FOKAPAWA’s  BACKGROUND

Forum for Kalongo Parish Women Associations (FOKAPAWA) was founded by grassroots women in Northern Uganda who suffered the impact of the Lord Resistance Army (LRA) war– women whose rights had been violated and those whose children have been forcefully abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). For over 23 years, LRA terrorized the northern region with physical and psychological torture, forcing over 1.6 million Ugandans to leave their ancestral land and relocate into Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camps. This had a profound effect on the culture, education, health, and livelihoods in the region. FOKAPAWA registered with the National Non-Government Organization (NGO) board with Registration No. 5433. Recently, FOKAPAWA updated its credentials in line with a directive from Government of Uganda, with the National Bureau for NGOs of Ministry of Internal Affairs and was assigned No. 697 in the Updated National NGO Register of 13th January 2020. Overall, FOKAPAWA has implemented key development programs in education, health, human rights, Water Sanitation and Hygiene, Peace Building, Economic and Social Empowerment, Psychosocial Support, and Advocacy. Over the years, FOKAPAWA has been able make key achievements over the period of the strategic plan ending. Specifically, FOKAPAWA was able to;

FOKAPAWA’s Objectives:

The broad or operational aims and objectives of the FOKAPAWA shall be to:

1. Advocate for improved governance and accountability in usage of public resources in the communities where we work
2. Mobilize and build capacities of the community to demand for improved service delivery in WASH, Health, Education and Human capital development services in communities where we work
3. Generate knowledge products and evidences to aid her advocacy work for improved service delivery in communities where we work
4. Economically empower the youths and women as a measure to reduce gender-based violence in the communities in communities where we work

FOKAPAWA’s  MILESTONES

1. Mobilized resources to support implementation of strategic plan
2. Built strong collaboration and partnership with stakeholders, such as government authorities, civil society organizations, donors and project beneficiaries.
3. Expansion/scope of work during implementation- Agago, Pader, Kitgum and Lamwo Districts
4. Consortium partnership with other organization to implementing activities
5. Renewal of operation permit for another 5 years from National NGO bureau.

However, some of the key challenges faced during the implementation of the previous strategic plan. Some of these challenges included; Inadequate fund to fully implement some of the activities under the different thematic areas like Livelihood, Health; the demand driven model implementation approach by channeling funds to specific thematic areas of needs; the COVID-19 pandemic which impacted of project implementation; the scope limitation and the high level of competition with other NGOs/INGOs when comes to resource mobilization.

OUR MISSION

“Supporting women and youths through socio economic empowerment programs, capacity development, knowledge generation and advocacy for improved quality of lives in the communities we work in.”

CORE VALUE

As an organization we value the following;