Human Development

CPAR Uganda selects and trains members of disadvantaged communities in Uganda into change agents, supports and encourages them to work within their respective communities to:

• Stimulate adoption of the culture of saving for investment
• Promote investment in and managing viable income generating activities
• Pro-actively participate in leadership and decision-making processes
• Mobilize and deploy their social capital for the greater good.

Objective

Stimulate positive mindset change, which promotes the spirit of self-reliance and proactive effective participation in own development among disadvantaged communities.

Enabling beneficiaries to become proactive change agents who productively participate in own development initiatives and earn sufficient incomes to provide their households with basic and genuine needs.

Mission and Vision

Support healthy lives in Uganda by stimulating the development, dissemination, and widespread application of technologies that are suitable for conditions in Uganda, so as to contribute towards our vision of healthy communities in Uganda.

Contextualized against the backdrop of the most recent United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Human Development Index (HDI) report for Uganda, published in 2025, which indicates Uganda’s HDI continues to improve and is now at 0.532. Nevertheless, it is significantly lower than the global average HDI 0.756.

Whereas, Ugandans are indeed living longer, with an average life expectancy of 68.2 years, according to the most recent, 2024 Uganda national population census, Ugandans could live longer still and in better health than many currently do.

Current Projects 2025

Dr. Paul Hargrave Memorial Centre Human Development Project (2025-2026) – Overall aim is stimulating positive mindset change, which promotes the spirit of self-reliance and proactive effective participation in own development. To skill disadvantaged men and women in practical self-reliant participatory development; media for education and development; and conduct of qualitative investigations (empirical research). Funded via Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief.

Financial Literacy and Loans for Women – Enabling women to access financial literacy and collateral-free loans. Industrious and innovative disadvantaged women at the grassroots are struggling to put food on the table. They are hawkers, vendors, traders, artisanal entrepreneurs, smallholder farmers, who need access to inexpensive finance and financial literacy to enhance profitability of their enterprises and to improve livelihoods. Little by Little, we can establish a community loan fund to give women loans and financial literacy. Fundraising on-going via GlobalGiving.

Restore eyesight and worth of rural poor – Enable people from disadvantaged communities in rural Uganda to access eye care services. By equipping eye doctors with the necessary material, medicines, equipment and other resources that they need to facilitate them to go to the people, through community outreaches, medical camps and home visits, to provide eye care services; and bring back to hospital the seriously afflicted in needed of specialized care. Fundraising on-going via GlobalGiving.

Support life-saving tuberculosis research – USAID funding cuts halted tuberculosis (TB) research in Uganda. Training community-based TB research change agents will enable grassroots TB research to be conducted. Enabling collection of good qualitative data that is vital for controlling TB. Research findings which inspire interventions to reverse the trend of 90,000 Ugandans annually infected with TB due to insufficient knowledge about the disease and implementation of inappropriate interventions. Fundraising ongoing via GlobalGiving.

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