Participatory Initiative for Rural Welfare and Advocacy (PIRWA) formally Northern Initiative for Community Empowerment (NICE) is a registered Community-Based Organization with its office in Kwania District, Northern Uganda. The organization was founded in 2014, primarily to help improve the lives of people and bring back the lost hope after the Kony war in Northern Uganda.
Participatory Initiative for Rural Welfare and Advocacy (PIRWA) is solving the problem of “entitlement deprivation”, through Community Empowerment. Many people in Northern Uganda suffers from critical poverty, low access to and level of education, limited access to better Health Services and prevention measure, we are also focusing on other social problems like, women’s right to equal access to resources, domestic violence and children’s right. PIRWA works together with Local authorities, Charity groups, and Communities to deliver it services while embracing symbiotic partnership.
The majority of rural households in Northern Uganda survive on subsistence farming as a major source of livelihood and income. At PIRWA, we empower households with techniques through training them on long-term food storage and value addition among other skills, which foster self-employment, agriculture, business, and foster individuals and families to sustain themselves economically.
Empowered communities where women, men, youths and disadvantage community in Northern Uganda and beyond have skills and knowledge to enable them have the opportunities to succeed.
We envision a sustained Inclusive and empowered community where livelihoods and health are enhanced, poverty is reduced, children are well nurtured and their rights are observed.
To improve community livelihood opportunities, resilience and provision of resources and enabling environment where people can thrive.
PIRWA shall promote working together to achieve a common goal or objective while embracing, and pooling of each team member's skills and expertise to achieve success.
PIRWA shall adhere to a code of ethics, promote honesty, strong moral principles, and maintaining consistency between one's actions and their beliefs or values.
We are committed to uphold the spirit of honesty and transparency in all our operation with donors, beneficiaries, stakeholders and within the organizations.
At PIRWA, we are committed to ensure that the resources entrusted to us are used in a manner that brings maximum benefits to our project beneficiaries.
1. Promote empowered, inclusive and rights-respecting communities.
2. Promote inclusive economic empowerment and sustainable income opportunities.
3. Strengthen access to inclusive education, child care and skills development.
4. Promote inclusion, protection and wellbeing of vulnerable and disadvantaged groups.
5. Promote positive values, social responsibility and community cohesion.
6. Advocate for equality, inclusion, participation and rights.
7. Improve access to quality, equitable and community-responsive health services.
The ED, Participatory Initiative for Rural Welfare and Advocacy (PIRWA) formally Northern Initiative for Community Empowerment (NICE) justifying the valid proposition by sharing learning to address information gaps, through conducting community dialogue, to ensure young people make informed SRHR decisions during the UNFPA End teenage pregnancy boot-camp at outbox
PIRWA strategic aim is to promote Education through increasing access to equitable and inclusive quality education children in Northern Sub-Region of Uganda and beyond, while ensuring enhanced education systems through training school administrators. A comprehensive education that will address barriers that prevent most vulnerable school children and support school dropouts.
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Providing access to correct health information, and knowledge through campaign with focus on use of dialogue, debates, and sport to empower teenagers in and out of school. We use ports as medium to mobilize out of school teenagers because of its compelling ability to unite, and make teenagers feel a sense of belonging, and dialogue focus on community learners, health educators, and local authorities.
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PIRWA’s Economic Empowerment approach seeks to enable individuals and communities to build sustainable incomes, strengthen economic resilience and participate meaningfully in inclusive economic growth. We recognize that lasting poverty reduction requires more than short-term support, but rather, it requires people to have the skills, resources, opportunities and networks needed to improve their livelihoods and build productive assets.
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Our Sustainable Livelihoods approach is people centered, inclusive and resilience focused, supporting individuals and communities to build on their existing strengths, knowledge and resources to achieve lasting livelihood outcomes. We promote the development and effective use of human, social, natural, physical and financial assets, while strengthening people’s capacity to respond to economic, environmental and social vulnerabilities.
Read MoreRead some of the testimonials, stories, and community voices from some of our project participants.
Being a teenager is hard because sometimes we are disrespectful to our teachers and parents even when they are telling us the right things. I am happy I participated in the school outreach program organized by PIRWA because they taught us how to be respectful young adults.
I do not get enough support from my parents because they focus more on paying school fees and forget that I need other basic requirements like sanitary pads, lotion, etc so I get tempted by men who want to give me those things in exchange for sex but I refuse.
I love football because it gives me the chance to connect with my peers and discuss ssome of the isssues affecting us. I was happy to participate in the football match organized by PIRWA because they taught us about the dangers of teenage pregnancy.
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