Strategic programs & focus areas

Our five focus areas

We are a focused organization. We do five things, and we do them deeply: livelihood and vocational skills; health including menstrual health and SRHR; education; protection and transformation of harmful norms; and climate resilience.

In detail

Key areas & intended results, by program

Programs in pictures

Real sessions, real communities

District officials and ACT Uganda staff at the launch of the 'How to Stay Young and Healthy' adolescent SRHR handbook
Launch of "How to Stay Young and Healthy" — the ACT Uganda adolescent SRHR handbook
A large group of schoolgirls and boys holding copies of the ACT Uganda SRHR handbook outside their school
Students receiving the SRHR handbook, Girls' Education Program
A facilitator reviewing the SRHR handbook together with a small group of students
SRHR peer-education session
Children and community members holding handmade signs reading Action for Violence Against Women at an awareness event
Community awareness event, Child Marriage Prevention Program
A VSLA group's savings and small goods laid out during a market day
VSLA market day, Economic Empowerment Program
A young woman receiving hairdressing training with hair rollers as part of a vocational skills program
Hairdressing vocational training, Economic Empowerment Program

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