Protection
Mission Uganda keeps children, families and communities safe: strengthening families to protect and care for children, preventing and responding to gender-based violence, and resolving land conflicts through mediation, boundary inspection and reconciliation.
Key Stakeholders We Work With
Protective environments for children and families are built with the whole community, including cultural and religious institutions and government systems.
Key Interventions
A rights-based, community-led, gender-responsive and inclusive approach to protection.
Child Protection & Family Strengthening
Promoting the survival, safety, development, participation and well-being of all children by preventing and responding to violence, abuse, neglect, exploitation and harmful practices, and strengthening families to protect and care for their children.
Support for Vulnerable Children
Particular attention to girls, children with disabilities, refugee children, orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs), children affected by poverty, and children living in humanitarian and post-conflict settings.
GBV Prevention & Response
Preventing gender-based violence and supporting survivors, working closely with community structures. See Gender Justice.
Peacebuilding & Land Conflict Mediation
Resolving land conflicts between families and communities through mediation, boundary inspection and reconciliation.
Building Protective Environments
Working with children, families, communities, schools, cultural and religious institutions and government systems to create protective environments where every child can grow, learn and thrive.
Community-Led Case Management
CLDA volunteers and community structures identify and refer protection concerns, keeping response locally driven and sustainable.
Protection in the Field
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Protection Outcomes
Strengthened families better able to protect and care for their children.
Land conflicts resolved through mediation, boundary inspection and reconciliation, restoring peace between parties.
Increased community awareness on GBV prevention and referral pathways for survivors.
More protective, locally-owned support systems for vulnerable children through schools, cultural and religious institutions and community structures.
Join Us in Protecting Children & Families
Partner with us, volunteer, or support a protection initiative in Northern Uganda.