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Empowerment Through the Green Jobs Project: Olive Karungi’s Transformation
In the picturesque region of Fort Portal, nestled within the community of Nyankwazi Bwanika, lives Olive Karungi, a widow and mother of three. Olive is a testament to the transformative power of the Green Jobs Project implemented by Reproductive Health Uganda in partnership with WWF. This initiative aims to create and scale green jobs by applying a nature-based solution approach at a landscape level while using Gender Transformative Approach (GTA) as an entry point.
Olive’s journey began when she joined the Kichwamba Youth Vegetable Growers group, a community conservation group supported by Green Jobs project. One of the most profound impacts of the Green Jobs Project has been its role in reducing gender-based violence (GBV) within the community.
“The greatest contributors to GBV are poverty, lack of food, lack of water and making decisions between couples” Olive explains. “Women and girls were often forced to travel long distances to fetch water, exposing them to the risk of sexual exploitation and gender-based violence (SGBV).”
The community groups formed under the project have become safe spaces where members can address GBV issues within families through SRHR community dialogues. These groups have also played a crucial role in demystifying gender roles in the community. Women are now able to make decisions, especially financial ones, which were previously a domain dominated by men.
Through her group, Olive gained essential skills in sustainable agriculture and water management. “We have learned how to grow our own food and effectively store water using tanks built with skills acquired under the project,” Olive shares enthusiastically. This knowledge has been a cornerstone in fostering self-sufficiency and resilience among the community members, particularly in the face of climate-induced adversities.
Olive’s story is one of hope and transformation. The ripple effect of Green Jobs Project has led to improved living standards and enhanced safety for the people of Bwanika.
“This project has brought us together and given us the skills to make our health better. We are now more resilient, more united, and more hopeful for the future,” says Olive.
Through the Green Jobs Project, Reproductive Health Uganda has demonstrated that addressing climate change using GTA can have far-reaching benefits, extending beyond environmental sustainability to encompass social and economic well-being. Olive Karungi’s story, is a powerful reminder of the positive change that can arise when communities are empowered with GTA knowledge and skills to adapt and thrive.
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RHU Performance-DHIS2 Annual Statistics
RHU performance 2016 – 2022
(DHIS2 Annual Service Statistics)
Over 2022, RHU delivered a total of 3,446,839 services, including 1,570,040 services to young people. 1,239,203 family planning services and 539,509 HIV services were offered over the same period.
OUR SERVICE PACKAGE:
Youth Services
- Information & counseling on STIs/HIV/AIDS; safe sex, sexuality & relationship, and reproductive health
- Contraceptive services, especially dual methods, emergency contraception
- Diagnosis and management of STIs
- HIV Counseling and Testing services
- Pregnancy testing, goal oriented antenatal care and post natal care
- Post Abortion Care
- Screening for cancer of the cervix and Breast cancer examination
- Sexual Gender Based Violence information and services
- Creating link to opportunities for economic, educational and active citizenship.
- Youth friendly centers for SRH information and services, carrier guidance and recreation
- Emergency Contraception
- Menstruation management
HIV /AIDS Services
- Information and counseling on HIV/AIDS, STIs
- Positive prevention
- HIV Counseling & Testing
- HIV stigma, denial and discrimination and mitigation approaches
- Management of STIs and PIDs
- Safe Male circumcision
- Management of Opportunistic Infections
- Prevention of Mother To Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT)
- Home Based Care through referral and partnerships to be implemented in the last 5-years
- Effective Referrals
Family Planning Services
- Couple Counseling
- Preconception care and counseling
- Client History (Health and Medical)
- Insertion and Removal
- Infertility Management
- Method effectiveness Management
- Pregnancy Planning
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
Contraceptive Options
- Condom Use
- Emergency Contraception
- Implants
- Injectables
- IUD
- Lactational Amenorrhea Method
- Oral Contraceptives
- Standard Days Method
- TwoDay Method
The African Citizens Initiative
Inspiring Individuals to support health programmes for all
The global health funding environment is changing and increasingly competitive. It is moving away from traditional donor funded models.Therefore,in line with the African Union Agenda 2063 commitment to the principal of self –reliance and the Sustainable Development Goals, there is need to diversity funding streams to include locally sourced and sustainable models
To meet this challenge, the International Planned Parenthood Federation Africa Region (IPPFAR) Council launched the African Citizens’ Initiative on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
ACI is a volunteer-led peer-to-peer fundraising programme designed to take advantage of IPPF’s greatest resources-its volunteer members. It seeks to find African Solutions to Africa’s development challenges
The initiative’s overall goal is to motivate, empower and enable IPPFAR’s network of over 39,000 volunteers to take part in a peer-to-peer fundraising programme to raise financial support for reproductive health programmes that assist women, girls and families in vulnerable and undeserved communities
In Uganda RHU has embraced the idea and is committed to mobilizing its extensive network of volunteers and staff in support of the implementation of its Strategic Plan 2016-2022 through the ACI
RHU’s objective is to raise financial contributions totaling Uganda shillings 4.2 billion annually. The target is for each volunteer to recruit five (5) individuals who will each contribute at least Uganda shillings 175,000 annually or Uganda shillings 15,000 per month over five (5) years
For more details and contributions contact us:
P O Box 10746 Kampala,
Plot 2 Katego Road – Tufnell Drive,
Off Kira road Kamwokya, Kampala – Uganda
Tel: +256- (0) 312-207100, +256-(0)414 540658 , Toll free -0800299003
Email: rhu[at]rhu.or.ug
Be a Volunteer
An RHU volunteer is a person that identifies him/herself with the promotion of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights as a basic human right and agrees to commit him/herself to work towards its promotion and enhancement of the Association in general.
RHU has network of over 4000 SRH volunteers across the country. To be part of our network join the African Citizen’s Initiative (ACI) an initiative of IPPFAR whose goal is to to inspire, empower and capacitate the network of volunteers in a peer-to-peer fundraising programme to raise support for health programmes that target women, girls and families in vulnerable, underserved and hard-to-reach communities.
Get in touch. Toll free line: 0800299003
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