performance Arts approach, FIRD empowers the communities to integrate folklores, short skits, participatory theater, poems, dance narratives and flash mobs for community awareness and sensitization through interactive, participatory and fun sessions. This approach provides a safe and supportive environment for children, youth, girls to engage in peace building, advocacy for women and girls rights and climate justice

Movement & Alliance Building

FIRD takes a multi-pronged approach to advance its mission of promoting gender equity in climate justice, economic empowerment, peace building, Education, women and girls rights and health. FIRD has built a grassroot collective momentum, empowered social change agents to engage power holders and the border society to address systematic injustices to achieve greater impact and drive systematic change towards gender equity in conflict and post conflict communities.

Peer Education

We embrace the multiplier effect of increasing information flow from one person to another. FIRD trains peer educators to use Champion of Change (CoC) approach in empowering adolescents and youths on issues of Adolescent and young people’s Sexual reproductive Health and rights. Young people relate better with each other hence they are able to share experiences, hold discussions and debates on thematic topics. The trained peer educators then form Champion of Change (CoC) groups that reach out to other adolescents.

Community Mobilization & Sensitization

Community mobilization and sensitization are approaches that FIRD embraces as we engage with the community. Through this, the communities are able to identify community priorities, resources, needs and solutions in such a way that promotes representative participation, good governance, accountability and peaceful change.

Community-Led Dialogue

Community led dialogue is an interactive participatory communication process of sharing information and one of the approaches that FIRD uses to engage community or groups of people aimed at reaching a common understanding and workable solution. This has always been one of the ways of advocating for Violence free communities in conflict and post conflict communities.

Research & Documentation

FIRD continue to focus on collecting data and facts about the social, economic, political, and human rights issues, around the girls, youth and women in Uganda. FIRD understands the critical importance of collecting data and facts in managing and copying with the changing operating environment and bettering the institutional programming. FIRD continues to collect and compile credible facts; evidences, and success stories that can be showcased and disseminated on different platforms. The data and facts collected and complied rotates around unemployment among the youth, teenage pregnancy, early and forced marriages, human trafficking ,human rights violation, poor health and education, and poverty in Uganda.

Evidence Based Advocacy

FIRD conducts evidence based advocacy to engage duty bearers, policy makers and government to enact, and enforce the implementation of enabling ordinances, bi-laws, laws and policies for youth, girls and women who form the majority of the population in Uganda. FIRD focuses on designing targeted advocacy campaign activities, tools that match the advocacy issues that affect their target beneficiaries through a number of media and public campaigns as deemed fit and lawful in Uganda. FIRD primarily mobilizes community members and utilize its grass-root mechanisms to advocate and influence policy change to enable girls, youth and women to enjoy their rights and build peaceful communities.

Capacity Building

FIRD believes continued improvement as it copies with changing demands and operating environment in Uganda and it continues to train, develop and strengthen the skills of the different civil society actors, local human rights defenders in monitoring, documenting and reporting human rights violations in their communities.

Strategic Partnerships, Networking & Collaboration

FIRD continues to partner, network and collaborate as well as acknowledge the important role and contribution other stake holder’s play in promoting and guaranteeing the human rights and welfare of women, girls, children, youth, men and boys in Northern Uganda.
A lot of success has been registered by FIRD by working with Government ministries, and Local and district government officials, like-minded civil society organizations and association, informal community groups, government ministries and agencies, as well as international and national development partners.

Community Based Ecological Resilience Building Strategies

A climate-resilient community has the knowledge, skills and ability to assess, manage and monitor its risks. We therefore work with the community to promote indigenous resilience education through community local trainings, indigenous interventions, emergency planning, and enhancing indigenous climate smart community risk assessments

Our Approach

Our interventions are designed and guided by the human rights based approach to achieve significant and holistic improved livelihoods through social and economic programmes that help the youth ,girls, women, children elderly, persons living with disabilities and all vulnerable people in the community to engage in decision making process and reach their full potential.

FIRD takes a participatory, rural community-based, and inclusive approach to design community led impactful programmes. Our interventions in the post conflict rural and refugee community settings prioritize inclusive and equitable participations of all vulnerable groups in the community especially women, girls, youth, indigenous communities and we work with them to ensure that their voice and agency is at the center of our interventions as we work together to address the unique challenges faced by rural communities and work towards their comprehensive and sustainable development.

FIRD priorities include; advancing human rights of the most vulnerable through human rights education to enhance knowledge and empower the community to know their rights and responsibilities.