Our work:

Uganda National NGO Forum is an inclusive national platform for NGOs to think and strategize on matters of mutual interest. With increasing interest from districts, we grew into a membership organization. Our strength and membership has since grown from 50 members in 2001, to more than 400 members. Membership cuts across local, national NGOs, NGO networks to international NGOs.

Our objective is to harness civil society's collective potential. Our brand name attracts interest from the NGO fraternity, including non members, the Government and the donor community.

The Forum was formed in 1997, to create a broad-based national body for NGOs to unite in their diversity, in pursuit of a collective agenda of engagement with government and other development actors.

Uganda National NGO Forum is a vital contributor and driver of several collective efforts to improve its internal and external perception through initiatives like the NGO Minimum Agenda, the NGO Quality Assurance Certification Mechanism (QuAM) and other civil society coalitions. We also focus on collective efforts to influence policies and practices of government, thus the demands to venture into policy advocacy, capacity building, policy research, NGO mobilisation and coordination.

In The Past:

Between 1997 and 1999, we became a front runner in the NGO sector's campaign for a facilitative operating environment.

From 1999 - 2005 together with other NGOs we sought to influence the 2001 NGO Registration (Amendment) Act.

We played a leading role in coordinating the participation of civil society in the PEAP revision exercise of 2003/04 and other policy processes thereafter.

Since 2006, Uganda National NGO Forum has continuously become an important voice for CSOs in Uganda.