Service Delivery

The Integrated Facility, Outreach and Community Reproductive Health Services (FOCUS Project) aimed at delivering right based services including for safe abortion and HIV. It was implemented in Kampala, Iganga, Kapchorwa, Mityana, Fort Portal, Luwero, Tororo, Hoima, Lira, Apac, Arua, Kabale, Mbale, Mbarara and Gulu districts.

UNFPA and the Government of Uganda developed the eighth country program of support for the period 2016-2020 and one of the programmes included The Increased National and District local governments’ capacity to increase demand for and supplies of modern contraceptives (8th GOU/UNFPA country programme). The programme was implemented both at national and sub-national levels focusing on the underserved districts with poor Sexual Reproductive Health indicators.

The Global comprehensive Abortion care initiative (GCACI Project) is a restrictive project that aims to increase access to comprehensive abortion care as well as contraceptive services particularly to the poor, marginalized, under-served and most-at-risk women. Specifically, the project will focus on increased awareness on effects of unsafe abortion, increased access to treatment for incomplete abortion services, increased uptake of post-abortion contraception and increased access to family planning services. It started in February 2019 in RHU sites in Apac, Gulu, Lira, Moyo, Arua, Kapchorwa, Iganga, Bwaise and Bushenyi.

The She Decides Project with a duration of three years seeks to Improve SRHR of poor, socially-excluded and under-served people, especially women, girls and youth. It runs from February 2018 to may 2020. It is implemented in RHU Mbale, Hoima, Fort Portal, Katego, Bwaise, Bushenyi, Mbarara, Mityana, and 12 franchise clinics in Mbarara, Bushenyi, Kampala, Mityana, Luwero, Fort Portal districts and five universities, which include Makerere, Kyambogo, Ndegye, KIU -Western, Mbarara universities.

The Breaking the Barriers to Access to SRH services (BBA) project is a 3year (2017 to 2020) project funded by Bergstrom Foundation. It aims at delivery of 3 million quality rights based integrated SRHR services through partnerships with public and private sector and 35 million quality integrated SRHR services. It ensures improved SRHR of women, men, and girls in Eastern Uganda by increasing access to contraception and other SRH services.

The Strengthening Education and Training in Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights in Uganda (SET- SRHR) is a four year project implemented under the umbrella of ‘Utafiti na Kuntenda’ – a Swahili phrase meaning ‘Research-Community of Practice (CoP)’. SET- SRHR is a project partly implemented by Reproductive Health Uganda (RHU) in partnership with Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) and Nsamizi Training Institute of Social Development (NTISD), and also in collaboration with the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University and Rutgers International in the Netherlands.

The SRHR Umbrella Grant exists because more Ugandan people should be able to enjoy their sexual and reproductive health and rights. Everyone has the right to sexual and reproductive health. But not everyone realises they have this right. We know that local organisations that are based in the community are often best placed to reach marginalised populations who do not realise their rights. 

That’s why our SRHR Umbrella Grant in Uganda focuses on supporting non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and community-based organisations (CBOs) to deliver quality services, rather than trying to make change from the top.

The project is designed to strengthen the responsiveness and accountability of local government officials to citizens and ultimately to improve the quality of local public services like education and health care. Project started on 1st January  2019 in Kampala due to the resource mobilization available.

Poor WASH and IPC lead to health acquired infections, transmission of diseases from health facilities to communities and increased use of antibiotics and exacerbate outbreak and spread of infections- in this case- COVID- 19. On the contrary, effective IPC reduces hospital-acquired infections by at least 30% (WHO 2016). Therefore the Emergency COVID-19 wash response is set to enforce the project between April-July 2020 in all public gathering areas.

Uganda has been a fast growing economy for the past three decades, with an increasingly large middle-class . Uganda’s formal private sector is growing. The growth in the formal sector is marked by a number of challenges – including the lack of well-organised and strong unions. Workers’ rights are therefore far from being fulfilled. Reports show that up to 90% of women experience sexual harassment in the workplace, and there is a lack of protection against sexual offences and compensation and justice for victims. Discrimination in employment based on race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction or social origin, HIV status or disability.