Member Associations

Reproductive Health Uganda (RHU) is an indigenous, voluntary, not-for-profit organisation. The association has long-standing experience and expertise providing integrated comprehensive SRHR information and services which include sexuality education, family planning (FP), HIV prevention, care and treatment, breast and cervical cancer screening, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) management, immunisation, etc.   RHU is proud to be associated with pioneering family planning in Uganda. For more than 60 years RHU has been involved in SRHR service provision and advocacy programmes that have defined the SRHR landscape in the country.   Annually RHU provides more than seven (7) million life-saving, affordable, accessible and quality SRHR information and services to the most vulnerable and underserved communities including young people, refugees, and those in hard to reach areas totalling more than 1.2 million people. RHU implements several programmes in humanitarian settings in up to ten (10) refugee settlements.   This is possible through the 19 RHU owned clinics with youth centres, located in the different regions of the country on top of having a franchise clinics totally 60. And a large service delivery network of about 25 outreach teams and over 6,000 community resource persons, conducting over 1,000 outreaches annually.   Our Vision: A Uganda where everyone’s SRHR are fulfilled and protected without discrimination   Our Mission: To champion, provide and enable universal access to rights based SRHR information and services to vulnerable and underserved communities especially young people   Our Values: Voluntarism; Rights Based, Integrity, Choice and Result Oriented  RHU is held in high repute among partners. RHIU has previously chaired of the Uganda Family Planning Consortium - a platform that brings together more than 15 major family planning partners. We are the current deputy chair of the Coalition to End Maternal Mortality Due to Unsafe Abortion, we sit on many working groups in the ministries of health, gender and education. We lead a number of platforms that bring together different SRHR partners implementing specific advocacy interventions.    

Action Et Développement (AcDev) is a Non Governmental Organisation for Development Support which has been in existence for 31 years. Today, it is recognised as one of the most important Senegalese NGOs with proven expertise and considerable experience in the provision of community health and the creation of demand at the community level. AcDEV is mainly involved in reproductive health in general, the sexual and reproductive health of young people and adolescents, and the fight against gender-based violence in particular. AcDEV operates in nine regions of Senegal with a national headquarters in Dakar, two permanent regional headquarters in Fatick and Louga and focal points in the remaining regions. AcDEV has more than 104 staff spread across its intervention zones. Since its creation, the NGO has built five health centres, two reproductive health centres for young people and adolescents, a vocational training centre for young girls, 55 rural huts and maternity units, and a mobile RH/FP team. The areas of intervention are: strengthening the skills of organisations and actors, advocacy for RH/FP and the SRHR of young people, IEC/BCC, the sustainability of its interventions through the implementation of income-generating activities and the strengthening of women's economic power. AcDEV goals: Improve the living conditions of the target populations through development support activities Assist children and poor populations in general in the areas of nutrition, health care, the fight against STIs/AIDS Implement the means of sensitization, training and action on the mechanisms of “poor development” Promote a partnership with NGOs and national and international institutions while respecting their identity Learn more about AcDEV here. Address 204, Cité Fadia-Guentaba BP: K5049 Pikine Dakar/Senegal +221 33-855 88 55 / 77 569 56 26 [email protected] www.acdev-inter.org