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Empower Children & Communities against Abuse (ECCA)

Country

Uganda

Region

Africa

Programme Summary

Empower Children & Communities against Abuse (ECCA) is a non-profit organisation that aims to empower in- and out-of-school children and communities to work together against all forms of gender-based violence. ECCA's primary aim is to promote the proactive participation of men in the design and implementation of gender-based violence prevention projects.

Communication Strategies

ECCA implements its activities under four main programme areas:

  • psychosocial support and counselling
  • social follow-up and referral
  • organisational capacity building/training
  • research and advocacy

ECCA's objective is to build and strengthen the capacity of individuals, communities, and children to address the problem of abuse in Uganda by:


  • initiating the establishment and foundation of modular community, child and women focused institutional governance and capacity building curriculum.
  • organising short training and advocacy workshops, meetings, symposia, seminars where members and others can interact.
  • carrying out research and influencing policy directions regarding the welfare of men, women, children and communities as a whole.
  • advancing the profession of counselling as an essential element of psychosocial intervention in confronting abuse.

Development Issues

Children, Conflict, Gender, HIV/AIDS, Rights, Women, Youth.

Key Points

ECCA was founded in 2002 by a team of human rights activists and child welfare practitioners.

Partners

Uganda Child Rights NGO Network (UCRNN), End Child Prostitution and Trafficking (ECPAT).

Contact

Brenda Kisingiri
Programme Administrator and Child Support Programme Coordinator
P.O. Box 829
Kampala
Uganda

Office: No. 3
Kisozi Complex
Kampala
Counseling Center
Plot 92 William Street
Flat D (next to NCR)
Tel.: +256 (0)41 232 980/+256 (0)77 403364
Fax: +256 (0)41 230 359
eccaaug@hotmail.com / brendakisingiri@yahoo.co.uk

Uganda Child Rights NGO Network (UCRNN), End Child Prostitution and Trafficking (ECPAT).

Source

WOUGNET website. on November 8 2004.


Placed on the Communication Initiative site November 08 2004
Last Updated November 08 2004

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