Women and Girls Rights Advocacy Uganda

Women and Girls Rights Advocacy Uganda WAGRAU is a human rights organization that works to ensure respect, promotion and protection of women’s rights and dignity.

WOMEN AND GIRLS' RIGHTS ADVOCACY UGANDA (WAGRAU)
For Justice and Humanity, We Stand
Women and Girls Rights Advocacy Uganda (WAGRAU is a human rights organization that works to ensure respect for and promotion and protection of women’s rights and dignity. Established in 2016, WAGRAU works toward ensuring inclusive and gender-sensitive governance that is informed by the principles of natural justice

and the rule of law. We believe that free and equal enjoyment of these rights is a salient feature of democracy that goes to the core of good, transparent, and inclusive governance yielding sustainable development and accountability for the benefit of all Ugandans. Recognizing that real change comes from the power generated by people, WAGRAU enables Ugandans to access social justice by providing them with relevant information creating platforms for them to engage in dialogues that inform policy and law-making processes with sensitivity to female gender-specific issues. And in the case of a violation and/or abuse, WAGRAU strives to provide access to justice and legal representation. Our mission is to promote respect of human rights through advocacy, legal representation, community education, strategic partnership, and constructive engagement of duty owners as well as bearers. WAGRAU envisions a Uganda in which every human being is regarded with compassion, respect, and dignity. We value equality, compassion, transparency, and professionalism. Objectives Are To:
• Promote citizen awareness of basic human rights and duties as guaranteed in the 1995 constitution of the Republic of Uganda and the international human rights convention.
• Promote good democratic governance and respect for the rule of law and human rights
• Provide accesses to justices through legal aid services
• Undertake research, monitoring, and documentation of human rights protections, violation, and promotion in Uganda
Area(s) of Work
• Civic empowerment and capacity building
• Advocacy
• Mediation, negotiations, and arbitration
• Legal consultations and representation
• Research

CONTACT
Mobile: 0414-252397/599681
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://wagrau.org

06/05/2026

Internal program evaluation and planing!!

This past week we got invited by the Leadership of Serere District Head Anglican Church (St.Mark) for a meeting in which...
03/05/2026

This past week we got invited by the Leadership of Serere District Head Anglican Church (St.Mark) for a meeting in which they offered to partner with us to reach believers in the several other branches on several Challenges faced by the local community such as Domestic Violence, inheritance and succession, marriage and the law among others.

Having attended one of our community stakeholders meeting, the Archdeacon was impressed with our work that he deemed it necessary to bring it into church in a formal arrangement. We shall be speaking in 103 churches a cross the district continuously. We don’t take this opportunity lightly because it is a stepping stone to reach the community as well as influence their views on Women’s and Girls Rights-Religious Leaders influence the opinions,values and ways of life in the community and to have their approval of our work indirectly validates our message whether it is on GBV, Child Marriage, Economic Empowerment of Women, women inheritance and property ownership, Femicide, etc.

As a predominantly Christian Community, this gives us the opportunity to reach more people who may probably never get to come to our community meetings-so we welcome this partnership and Today we had our very first session in which we spoke in two different masses-the English one that targets teenagers and young Adults in which we talked about revenge domestic violence that I on a raise in the community. In the next local Language mass we still addressed domestic violence but with a focus on marital domestic violence.

The reactions from the Audience was overwhelmingly great and we hope to have a field Monday tomorrow as we will be addressing inquiries from Church members that we referred to us😁

We hope to reach out to other religious denominations within our community seeking a similar opportunity.

Thank St.Mark for giving us this stepping stone that will spread our message which “Equality and Justice for all”

Our earlier post seems to have timed out before uploading due to poor internet connection but non the less, we would lov...
01/05/2026

Our earlier post seems to have timed out before uploading due to poor internet connection but non the less, we would love to celebrate Rural women on this labour day and every other day.

They carry the heaviest burden of labour working tirelessly to sustain the world yet too often they remain excluded from adequate and fair compensation, ownership, access and control of the fruits of their labour.

True respect of labour means more than spoken words of praise-True recognition demands for transformation of systems so that rural women are not just workers but rightful stakeholders- It means ensuring equal access to Land, fair distribution of yields,inclusion in decision making when selling house hold yields-access to,control and ownership of production resources which in rural communities is Land!

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𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐮𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝟑.𝟓𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬-𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭...
30/04/2026

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐮𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝟑.𝟓𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬-𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫.

Christine here and 11 other women have been apart of our economic empowerment program for 2years(this year being their 3rd). Last year, she and one of her group member invested their earnings from the group farming, savings and animal keeping into buying each one bull as a business venture. They also jointly bought a ploughing hoe and this year, they have been able to provide ploughing services within their community-the result of which is this white cow. She is slowly but steadily building her assets with the goal of being able to buy her own land in future and use that land for business farming.

She hopes to get to a point where she owns about 5acres of land that she and her older Children will cultivate food that they sell to educate her younger kids as well as sustain her whole family for generations to come.

These two warriors are our heroes of the month. They belong to one of our economic empowerment groups but together with ...
25/04/2026

These two warriors are our heroes of the month. They belong to one of our economic empowerment groups but together with their colleagues are champions against Domestic Violence. Friday night/Saturday morning at around 1am a victim of domestic violence ran to the house of the lady in green(The chair person of the group) to seek help. Together with her husband who is on the LC1 committee of their village-they have let the Victim sleep in their house. Very early in the morning she notified asking for a proper rescue and legal aid support starting with reporting the matter to Police.

Turns out that Saturday morning,they had planned as a group to go w**d their gnuts. They decided to take the Victim with them and as you can see here, the Chairperson and treasurer armed themselves with pangas. They feared that the perpetrator who is a known alchemist would either attack the victim if left at home alone waiting for Wagrau’s team or he may Dare to go confront 12women-“If he makes a mistake of coming after us in our garden, we will see if he has strength to over come 12women…” guess the perpetrator/suspect knew better not to come or even stay in his home. He got notified that “Wagrau women” and part of the Victim now!

Sundays are for savings and we do love to join in and observe, learn, unlearn and relearn. However, saving is only possi...
20/04/2026

Sundays are for savings and we do love to join in and observe, learn, unlearn and relearn. However, saving is only possible if someone has a means of earning and we made it our priority to first empower the women to earn then teach them how to save

𝐏𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐈𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞-𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥At its core, poverty is not only about how much money a family earns,...
11/04/2026

𝐏𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐈𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞-𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥

At its core, poverty is not only about how much money a family earns, but also about who controls that money.
When those who are most invested in the well-being of the household-women/mothers-lack control over resources, the entire system becomes inefficient.Needs go unmet, opportunities are lost, and cycles of deprivation continue.

𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐝?

At Wagrau, we’ve seen what’s possible when women are given control over production resources.
The transformation is not theoretical-it’s measurable, visible, and deeply human.

It is going from earning and owning nothing to owning your very own 2cows or your own herd of 10sheep or a piggery business which has bought you 3cows, renting land to do agro-business which has now enabled you as a widow to send your last born Child to university to pursue a diploma of orthopedic medicine having failed to educate 4 of her older siblings.

Guess what though? all of these achievements were as a result of having control of the yields from their labour in a period of just 2years of farming under our Economic Empowerment Program.

Now, think of women who have spent 20,30 and even 40 years cultivating land-not for themselves, but within systems that denied them ownership. What if all those years of labor had translated into assets, savings, and investment?

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧?

The implications are enormous. Entire communities could shift. Poverty would not just be reduced-it could be systematically dismantled.

At Wagrau, we prioritize consistent follow-ups and checks on victims of violence because we believe this helps prevent r...
09/04/2026

At Wagrau, we prioritize consistent follow-ups and checks on victims of violence because we believe this helps prevent reoccurrence. Our continued presence serves as a strong warning to perpetrators that their actions are being monitored, while also reassuring survivors and those supporting their recovery that they are not alone. At the same time, these engagements provide valuable learning opportunities for our community advocates and local leaders, who play a central role in our case management and the broader fight against domestic violence.

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲.When we advocate for menstrual health, we are not merely addressi...
07/04/2026

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲.

When we advocate for menstrual health, we are not merely addressing hygiene-we are calling for the recognition of a critical public health issue. Many health and development challenges have period poverty at the core of their causes.

In November 2025, with support from , we provided 1000 girls with period kits consisting of two pants and a pack of six reusable AFRIpads. We have decided use these beneficiaries as a study group to contrast to those that didn’t benefit for data collection, with the objective of publishing a detailed, evidence-based report on how period poverty impacts the rights of rural girls-both in the present and as they transition into adulthood. What follows are real experiences shared by the beneficiaries, here is one story of brave and brilliant girl whose life and future may be profoundly shaped by the challenges of menstruation.

𝐀𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐠’𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲

Adong experiences her menstrual cycle three times a month, each lasting four days. This means she misses 𝟏𝟐 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 of school every month- out of 𝟐𝟐 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡, 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝟏𝟎 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬.

What kind of future can a child build with such limited access to education?
Can we truly expect her to compete academically with peers who attend school consistently?

Period Poverty is not just a health issue-it is a direct pathway to educational inequality and long-term poverty.

𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐄: If every Child has a right to education, is Adong and many other girls like her living out this right?

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞.
The right to health includes 4 essentials and interrelated elements:𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲.

The medication needed by Adong to regulate her hormones is not available in the local public hospital and neither can her mother afford to buy it privately. They also not only lack access but also can’t afford to see an endocrinologist that she has been referred too

We always tell the women we work with that their local knowledge is real expertise needed to solve problems that they fa...
01/04/2026

We always tell the women we work with that their local knowledge is real expertise needed to solve problems that they face. This farming season the women are so optimistic because they trusted theirselves and planted at the on set of rains while others were waiting for it to rain for a while.

Now they have started w**ding while others are just starting to plant and the weather is balanced so they are hopeful to have a great harvest come May.

This however teaches us a few things like timing being a great strategy and trusting indigenous knowledge and solutions from within the community ensure acceptability as well as posterity of the project. This are very key in our project implementation approach

One of the most powerful outcomes of our Economic empowerment program is that the women participating in it have begun ...
28/03/2026

One of the most powerful outcomes of our Economic empowerment program is that the women participating in it have begun taking collective action against Domestic Violence within their communities. When they suspect abuse, they reach out to the victim. If she confirms it, they mobilize-starting with a call to WAGRAU to verify whether the facts meet the legal definition of violence, if the abuse is aggravated and as such mediation is not a viable option, if a rescue and admission to our Shelter is the appropriate course among others.

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