The Community Partners in Northern Uganda are primarily grassroots women’s peace activist groups. The groups help sponsor the Grassroots Women’s Peace Conference, review potential community engaged research proposals, and collaborate around advocacy for girls and women.
Mrs. Mary Akwiya Anecho
Dr. Tenywa Aloysius Malagala (Director)
The Institute of Peace and Strategic Studies is a leading centre for academic and practical excellence in peace, legal and strategic studies in Northern Uganda. Its mission is to provide excellent quality research, training and dissemination that promotes academic and practical growth in peace, migration and strategic studies through professionalism and sustainable response to social-community conflicts.
Gladys Faddy Akello
Catherine Awor
Lango Women Peace and Development Champions are engaged in the following areas, among others:
Ataa Jesca E
Nakere Rural women’s Activists (NARWOA) is an umbrella of indigenous women based organizations focusing on leading women based advocacy on human rights and good governance, livelihoods, health and nutrition, conflict transformation and key gender concerns. Its general objectives include:
Atibuni Rose
Rosalba Oywa
People’s Voice for Peace (PVP) is a non-partisan, non-profit, locally initiated Peace initiative formed by concerned women in Northern Uganda. Its mandate is to work in the field of conflict resolution, economic development, human rights, research, and documentation, and with the Gulu local government. Its mission is to give voice to the voiceless and provide social, economic, and psychological support to severely traumatized men, women, and youth of Acholi to become psychologically and physically healed and to be able to initiate and sustain their livelihoods.
Sr. Rosemary Nyirumbe
St. Monica’s Girls Tailoring School provides vocational education to girls and women in the areas of tailoring, hairdressing, and culinary and hospitality to prepare them to be self-sufficient. St. Monica’s School of Basic Learning for Women provides basic literacy, numeracy, and English instruction for women who lost educational opportunities due to conflict or who wish to learn English because they are refugees.
Alupo Engole Cecilia
Teso Women Peace Activists (TEWPA) is a registered Indigenous Organization that was founded in 2001 to respond to the challenges of unrest from armed conflicts in Teso. These armed conflicts brought untold suffering, diseases, and trauma through the violation of women and girl child dignity. TEWPA builds capacity of rural women in conflict resolution and transformation processes, economic empowerment, and stimulates dialogue through active involvement and participation of women, youth, men and selected strategic stakeholders and advocacy for sustainable peace. TEWPA envisions an environment in which both men and women fully participate in enabling a peaceful co-existence in Teso-Karamoja and the mission is to strengthen Teso women / girl child capacities to access and demand services through capacity building, lobbying, and advocacy research and information sharing. The thematic areas for the group are human rights promotion and protection, economic empowerment, and conflict resolution and transformation.
