Overview

CEDOVIP’s work began in 2000 under a tripartite partnership between National Association of Women’s Organizations (NAWOU), Raising Voices and Action Aid Uganda. This partnership spearheaded a community based pilot project to prevent domestic violence based on ‘Mobilizing Communities to Prevent Domestic Violence: A Resource Guide for Organizations in East and Southern Africa’, developed by Raising Voices. From 2000-2002 it operated as Domestic Violence Prevention Project, and in 2003, due to the strength and successes of the project, it became an independent organization known as Center for Domestic Violence Prevention.

CEDOVIP has received national and international acclaim for the project in Kawempe Division. The project, holistic in its approach, is highly participatory and spearheaded by a variety of stakeholders. Those stakeholders  include professionals working in local institutions such as the schools and health clinics, local council and religious leaders, women and men at the grassroots. Uniquely, the approach seeks to facilitate a process of individual and social change on the core issues that perpetuate domestic violence: women’s low status and gender inequity. Rights-based in its approach, the project seeks to stimulate and inspire change and uses a variety of activities to create a supportive environment for women.

CEDOVIP’S Objectives are:

1. To promote and enable national prevention and response to domestic violence.
   2. To mobilize communities in and around Kampala to change attitudes and behaviours that perpetuate domestic violence
   3. To create a supportive environment by influencing attitudes, actions and legislation that uphold women’s human rights, particularly the right to safety.

Organizational Background

CEDOVIP is managed by a Project Coordinator, staffed by 5 program officers, one accountant and one office assistant, and guided by a Board of Directors. CEDOVIP receives extensive technical support from Raising Voices.

Program Areas

The three program areas build on and strengthen each other, with a firm grounding in the reality of everyday life for Ugandans, feeding into the wider national processes to build environments supportive of women’s human rights from the grassroots up. 

1. Domestic Violence Prevention Demonstration Project
2. National Domestic Violence Prevention Initiative
3. National Advocacy Program

other CEDOVIP links:

Overview

Domestic Violence By-law

Program area: Domestic Violence Prevention Demonstration Project

Program area: National Domestic Violence Prevention Initiative

Program area: National Advocacy Program

SASA! In Action

CEDOVIP Annual reports: [2005] or [2006]