NIWIGAN FOUNDATION
community challenges.
NIFORD believes that children and youth have the right to participate in the processes and decision-making that affects their lives, based upon their evolving capabilities to understand and contribute.
Our approach
Our programs are designed to reflect the key issues affecting children and their well-being.
Early Childhood
(under 6 years)
School Years
(6-12 years)years)
Adolescence
(13 – 24 years)
Help us create more impact.
The impacts of NIFORD’S work are strengthened by simultaneously working at all levels. Using our CCCD approach, NIFORD is able to identify the key initiatives on which to work together with children and young people, communities, and partners on many different levels to address most effectively the structural causes that prevent children from realising their rights.
Our Programs
NIFORD worksinrespect for human rights, particularly the rights of children as provided for in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This is based upon the fact that Uganda as a sovereign state has ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child and has subsequently incorporated children’s rights into the Constitution and national law (the Children Act). These are the programs that help them accomplish their goals;
Secured Infancy
(Early Childhood)
The program ensures that parents / caregivers and the community provide a protective environment for young children to ensure they grow up free from neglect and abuse; that children are born and raised during their first five years in conditions that ensure their survival and optimal physical development.
The Operational stage
(Primary School Years)
The program ensures that children’s rights are respected, protected, and fulfilled at home, in primary schools, and in the community, thereby ensuring that children, including those with disabilities or otherwise vulnerable, are safe from all forms of neglect and abuse.
Skilled Youth
(Adolescence)
The program ensures that adolescents and young people increase their engagement in local development efforts; have access to quality health care and sexual and reproductive health services, and develop life skills equipping them for safe and responsible sexual lives and for adulthood.
