We aim to provide high quality technical support services that meet identified needs, influence decisions in the environments in which Civil Society Organisations operate, and work to ensure that CDRN has the capacity to fulfil its mission.
Our Activities:
Training individuals (staff and Board members) from Civil Society Organisations so that they are more effective in carrying out their duties.
Supporting communities in carrying out Action Research projects around improving their participation as citizens and demanding good governamce and accountability
Supporting District NGO umbrella organisations so that they can more effectively meet the needs of their member organisations
Developing training manuals, policy briefs and other resource materials.
Carrying out research and producing reports
Providing consultancy services
Working with and supporting national and international networks of Civil Society Organisations
Selling books on development, maintaining a Resource Room and hiring out our meeting room.
Our Values We are committed to:
Peace and security: harmonious living-for all.
Social justice : equity in resource distribution and equality before the law.
Gender equality
Life before death: personal and organizational health-in spite of HIV/AIDS.
Sustainable development: advancing practices that lay a solid foundation for the welfare of future generations.
Observance of human rights: promoting and defending the exercise of rights and the performance of obligations.
Principles and Practices
Quality: producing work outputs that make a valuable difference.
Partnership: teamwork, mutual respect and listening to one another.
Learning: reflection on knowledge and experience for continuous innovation.
Participation: applying participatory ethos for a fairer society.
Accountability: taking responsibility and being transparent.
Strategies
Advocacy to promote and defend interests.
Research to create authentic knowledge.
Capacity building to strengthen civil society movements.
Information sharing to influence development practice
Networking with people and organizations for mass activism
Engaging other CSOs to create coalitions advocating issues of democracy, human rights, peace and social justice.
Contributing to movements of special interest/marginalized groups to help bring their issues at the forefront of the development agenda.
Participating in global forums for learning purposes and to develop local solutions to global challenges, and vice-versa.A global approach will also help to share local experiences and uplift international interest in Uganda 's agenda | See Board Members here »
