DanChurchAid Uganda

DCA Uganda works with three programs: Save Lives, Build Resilient Communities, and Fight Extreme Inequality. With a particular focus on youth, women, people affected by displacement, and marginalized groups. The Save Lives program supports refugees, displaced persons, and refugee hosting communities to access basic life-saving and socio-economic services for self-reliance, sustainable livelihoods, and fulfillment of their rights. Interventions fall within the humanitarian-development-peace nexus and include disaster preparation and response through early warning and early action, multi-purpose cash transfers, village savings and loans associations (VSLAs), income-generating activities, agricultural produce, access to markets, access to clean and affordable cooking energy as well as environmental conservation and restoration. DCA Uganda’s Build Resilient Communities program supports social, economic, and environmental resilience building (sustainable livelihoods). This includes ensuring that marginalized communities have secure access to land, are producing adequate food for their household consumptions and income, and have access to vocational and entrepreneurial skill training, to increase their income. This area also supports communities to increase their resilience to conflict as well as environmental and climate change challenges. Under the Fight Extreme Inequality program, DCA Uganda works with partners to ensure that more women and youth participate in decision-making processes and hold their leaders accountable for improved delivery of services and that there is increased protection of human rights for equitable development. To achieve this, DCA supports advocacy at all levels and aims to enhance the capacity of communities in social accountability.