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Foundation for Open Development (FOD) is a Community Centered Non-Governmental Organization engaged in improving the welfare of the citizens through Research, Advocacy, Conflict Mitigation and Capacity Building. The Organization is multi-disciplinary Indigenous Non-Governmental Organization and duly registered within the legal framework of Uganda Government thus Uganda National Bureau of NGOs (RN. 10431) and also Ministry of Gender Labor and Social Development – Tororo District Local Government (YT. 40605) to operate Countrywide. FOD slogan is “platform for the Voiceless”. It is concerned with the high plight of the human rights needs and abuses and its related social-economic effects on the people of Uganda, coupled with high growing poverty levels placing the majority of the population most especially the Women, Children and Youth in a desperate vulnerable state of life. The rural based persons badly affected due to lack of adequate involvement of citizen in the right based participa

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