We are the African Integrated Initiatives for Community Development, AIICD1. AIICD’s mission is “To create a unified voice of women, youths and other vulnerable groups that influences the solving of Africa’s most pressing problems, protection of human rights of unprivileged and marginalized sections in Uganda through unity, capacity building, networking, advocacy, development support and making partnerships.
AIICD’s Objective
Unite Community efforts to:
a. Improved quality of life and health in the Rwenzori region
b. Improved livelihoods of Children, the underserved and Vulnerable Persons
c. Capacity building of vulnerable groups to ensure them effectively contribute to their welfare
d. Stigma, negative attitudes, inequalities, injustices gender imbalances reduced.

In order to realize the above objectives, AIICD has done and continues to do the following;

Mobilization of members: AIICD mobilizes its members in order to have a common voice that would present and represent needs and challenges specific to abuse of their rights to education, reproductive health, and employment and to help them recognize their challenges and potential to eradicate them.
Capacity building: AIICD believes in empowerment of its membership. We do training into strong active advocacy groups able to define and articulate women rights specific issues and seek redress to them.
Advocacy: AIICD works with its members to lobby and advocate for the rights and services to disadvantaged and vulnerable rural and urban poor women including the persons with disabilities. specific needs and legislation, provision of support for meaningful and sustainable livelihood initiative and lobby government and civil society organisations on the need to undertake the prevention of women rights abuse and provision of women user-friendly services i.e. education infrastructure that is girl child friendly, good maternal health care systems, equal participation and presentation in, leadership, decision and policy making etc

Livelihood support: Our organization is mainly concerned with the vulnerable rural and urban poor women and girls. These include subsistence farmers, grandmothers, housewives who have no formal employment. AIICD has worked together with these communities to get schools, health centres and other self-help projects so as to improve their livelihoods.