PROJECTS

WHO WE ARE

RICE-WN is a local NGO working in west Nile sub region of Uganda. RICE-WN is well known as an empowerment organization, peace building organization, health organization, capacity building organization and a community based organization. RICE-WN stands out of all other organizations for her unique way of doing things especially the family spirit, the transparency and accountability, capacity building and open opportunity to all.

Our History

RICE-WN started in 2004 and got registered in 2005 as a local community based organization. Right from her formation RICE-WN was built on three key words namely empowerment, rural development and community focused. This is deliberate focus on neglected communities to enable them grow out of poverty and indifference. RICE-WN was formed because a group of students started reflecting on the question that communities used to ask them whenever they came for holidays and the question was “what have you brought for us?” the five students recognized their obligation to give back to the communities what they have learnt giving rise to ideas of empowerment, rural development and community focus. RICE-WN started getting funds in 2007 and the level of funding has been increasing since then to date. The number of staff now reached nineteen. They are all committed group of people running the four projects. The needs in the communities is still great but the resources are limited. That is why members still have much work to do as far as contributions and resource mobilization is concerned.

Our current work

We are currently Empowering the communities through four main projects:

1. Community Empowerment programme. This project is ponsored by SNV (Neitherlands Development Organisaton). The project focuses on improving the performance of the pupils, increasing parents participation in the education of their children, establishing school gardens to lead to school feeding programme, and to address dropout and sanitation problems.

2. Harnessing the potential of oil and gas to contribute to peace and development in uganda. It is implemented in partnership with International Alert. This project covers west nile region and is there to bridge the inforamtion gap between the government, oil companies and the oil hosting communities with a focus on averting conflicts in the oil rich areas.

3. Economic empowerment of women. This project is implemented in partnership with international Alert. It focuses on empowering small scale crossborder traders between uganda and democratic republic of Congo. The project aims at bringing peace, building the capacity throgh trainings and awareness raising. This project deals with women trader associations along the border of congo and Uganda.

4. Strenthening Civil society for Improved HIV/AIDS and OVC service delivery in uganda (SCIPHA).

This project is implemented in partnership with Uganda Health Marketing Group (UHMG) and Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRC) funded by Civil Society Fund (CSF). This project aims at preventing HIV/AIDS among the mos tat risk populations (MARPS) or Key populations. These include long distance truck drivers, commercial sex workers, the youth in and out of school, infants of HIV/AIDS positive mothers, finishing communities and hard to reach communities. It involves HIV counseling and testing, sensitisation and referals.

There are other partnerships such as maintenance of anti-malarial drains in Arua municipal council. This involves routine maintenance of drainage channels to make sure they are not breeding ground for mosquitos.

There are other sporadic short partnerships that are unforeseen and they come from friends who want to do things together with RICE-WN.

Our future

Our future plans include: establishing field offices in Moyo and Nebbi districts, building a permanent head quarter for RICE-WN, strengthening all the programmes through funding, increasing networking both nationally and internationally, improving staff welfare through motivation and remunerations, strengthening the volunteer/student and graduate experience programme.

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ONGOING PROJECTS

FINISHED PROJECTS