Building resilient livelihoods, restoring dignity, and driving inclusive growth for persons with disabilities, youth, out-of-school girls, and low-income households across Northern Uganda
SEE addresses systemic poverty, exclusion, and vulnerability by integrating financial inclusion, skills development, and asset-based interventions into one mutually reinforcing model, built around persons with disabilities, youth, out-of-school girls, and low-income households
A community-driven financial inclusion model enabling vulnerable populations to build savings, access credit, and invest in income-generating activities.
Equips vulnerable youth, especially teenage mothers and out-of-school girls, with market-relevant, income-generating skills and pathways to entrepreneurship.
An asset-transfer and livelihood resilience initiative for households of persons with disabilities, particularly those who have received mobility aids.
CFI’s VSLA model runs through two distinct participant categories, each designed around the barriers that group actually faces.
8 groups across Otwal, Aleka, and Barr sub-counties
Membership includes PWDs and their caregivers, for household-level resilience
Annual seed capital of UGX 2,000,000 per group, plus financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and governance training
Across Oyam, Omoro, and Lira District, CFI has supported the formation and strengthening of 58 VSLA groups, bringing together over 1,945 members to save, access loans, build livelihoods, and strengthen household resilience.
CFI actively links VSLA groups to government social protection and livelihood programmes, bridging informal savings groups into formal financial and government structures.
Connects VSLA groups to Uganda's flagship parish-level poverty eradication and wealth creation programme.
Provides women-led VSLA groups access to enterprise financing and business development support.
Links youth-inclusive groups to government-funded livelihood and skills investment opportunities.
Financial inclusion builds capital. Skills development builds capacity. Asset transfer builds productive resources. Together, the three components move participants along one continuous pathway.
Financial Inclusion
VSLAs build savings and access to capital.
Skills Development
Skilling builds market-ready capacity.
Asset Transfer
Piggery & goats build productive household resources.
See how it connects to our other programs in education, health, and livelihoods work, or review our impact since 2017.
A charity nonprofit organization advancing the rights, dignity, and well-being of Persons with Disabilities in Uganda and beyond.
