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

27/05/2026

During our Tea break we asked our Friend Festo and fellow grantee of what comes to his mind when he hears the word WAGRAU and here is what he said!

Day two of the convening and the focus is on starting social enterprises by non-profit organizations to address the shr...
27/05/2026

Day two of the convening and the focus is on starting social enterprises by non-profit organizations to address the shrinking donor funding opportunities!!

This morning we join other grantees of for a 3day Convening at Kampala
26/05/2026

This morning we join other grantees of for a 3day Convening at Kampala

Following the increase in violence among teenager and young adult relationships in serere, our community champions again...
21/05/2026

Following the increase in violence among teenager and young adult relationships in serere, our community champions against domestic violence have suggested that we start including teenage girls and young adults in our community advocacy drives on domestic violence and we strongly agree with them

Often advocacy against domestic violence focuses on married women.this is largely because of the the cultural silence surrounding abuse wherein women have been taught since they were girls that abuse is a normal private thing that their mothers, grandmothers went through it quietly and that is why they were “successful” in their marriages.

However, violence doesn’t start when in marriage, it often shows itself in the early stages of dating relationships through things like jealousy, isolation from friends and family,control, emotional manipulation, threats and physical abuse ignored as “LOVE”

Our Champions Rightfully state that engaging teenagers and young adults shall help:-

1. First, Prevention is more effective when done early. It teachers young girls about health relationship, respect, their value and boundaries.

2. Creating an open spaces for teenagers to talk. “We need to create a space where these teenagers can open up to us and tells what they may not be able to tell their Parents-for example when a girl rejects a boy and he starts harassing her, she may not find it necessary to inform the Parents because she doesn’t know it is abuse but also because it is embarrassing to her but if we engage them routinely, they can talk to us during the trainings or they will know of us the Champions and can come to us directly and talk to us about it”

Young people are not to young to learn, Infact if we truly want to break the cycle, then we should start it when would be perpetrators or victims have not been polluted with norms and practices that promote abuse- “Young men need to know that abusing a woman is not what makes them great men-they need to learn how to be future great husbands who will respect and value their future wives”

We couldn’t say it any more than that!

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

Address

Serere Kidetok Road , Asianut House (1km From The Road About)
Kampala
256

Opening Hours

Monday 09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 17:00
Thursday 09:00 - 17:00
Friday 09:00 - 17:00

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+256772291930

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