Usalama Fund

The CivFund received funding from the Global Children Fund (GFC) to establish and pilot a Safeguarding Fund christened the Usalama Fund1. The Usalama Fund supports the development field to build awareness, learning, and infrastructure to ensure that the projects implemented by various development partners do no harm to the communities they seek to serve. During the 15-month pilot, the fund focused on three sectors women, children, and persons with disabilities in the Northern and Eastern subregions of the country.

The pilot aimed to identify and strengthen effective models and practices used by development organisations in the three sectors of focus. Rather than imposing specific safeguarding models, the Usalama Fund sought to gain a better understanding of the types of safeguarding strategies and models that were most effective within the Ugandan context. The Impact and Innovations Development Centre (IIDC) was enlisted to facilitate peer learning among the 11 organisations supported during the pilot. Read more