Last year, Concern's Julie Harris travelled to Uganda where Concern works with some 44,600 people in the slums of Kampala. In this piece she writes about an inspiring woman from the slums who, with Concern's help, has managed to start her own business.  (04 Mar 2008)

The Rakai Community Capacity Development Programme (CCDP) is a programme of support to the Ugandan government’s decentralisation process. The programme seeks to support communities to participate effectively in bottom-up planning to and ensure local accountability from their elected leaders and councillors.  

The Mpigi HIV/AIDS Home Care Programme in Uganda began as a programme where Concern built on a traditional, informal mechanism of grassroots social capital and helped it to become more structured and capacitated in order to deal with the AIDS pandemic.