Hope Foundation

Hope Foundation is a development organization. It’s a non-government, not-for-profit and nonsectarian, non-partisan organization working for social development of vulnerable and less developed people. It’s a human-centered CBO. HF could also be labeled as an implementing organization which designs and implements various developmental projects with the financial and technical support of international donor agencies and the government.

Hope Foundation has a keen focus on the socio-economically disadvantaged groups of women, youth and children and others that require support. Keeping in view the overall socio-cultural fabric of the society and the overall power imbalances and discriminations that exist at all levels; the focus, amongst these groups, is again on most vulnerable and the marginalized ones. HF also focuses on the inclusion of minorities and special groups such as widows, foster parents and children, and young single mothers.

SECTORAL AREAS OF INTERVENTION AND PRIORITY PROGRAMS
Hope Foundationis mandated to various interventions for self-help development and strives to work the bellow areas:

Health- (Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights through Sex Education)
We directly implement activities of SRHR through sex education, we launched this program during the second lockdown and our beneficiaries are the teenagers at schools. When schools resumed, we shifted our activities to schools targeting students and pupils in secondary and primary respectively.

Education

• Functional Adult Literacy
  Under this area, we have a total of 2107 leaners as per the first enrollment, we target category of people who didn’t have a chance to have opportunity for formal education program. We have established 10 learning centers and each having level 1&2.

• Girl Child Education- Girl’s Empowerment
  Through the sex education, we use sports specifically girl’s football for mobilizing the community and providing a platform for us to pass our SRHR information. As well we use it as a way of building talents of girls through football, we offer scholarships to the best players. We have built a team of first and second eleven. We also use sports as a way of engaging girls to avoid them engage in unproductive activities that will influence them engage in sexual relationships.

We also specifically supporting students and pupils in the protection village by paying their school fees and uniform.

Sexual Gender Based Violence
We do SGBV together with SRHR, we identify cases and do referrals and follow-ups with partners that we have referred to, we conduct SGBV awareness in our clubs and community activities of SRHR with adolescents.

Peaceful Co-existence
We are piloting a digital advocacy project aimed at preventing and reducing hate speech and advocating for meaningful participation and engagement of young people. This project entirely focuses on the youth with girls being a priority

Hope Foundation is changing the live of adolescents and the youth in Imvepi Refugee Settlement by advocating for their Sexual Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR), enhancing access to appropriate information on their sexuality through Sex Education. 

We carry out sex education in schools both secondary and primary with the aim of equipping adolescents and youth appropriate information to help them sail through puberty without challenges and teenage pregnancies.

We are breaking new grounds with our innovative approaches on SRHR implementations breaking cultural, religious and cultural/traditional barriers limiting access SRHR services among the youth, adolescents, women and Persons with Disabilities (PSNs).

Our programs are also empowering girls with education scholarships through the Refugee Sports Grant that we have established with UNCHR grant.

We thank our big donor UNHCR for the consistent support.

Hope Foundation Uganda strongly believes in the true and active participation of all key stakeholders – particularly the local communities or program beneficiaries. Fair efforts are taken to ensure that stakeholders participate and contribute at all the stages of the interventions.

As its strategy, Hope Foundation Uganda particularly focuses to ensure the maximum participation of women, children and youth wherever required and relevant – and particularly if the program has any direct or indirect impacts on their lives.

The overall approach of work also identifies the gender sensitivities if any related to the program and strategically addresses the same.

Hope Foundation Uganda, as its overall implementation approach, takes carefully into account the local culture and traditions and fully respects the same.

Following are the key elements of Hope Foundation Uganda Program Strategies & Work Approach

• Thematic Partnerships
• Social Mobilization /Community Participation
• Awareness Raising & Sensitization
• Capacity Building
• Dialogues & Engagements
• Research & Publications
• Networking & Coalition Building
• Advocacy & Lobbying
• Review & Reflection