Since 2012, the Citizen Initiative for Democracy and Development has engaged in community empowerment programs and livelihood support activities for inclusive citizen’s development. CIDD-UG has mobilized communities to engage in our capacity building programmes aimed at equipping them with skills and knowledge for effective Gender monitoring and service delivery tracking as strategy for influencing local Government planning and budgeting processes at sub national level:
Since inception, Citizen Initiative for Democracy and Development (CIDD-UG) has invested significantly in the capacity development ranging from advocacy designing and research for knowledge building among citizens at national and sub-national level. Some of the contributions of Community Action .../Read More!
Through capacity skills development program, Citizen Initiative for Democracy and Development (CIDD-UG) has continued to carry out training programs for selected community based organizations (CBOs), civil society organizations (CSOs) and other community groupings in partnership with regional and .../Read More!
As way of creating synergies at all levels, CIDD has increased networking and collaborations at sub-national, regional and national level through strategic partnership with like-minded civil society organizations. This has increased the value of CIDD-UG and her interventions in the areas of .../Read More!
Mbabazi with joy narrates her story having engaged with TOPOWA.
When women are equipped with leadership skills and provided with safe spaces for civic engagement, they become powerful agents of change in their... .../Read More!
People with special needs leading the charge for accountability, access, and equality. In March 2025, CIDD-UG, under the Strengthening Citizens’... .../Read More!
During January-March 2025 reporting period, CIDD-UG conducted citizen-leader interaction sessions aimed at enhancing collaboration and mutual... .../Read More!
Participants pose for a photo with DANIDA representatives during SCEPA project inception.
During Quart 3, CIDD-UG participated in the inception meeting of SCEPA project under the leadership of Uganda National NGO Forum (UNNGOF) with... .../Read More!
CIDD taking young people through Digital data collection training
During the third quarter, CIDD-UG in partnership with Uwezo Uganda mobilized and trained 60 young people to collect data to generate evidence for... .../Read More!
Community member Fazila Namwabila makes demands for improved service delivery to OAG.
Uganda’s decentralized service delivery framework provides for a mixture of approaches to service delivery. These are: direct provision by local... .../Read More!
Arnold Schwarzenegger tells his rules of success. Arnold Schwarzenegger: Most Inspiring Speech- It Changed My Life.
We have been working on hyperlocal citizen generated data since 2015. We share our general methodology for for .../Read More!
A small Business can be a success, a small business doesn't have to stay small. It can grow into a big business. .../Read More!
