PICSA UGANDA

AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE,

SUPPORTING MARGINALIZED

TO ACCESS QUALITY HEALTH AND

EDUCATION AND LIVELIHOOD

AND UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES

PROMOTE AND ADVOCATE

APPROACHES FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS

FOR GENDER SENSITIVE

TO SUPPORT MARGINALIZED AND
UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES

TO ACCESS QUALITY AND
AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE.

ABOUT US

Partners in Community Social Action (PICSA) Uganda is a legal entity fully registered as national, non-governmental organization with a mandate of working with local communities towards saving lives and improving health and livelihood empowerment for sustainable wellbeing. Since 2016, PICSA Uganda, headquartered in Moyo district of Uganda, was providing integrated primary health and livelihood services.

Our Mission

A non-profit organization Saving lives and improving health by increasing access to quality, effective healthcare and livelihood services for the most vulnerable and underserved communities.

Our Vision

Quality, effective health and livelihood services for the most underserved communities.

Our Core Values

1. Team work, Stakeholder coordination and People-centered development
2. Inclusiveness and diversity
3. Accountability and reporting
4. Respects the unique and inherent worth of all individuals.
5. Moral and ethical, integrity Fairness and equity.
6. Honesty, transparency and accountability to stakeholders.
7. Communication and collaboration.
8. Community managed sustainable and impact-oriented development

Our Objectives

1. Increase access to primary health care services to underserved communities.
2. Reduce malnutrition and food security that causes irreparable damage to livelihood, hereby reducing self-sufficiency through sustainable food security and livelihood
3. Promote and advocate for gender sensitive approaches to enhance women’s rights and strengthen the participation and involvement of women and vulnerable groups in programs and organization.
4. Strengthen community capacity to cope with future shocks in disaster preparedness and Management.
5. Improve the protection of and respect for the human rights and dignity of vulnerable populations –with a special focus on women, children and marginalized groups – through effective advocacy and the application of a rights-based approach across all sectors;
6. Work with local communities and encourage management practices that conserve local natural resources.

Challenges

Uganda’s 45 million people are 80% rural. Poverty is endemic with 30.1% of the population living on under 1.77 per/day. The combination of poor access to basic health care services, strain on the healthcare system, high burden from infectious diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis and poverty results in some of the highest mortality rates in the world. We address this by providing quality and effective health, climate resilient and livelihood services to the last mile communities.

Interventions

• Deliver effective community-based health and livelihood system
• Delivering climate resilient approach to the community
• Engage and train community health and livelihood workforce to deliver health services
• Collaborate and support government to strengthen community and institutions services
• Deliver effective education and sensitization on community health and livelihood services.

Pathways

1. Advocating for and building strong community and institution-based system.
2. Training, capacity building, mentoring and growing community and institution system workforce.
3. Delivering effective community-based health, livelihood, energy and climate resilient system for underserved communities.

Why Our Solution Is Best

80% of the communities live in poverty. The simple, affordable, and evidence-based program we have developed is highly scalable and replicable, and has the potential to reach millions underserved communities living in extreme poverty. We have the relationships, technology, programs, and people to end health access gap.

Our Target

To provide high quality and effective health and livelihood services. We’re on a mission to reach 5 million people in underserved communities with little access to health care, livelihood renewable Energy access and those experiencing climate change impact in ten years.