Health and Gender

Health and Gender

Fidelitas is Gender transformative. We work to improve health outcomes and promote gender equity across Uganda and Africa at large. Our innovations and programs address NCDs, maternal and child health, infectious diseases, sexual and reproductive health, and gender-based violence. We believe that health equity and gender equality are fundamental to sustainable development and community wellbeing.

Fidelitas is Gender transformative. We work to improve health outcomes and promote gender equity across Uganda and Africa at large. Our innovations and programs address NCDs, maternal and child health, infectious diseases, sexual and reproductive health, and gender-based violence. We believe that health equity and gender equality are fundamental to sustainable development and community wellbeing.

Our Projects

Current and completed projects in Health and Gender

Gender-Based Violence Prevention
Planning

Gender-Based Violence Prevention

We address gender-based violence through social and gender norms change reflections, community awareness campaigns, survivor support services, male engagement and Fatherhood programs. We work with local leaders, police, and justice systems to create safer communities for women and girls. Key activities include establishing safe spaces, providing psychosocial support, legal aid services, and economic empowerment opportunities for survivors.
Amuria and Buikwe
Budget: $15,000
Dec 2025 - May 2026
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Girls Education and AGBV prevention
Planning
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Girls Education and AGBV prevention

Fidelitas has adapted REAL Fathers, a Fatherhood multi-faceted fatherhood program to improve girls' education,  retention and completion of primary and secondary education. The components include:  1) Vision for my family, 2) My Daughters and Sons, 3) Importance of Education 4) Overcoming obstacles to complete education, 5) Income generation for family dreams, 6) Loving my family, 7) Parenting Adolescents,  8) Adolescent mental health, healing and wellness, 9) Loving and conserving my environment, and 10) Community Building and Father-Daughter sports celebrations
Uganda and Mozambique
Budget: $800,000
Mar 2026 - Feb 2027
Education Ecosystems
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Community-led digital surveillance and prevention of violence

Community-led digital surveillance and prevention of violence

Developing and deploying a mobile data collection and management system to improve track, respond and improve gender, education, legal and health service delivery and monitoring. The platform enables real-time data collection, analysis, and decision-making at local, sub-county, district and National level.
National
Budget: $18,500
Jul 2025 - Dec 2025
Intelligent Community Response Systems (ICRS)
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Education Ecosystems

Education Ecosystems

Our education programs focus on improving access to quality education, strengthening education systems, and building capacity among educators and learners. We support early childhood development, primary and secondary education, vocational training, and adult literacy programs. We believe education is the foundation for individual empowerment and community transformation.

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Intelligent Community Response Systems (ICRS)

Intelligent Community Response Systems (ICRS)

At Fidelitas, Intelligent Community Response Systems (ICRS) represent a convergence of Sociology, Technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to address real-life needs and challenges. We leverage on simple accessible social-tech tools, such as basic mobile phones, group-based televisual AI learning hubs, and open source digital applications to reduce the digital divide by transforming community members into immediate intelligent data users. This process concurrently fosters digital literacy by requiring consistent, practical engagement with the technology, thereby building essential skills among local community users. The ICRS supports localized learning, identify emerging patterns and needs, and instantly push back highly refined, evidence-based insights and specific action protocols directly to the field teams, thus empowering and implementing truly community-led interventions that are dynamic, precise, and immediately responsive to the data collected by the community itself.

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Climate Change and Adaptation

Climate Change and Adaptation

We support communities to build resilience against climate change through sustainable environmental practices, climate-smart agriculture, and ecosystem conservation. Our programs promote renewable energy, sustainable land management, disaster risk reduction, enviromnental conservation, and climate adaptation strategies. We recognize that climate action is essential for protecting livelihoods and ensuring sustainable development.

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Health and Gender

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