GOH’s strategy under the capacity building core programme area (CPA) is to empower decision-makers, professionals, and beneficiaries, or entire communities in; Research, advocacy and knowledge management, peace and protection, Resilience and sustainable livelihoods (including disaster preparedness and mitigation) and the promotion of strengthened health systems GOH seeks to improve the; Technical, management, governance and learning competences at; individual, organization and institutional level.
To respond to the health needs such as; HIV/AIDs/TB Prevention Care and Treatment, Malaria prevention and treatment, Maternal New Child Health (RMNCH), Malnutrition, WASH, Family Planning and SRHR, GOH plans to expand her interventions with a focus on; a) Increasing protection of; children, adolescent and young women/people and entire community from infection and disease, to ensure their wellbeing and b) Intensifying interventions to address malnutrition among children under five (5) years. GOH uses the following approaches/models; community-facility and counter referral, Citizen Voice and Action (CVA), advocacy, Case Management, Community Lead Total Sanitation and sanitation marketing, Supplementary Feeding (Malnutrition), Young Emanzi Curriculum (FP), stepping stones/ journeys Plus (HIV prevention).
For purposes of managing well all the above CPAs, research and documentation is done so as to come up with up to date relevant information. This exercise creates the basis for building strategic support and lobbying policy makers to review the existing policies. The department also guides GOH to enforce the existing policies and address the gaps.
GOH leverages Advocacy as the process of building support for advocacy issues to create change in attitudes, behaviors, policies, systems, or ways of doing things. GOH uses advocacy to build support for a given issue, or intervention among key audiences and move them to action. In the same vein, GOH promotes Policy advocacy with the aim of informing and influencing decision-makers in support of evidence-based policy change and policy implementation, including resource mobilization.
A number of people in Uganda suffer rights violation, due to practices, attitudes, behaviours; coupled with socio-cultural norms that are harmful and perpetuate injustice and abject poverty. Since inception, protection has been at the core of GOH Vision and Mission. GOH forms partnerships with other stakeholders to design programmes aimed at; offering relief, activism on behalf of the oppressed and marginalized. The focus in this strategy is the elimination of all forms of violations.
The key models/ approaches here include a blend of; CVA/ advocacy, referral pathway, SBCC, letter link communication, Case Management planning, Home visits, Start-Awareness-Support- Action (SASA) and SINOVUYO.
Where We Work
Goals of Hope is currently operating in the Central region (Wakiso, Kampala, Kassanda/Mubende and Mpigi districts), Western region (Kyegegwa district), East-central (Kamuli and Buyende districts), and in the Eastern region (Soroti, Mbale and Serere districts) of Uganda.
