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Child Mothers / Women Affected by Demeaning Indigenous Norms Breaking Silence for our Rights and Safer Practices (CWABD) Here & Abroad.

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BACKGROUND of CWABD Here & Abroad

We are Indigenous Child Mothers/Women Affected by our Indigenous Harmful Practices against Local and International Human Rights/Laws
Yet the 1995 Uganda Constitution (Supreme Law) of Uganda Condemns any Culture/Practice and anybody who indulges

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Finance/Projects/Monitoring, do manage specific programs

Staff is interviewed/employed depending on qualification

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OUR LESDESHIP, DECISION MAKING AND FINANCE MANAGEMENT SET UP

As we are Indigenous women/girls who initiated this Organization ourselves, we are leading it ourselves as Indigenous Child Mothers and Women victims of harmful Cultures

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Any unsatisfying receipt/field materials, the implementer must refund the money
Board of Trustees also include Indigenous Girl/women victims of Harmful Practices with equal authority in decision making
Executive Committee executes Board Plans

Management Committees eg

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Local/International Women/Girls Rights

-We also help Government to effect its Human Rights and Laws in our Indigenous Communities.

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Policy, Human Resource Policy, Safeguarding Policy, Financial Policy which guide us in best management skills

-We also mobilize for COPACSO when it is doing its work in our Indigenous communities

2- Government Office of Gender, Ethics and Integrity

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-It’s the office that Evaluated our Organization and Registered us as CBO first and after we Registered at the National Level as an NGO with 5 year work Permit Countrywide

-They attend their Annual meetings where they avail us with information materials about

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From us, many Indigenous girls/women started rejecting/reporting harmful practices

COPACSO also offered us free sensitization about our human rights/Laws protecting us and best procedure to advocate for our rights

-COPCSO trained us in Organizational Policies eg Procurement

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NETWORKS

COPCSO (Coalition of Pastoralist Civil Society Organizations)

- We are members and COPCSO always involves us in its “Annual Pastoralist week” where we always present our need for reforming indigenous Cultures to stop dangerous practices and maintain safer practices

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ACHIEVEMENT 6: We have engaged 27 Schools Children in Mind set MDD (Music Dance and Drama) to grow hating Negative Cultural Practices

See Photos on our Twitter: https://t.co/XbKpjUtI30

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Leaders to Enforce Defilement Law and International/Local Human Rights in our Indigenous Communities

See photos of Police/Local Leaders we involved in our Community Meetings: https://t.co/XbKpjUtI30

ACHIEVEMENT 5: We trained 120 Change Agents in 2021 and 150 Change Agents in

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2023

They always keep eyes/ears on ground to Report anyone attempting to defile/marry girls before age of 18 years or Circumcise a girl against her will

Our Change Agents have so far reported 132 cases of indigenous girls at risk of Defilement/forced marriage

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Indigenous Girls from forced early marriage and prevented 375 Girls at risk of forced early marriages, they didn’t fall victims.

See photos of Indigenous Girls we rescued on our Twitter: https://t.co/XbKpjUtI30

ACHIEVEMENT 4: Our work has influenced Government Police, Local

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ACHIEVEMENTS

ACHIEVEMENT 1- Mobilizing ourselves as Voiceless Poor Indigenous Girls/Women Victims of Harmful Norms, forming our Organization CWABD ( Child Mothers / Women Affected by Demeaning Indigenous Norms Breaking Silence for our Rights and Safer Practices).

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They learnt their rights/Laws against violent Norms, they disclosed sexual violence they were facing silently then suggested solutions
So now violators fear to defile Indigenous girls well aware our meetings have sharpened them can report

ACHIEVEMENT 3: Our work Rescued 278

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2019 79 Indigenous ChildMothers and 105 Women attended
2020 173 Indigenous ChildMothers and 321 Women attended
2021 347 Indigenous ChildMothers and 432 Women attended
2022 297 Indigenous ChildMothers and 368 Women attended
2023 472 Indigenous ChildMothers and 406 Women attended

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Opening Office and Registering to National Level

ACHIEVEMENT 2- Reduction in Sexual Violence (Defilement and forced early marriage) in our Indigenous Communities where we have been able to reach with our “District to District Indigenous Women/Girls’ Day”