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Dri-Uganda
SKILLS BUILDING
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Empowering Women and Girls to excel in businesses

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Welcome to Development and Relief Initiative – Uganda (DRI-Ug)

Our Vision

Communities that are economically, socially and politically emanicipated to take charge of their own destiny in development.

Our Mission

Working with the vulnerable rights holders and other development agencies to bring social, economic and political Development.

Who We Are

Development and Relief Initiative – Uganda (DRI-Ug) is a registered not for profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) in Uganda (2012). DRI-Uganda started in Eastern Uganda in 2010 as a CBO, and continues to work directly, and in collaboration with vulnerable populations and diverse organizations to build healthy, empowered and developed communities that are free from the effects of War, Displacement, Climatic Weather Shocks that lead to Food Insecurity, Disease, Poverty, negative Cultural beliefs & Practices, inadequate service delivery, poor agricultural practices.

What We Do

DRI-U strives to address a diversity of issues with in the context of emergencies,recovery and development in 4 thematic areas.

  • Business and income security.

  • Agriculture development programs for enhanced livelihoods and stability.

  • 3. Disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptionand humanitarian action in emergecies.

  • 4. Improved Health education of marginalized groups (PLWAs,Women,Youth, Children, Elderly, Refugees, etc).

Our Core Values

  • Team work.

  • Accountability.

  • Integrity.

  • Subsidiarity.

  • Equal opportunities.

Featured Posts

NEVER BE LIMITED BY RESOURCES TO DO THE RIGHT THING.

DRI Uganda believes in imparting knowledge from anywhere. We are not limited by chairs, neither are we limited by space, we make use of whatever space is available in the vicinity of women’s homes to sit down learn and share experiences.  95% of our activities are community based. This eases access and improved women participation…

THE FUTURE STARTS NOW- YOUNG MOTHERS EMBRACING DEVELOPMENT.

DRI Uganda is currently working with 2800 women belonging to 140 village savings and loans associations (VSLAs). 42% are young mothers aged between 17 to 24 years. These young mothers are active group members and hold leadership positions in their groups. They mostly hold the secretary and money counter positions since most of them have…

LEARNING IS A CONTINUOUS PROCESS IN DRI-UGANDA

Every quarter DRI Uganda Team meets to discuss, review and learn from one another. Issues discussed include work as well as personal development. Last quarter the team was blessed to learn about self-awareness, self-discovery and personal goal setting. Members expressed gratitude and agreed to develop short term and long-term personal goals. They were very grateful…

PACKAGING AND BRANDING AS KEY ELEMENT IN PRODUCT STANDARDISATION.

Having been taken through the process of business identification and selection, DRI Uganda has embarked on the journey of supporting women entrepreneurs who are doing production to standardize their products. Women groups and individuals that are producing liquid detergents have been taken through a series of trainings aimed at improving market for their products through…

WOMEN EMPOWERING WOMEN

We all know that knowledge is power, following this fact DRI Uganda has embarked on a strategy of having women empowering their fellow women. The women that are now supporting their counterparts are also beneficiaries of DRI Uganda development programs. They joined DRI Uganda programs as vulnerable community members just like the rest and are…

ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT

“Learn to start with what you have. The entrepreneurial spirit doesn’t wait for the perfect day to start a business, but rather starts small with a vision for growth.“ Ruth Nakalembe

MENTORSHIP

WHO ARE YOU MENTORING? WHO ARE YOU HELPING ON LIFE’S JOURNEY? Mentor ship is about supporting and encouraging someone on their life’s journey. Pouring your life into their life. At DRI-Ug we mentor women and girls in entrepreneurship /business initiation, planning and management.

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Some of the Projects we work on.

We target vulnerable women become economically self-reliant thanks to the support provided to them in starting businesses, and in accessing credit and social networks for socio-economic inclusion and transformation.

Our Partners