MOST AT RISK POPULATIONS’ SOCIETY IN UGANDA (MARPS in Uganda) CONCEPT 2011-2016

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MOST AT RISK POPULATIONS’ SOCIETY IN UGANDA has the following vision: Ugandans accessing services without discrimination due to marginalization. Mission: To empower marginalised with knowledge and skills to promote action, uproot HIV-AIDS and ensure leadership towards promotion of development. We establish structures within which populations access development services. Our thematic areas are: Health mobilisation, social development, functional literacy/numeracy and establishing community owned resource persons (CORPs) to continue work in their own communities. Goal: Contribute to community development through empowering participation. We are using a five pronged approach: Establish ourselves as an organisation leading in raising awareness on  HIV-AIDS, Human Rights and Development; in urban settings we are using recreation spots as entry points, parks, repair garages, car-washing bays, film kiosks; in Universities and institutions of learning we are using the Campus fraternities/Sororities/School clubs; in non-urban settings we are using local government structures/NGOs/FBOs; Work with grass-root based organisations to reduce and eliminate poverty in Uganda. We follow crowds through Regional Support and Coordination Offices; Key Affected Population Constituencies; Community owned resource persons who are at five levels (Community level, Sub-county, District, Regional and Country levels)

OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Empowering people with information and skills to manage social change and economic development without discrimination.
ADDRESS:  Cambridge, MA, USA
CONTACTS: e-mail: marpsinuganda@gmail.com
                       
                         Website: www. keycommunitiesafrica.org
                         Blog: marpsinuganda.blogsite.com
           
FORMAL AFFILIATION: Registered in Uganda (134037)
 BANKERS: DFCU

BACKGROUND:

HIV-AIDS is still a threat to community inspite strides and mechanisms established to stem its tide. Most at risk populations are populations at a higher risk of acquiring HIV. There is need to re-commit and re-dedicate to eradicating it from the world. Such efforts are the reason why MARPS in Uganda joins hands with all such efforts to fight HIV. Our approach is combining HIV-AIDS/Human Rights and community development efforts as well as addressing by designing/implementing programmes and Consolidates promising practices reducing/eradicating VADS.

ACTIVITIES:

1.     Carry out administration.
2.     Carry out/ Conduct a revitalization of reaching out to all beneficiaries.
3.     Work with grass-root based beneficiaries in designing organisation development activities.
4.     Design HIV/STIs programmes and tools to address the problems identified by our beneficiaries.
5.     Analyze service provision in Uganda to gauge care, prevention, skills transfer, knowledge transfer, systems and structures in place, mitigation and interventions in place.
6.     Evaluate service provision by asking: what is provided; who accesses; why is that particular category accessing; how do they access; what is the environment within which they access making it possible or impossible.
7.     Empower communities to reduce/eliminate poverty.
8.     Provide documentation on promising practices eradicating such contexts within which HIV thrives and liaise with all forms of services providers to eradicate HIV from our community.

METHODOLOGY:

·        Carry out desk reviews of literature on Government of Uganda policies on eradication of HIV and impact of various contexts to empowering communities in engaging in decision-making efforts.
·        Carry out field research to evaluate service demand and provision
·        Establish a resource/Drop-in Demonstration Centers in 10 regions of Uganda.
·        Conduct activities in form of:  Health Fares, an interactive website, Counselling services and Income Generating activities (Agriculture, industry, fish-farming, education institutes, housing estate, land development, construction, tree planting…).
·        Dissemination activities to inform policy and programme on coverage concerning peoples’ needs.
·        Work through community owned resource persons who are at five levels (Community level, Sub-county, District, Regional and Country levels).
·        Establish peer review and reward systems for eradicating contexts within which HIV thrives.

PROBLEM STATEMENT:

Emerging evidence points towards disproportionate prevalence of HIV among key affected population groups. This sorry state is more than anything kindled by contexts of violence, abuse, discrimination, stigma, poor access, poor standards of living and poor livelihoods.

SOLUTION:

Uganda has made gigantic strides in providing one of the best environment within which communities partake in decision-making and get involved in eradicating ignorance, poor access, abuse of rights and poverty. Citizens and the larger community need to take it upon themselves to be part of what will eliminate HIV. Our organisation reiterates what the Government of Uganda has stated and towards which it has provided opportunities to eradicate. Community beneficiaries will be organized in work groups, trained in skills to improve on themselves, provided with start mechanisms to engage in transfer of learned skills into realizable efforts to establish structures within which in turn eradicate contexts that fuel HIV.

The following will be the achievements 2011-2016:

1.     We want to be key players in the process for development in Uganda.
2.     Mapping activities targeting eradication of poverty and providing a needs matrix which will enable us map out programmes to address the needs.
3.     To generate reports that point debate on poverty towards genuine consideration.
4.     To engage the Senior Management /Top Management Committees at the line Ministries in allocating time and space for MARPs issues in their schedules. This will in turn improve on local access to funding and other resources releases.
5.     Integrate issues in policy frameworks
6.     Establish ourselves as key players in HIV-AIDS, Human Rights, Health and development Programmes in Uganda. Through accessing funding and resources towards that goal.
7.     Establish MARPS in Uganda as a lead capacity and resource on MARPs issues in Uganda.
8.     Engage in consultancies to eradicate poverty and uproot contexts upon which violence, abuse, discrimination and stigma thrive.
9.     Work through community owned resource persons who are at five levels (Community level, Sub-county, District, Regional and Country levels).
10.                       Establish enduring durable reward and recognition systems across Uganda towards efforts to eradicate HIV in Uganda (e.g., Regional Symposia activities-ROSYs).

WORK PLAN (2011-2016):
ACTIVITY AND YEAR (2011-2016)
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
1.Re-establish as an HIV/Human Rights/Development capacity building actor
2011
2012
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2016
1. a. Reach out/mobilization activities/Fund raising/Lobbying and resourcing.
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2016
2.     Establish a mechanism under which all the grass-root organisations coalesce Officially
2011
2012
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3.     Solicit funds
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4.     Implement activities
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5.     Check whether all activities cascade into the various commitments: Jogyakarta, Cairo UNGASS, Soweto, Kampala Sanitation Comm.……
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2016



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