Brave Movement Uganda

We are Brave So that Children can be Safe: Join Us to End Childhood Sexual Violence in our Families, Communities and Nation: The #BraveMovement #BeBrave Today:

[Brave Movement Uganda @BebraveUganda]

We are Brave so that children in Our Families, Communities and Nation can be Safe:
Join the #BraveMovement and be part of Prevention Healing and Justice for Survivors of Childhood Sexual Violence: #BeBrave Today and Always:
@BeBraveGlobal @BeBraveAfrica @totyaplatform @Mglsd_UG

[Brave Movement Uganda @BebraveUganda]

Our Co-Chair @nankunda20 appears as a Member Spotlight by @BeBraveGlobal
Her efforts towards mobilizing partners to stand together and #EndChildhoodSexualViolence can’t go unnoticed:
Thank you for Being Brave at all Times:
@RaisingTeensUg2 @vowforgirls @together4girls #BeBrave

[Pillar Mbabazi🇺🇬 @pillar_mbabazi]

Reimagine a world where every girl menstruates safely and healthily.

A world where no girl misses school, loses confidence or limits her dreams because of menstruation.

We can break menstrual stigma and create a future where every girl thrives. #Hike4GirlsUg

[@Youthchaperonug @youthchaperonug]

We are glad to join members of @GNB_Uganda Central & @CEDOVIPUganda, with support from @GirlsFirstFund for a two-day Advocacy Training on Ending Child Marriage in Uganda to strengthen frontline advocates to amplify community voices & drive lasting change for women and girls. 🇺🇬

[Wezesha Girls Network-Ug🇺🇬 @WezeshaGirls]

This Saturday, we are lacing up, speaking up and showing up for #GuluMenstrualHygieneRun2026

Our steps mean dignity for girls in our communities.
Come one come all.

[Touch the Heart Uganda @touch_uganda]

Day 1 of training, done. ✅

Advocacy training on #EndingChildMarriageNow
Skills don’t just happen they’re built.
Trainings like this equip frontline workers with tools to spot, stop & speak out against child marriage. @CEDOVIPuganda @GirlsFirstFund @GirlsNotBrides

[Brave Movement Uganda @BebraveUganda]

Check out the power of Partnerships:
Different members inspiring the young people in Kamuli district:
We are creating awareness and encouraging young people to open up and report cases of #SexualViolence

Justice can be achieved only if we open up and report: #BeBrave Today:

[Transcend Africa Foundation @TranscendAfric]

At TRAF, we believe empowered girls build stronger communities.
This Saturday in Gulu, we’re lacing up for the #GuluMenstrualHygieneRun2026 running to break stigma, provide pads, and keep girls in school.
Mentorship starts with showing up. Advocacy starts with your steps.

[Brave Movement Uganda @BebraveUganda]

Our Co-Chair @nankunda20 appears as a Member Spotlight by @BeBraveGlobal
Her efforts towards mobilizing partners to stand together and #EndChildhoodSexualViolence can’t go unnoticed:
Thank you for Being Brave at all Times:
@RaisingTeensUg2 @vowforgirls @together4girls #BeBrave

[Raising Teenagers Uganda🇺🇬 @RaisingTeensUg2]

When girls miss school because they cannot access sanitary pads or fear menstrual stigma, they lose valuable learning time, fall behind in class and may eventually drop out.

No girl should have to choose between managing her period and pursuing her dreams.

Through #Hike4GirlsUg, we are raising awareness, mobilizing support and advocating for menstrual dignity so that girls can stay in school, learn confidently and reach their full potential.

Every step we take is a step towards a world where menstruation never limits a girl’s opportunities.

[Brave Movement Uganda @BebraveUganda]

Today we join the rest of the world to commemorate the International #DayOfTheAfricanChild in Kamuli District:
We appreciate our members for embracing the power of working together in partnership and collaboration:
Thank you @youthchaperonug for hosting this: #BeBrave

[#EAPhilanthropyNetwork @EAPhilanthropy]

Most keynotes about a funding crisis are written in the grammar of the open hand. @TamukaKagoro77 showed up speaking a different language altogether, the language of a forensic accountant who has been through the continent's books and found them solvent. He never reached for the world's wallet. Every minute went to a single question: 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒏, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒉𝒚 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒔 𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒆𝒍𝒔𝒆.

Then the figures, laid down like evidence.

◾️The diaspora alone sends home $100 billion a year, more than every foreign aid budget combined, and it 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒏𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒕.
◾️$4 trillion sits in African domestic savings. Another $1.8 trillion sits in African pension funds. Solvency was never the question.
◾️Aid dropped almost 12 percent in one year, the steepest fall in a decade, and the financing gap holds at $1.3 trillion a year. He treated that collapse as a reveal instead of a wound.
◾️Giving inside the continent climbs 8 to 10 percent a year, faster than the world. 𝑨𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒐.
◾️Under a tenth of the philanthropic money raised in Africa's name reaches African hands directly. The rest is metabolised by intermediaries who keep a cut and keep the authorship.
◾️He refused the word localisation and handed back a harder one, 𝒓𝒆-𝒔𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝑨𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝑨𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂.
◾️Then the mechanism. A catalytic fund engineered to turn $200 million into $2 billion of private investment, one philanthropic dollar dragging ten in behind it.
◾️Trust-based, unrestricted money lifted organisational resilience by 40 percent and impact by a third in a 2024 study, 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒕.
◾️He named the ruling model audit culture and asked the room to bury it, funding agency in its place, multi-year and unpoliced, the decisions left to the people living the problem.
◾️And the line the room will keep repeating, that the capital was always here 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒕.

He closed on 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒅, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒓 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒏𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒕. The reckoning he forced was plain arithmetic, a continent counting its own money out loud and hearing, for once, that it was rich the whole time. The architecture is whatever it dares to build now that the figures are on the table. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈, he said, and after an hour in that room, neither should we. #10thEAPC @OpenSociety

[Raising Teenagers Uganda🇺🇬 @RaisingTeensUg2]

Day 2 of the 10th #EAPC2026 challenged us to think beyond funding and ask deeper questions about ownership, sustainability and the future of African philanthropy.

A powerful reflection reminded us that if external funding disappeared tomorrow, only what we have built, financed and sustained ourselves would remain.
The conversation called on us to move from dependence to resilience, from projects to systems and from short term impact to generational change.

The true measure of our work will not be what we achieve today but the legacy future generations inherit from the institutions, communities and opportunities we build now.
History is watching and the future is waiting.

[#Hashtag Movers @Hashtag_Movers]

Powerful conversations today on the future of philanthropy in East Africa. As funding landscapes shift, local giving and strategic partnerships are becoming more important than ever. #EAPC2026 | @EAPhilanthropy

[#EAPhilanthropyNetwork @EAPhilanthropy]

A paradox @Dr. @tmurisa put to the #10thEAPC: Africa holds 60% of the world's uncultivated arable land, yet spends 45 billion dollars a year importing food, and grows the world's cotton while processing only 2% of it. 𝑺𝒆𝒍𝒇-𝒔𝒖𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒚𝒆𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆. - @sivioinstitute #10thEAPC

[Brave Movement Uganda @BebraveUganda]

Our Members are present at the ongoing #10thEAPC happening in Addis Ababa:
It’s Philanthropy on the move:
@EAPhilanthropy @Gracecare19 @RaisingTeensUg2 @TMFUganda

[Raising Teenagers Uganda🇺🇬 @RaisingTeensUg2]

One of the highlights of today’s meeting is seeing young people actively participating in conversations that directly affect their lives and futures.

There is nothing for young people without the meaningful involvement of young people. Their lived experiences, ideas and voices are essential in shaping effective solutions and policies that respond to their realities.

Young people are not just beneficiaries of change; they are partners, advocates and leaders in the movement to #EndChildMarriage and create safer, brighter futures for all.

[Gracecare Children Initiative @Gracecare19]

Our Executive Director @Kemi1104Grace is representing GraceCare in Addis Ababa ~Ethiopia for the #10thEAPC organized by @EAPhilanthropy
A space for Learning, connecting and sharing best practices with like minded people from around East Africa:

[Raising Teenagers Uganda🇺🇬 @RaisingTeensUg2]

Well done Team:
Your efforts are not in vain:
#10thEAPC @EAPhilanthropy @Gracecare19 @vowforgirls

[Hope Nankunda @nankunda20]

Day 2 at the @EAPhilanthropy Philanthropy Conference in Addis Ababa, and the conversations continue to be insightful and inspiring.

It has been valuable to hear directly from funders, philanthropists and development partners about the evolving funding landscape in East Africa and beyond. As traditional funding streams become increasingly constrained, one message stands out clearly: organizations must adapt, innovate and build resilience.

The discussions on fundraising strategies have reinforced the importance of diversifying income sources, strengthening donor relationships, investing in local philanthropy and exploring social enterprise models that can sustain our work beyond grant cycles.

For those of us working at the grassroots, especially with vulnerable children, adolescents and communities, sustainability is no longer optional, it is essential. The ability to continue showing up for the people we serve depends on how well we prepare for the changing realities of funding.

I leave today’s sessions encouraged and challenged to think differently about resource mobilization, partnerships, and long-term organizational growth. Building resilient organizations is not just about surviving difficult seasons; it is about ensuring that our impact endures for generations to come.

Grateful for the opportunity to learn, connect and collaborate with changemakers from across the region at the East Africa Philanthropy Conference. #EAPC2026 @RaisingTeensUg2 @FordFoundation @vowforgirls @CivLegacy_F @ToZeroOrg

[Wezesha Girls Network-Ug🇺🇬 @WezeshaGirls]

Yesterday’s session was on“The State of the Ecosystem” the challenges and opportunities within our current system, and the urgent need to rethink how we strengthen institutions.
We look forward to continued learning, engagememnt and collaborations.
@EAPhilanthropy

#EAPC2026