INTEGRATED WOMEN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

'Empowering Rural Communities'

Sunday, November 21, 2010

A poorly constructed pit latrine at Kisangi Primary School

INTERGRATED WOMEN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: Fort Portal, Western, Uganda; Integrated Women Development Program (IWDP) is a registered,Non Governmental and Non profit making Organization founded in 1996 by women social workers of Kabarole District. IWDP was founded with an aim of advocating for human rights more especially children and women in rural areas for the purpose of improving the quality of life and foster self-reliance and sustainable development.IWDP is partnering with HIVOS and the Norwegian Human Rights Fund (NHRF) in human rights activities and with National Endowment for Democracy (NED) to promote public accountability and transparency initiatives with HOPEHIV in HIV &AIDS. We have partnered WITH Rwenzori Forum for Peace and Justice in the area of peace building and Association of Human Rights Organizations (AHURIO) human rights ISSUES. In 2009, a consortium of 4 organizations;KALI, Good Hope, RICNET and IWDP developed partnership with European Union through Hivos to implement a project ‘Enhancing Civic Competence to Influence Local Government Planning and Feed Back Processes in the Rwenzori region’. IWDP now is operating in 11 sub counties in Kyenjojo and Kabarole districts.