To empower local community to respect, protect and promote fundamental human rights through Lobbying, advocacy, research and capacity building

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Food Security

Africa is especially vulnerable to food insecurity given the region’s high dependence on rain-fed agriculture and the frequency of extreme weather events, high rates of poverty, widespread conflict, and lack of...

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Environment Protection

Environmental protection is a practice of protecting the environment, on individual, organizational or governmental level, for the benefit of the natural environment and (or) humans. Due to the pressures of...

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Governance & Human Rights

Good governance and the advancement of human rights go hand in hand. Good governance and human rights are mutually reinforcing. Human rights principles
provide a set of values to guide the work of Governments...

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Peace Education

Peace education may be defined as the process of acquiring the values, the knowledge and developing the attitudes, skills, and behaviors to live in harmony with oneself, with others, and with the natural environment...

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Sexual & Reproductive Health Rights

Sexual and reproductive health rights are important for everyone. Men and boys often suffer from lack of sexual and reproductive rights through inadquate access to information,services and care, but women and young...

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Child Protection

Child protection is used to describe a set of services designed to protect children and young people who are underage and to encourage family stability. These typically include foster care, adoption services,...

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HIV/Aids

Uganda is often held up as a model for Africa in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Strong government leadership, broad-based partnerships and effective public education campaigns all contributed to a decline in the...

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Gender based Violence

Violence against women refers to violent acts that are primarily or exclusively committed against women. Similar to a hate crime, this type of violence targets a specific group with the victim's gender as a primary...

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VISION & GOAL

MISSION STATEMENT

GOVERNANCE
Vision: Having an empowered and trained community that responds to their social and economic needs independently.  
Goal: Raising Human Rights Awareness.		 To improve the quality and standard of living of rural communities through research, advocacy and capacity building FIRD has a Board of Directors (BOD), which is the top policy making body, comprising of 9 members (3 women and 6 men). The organization has an established secretariat with 4 full time qualified professional staff and some local and international volunteers.
FIRD carries out programs in areas of environmental protection, food security,governance & human rights, peace education and sexual & reproductive health rights which includes child protection, gender based violence and HIV/AIDS.