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Community Organizations National Association of Women’s Organizations in Uganda
National Association of Women’s Organizations in Uganda
National Association of Women’s Organizations in Uganda
Acronym
nawou
Non Governmental organization
Website
Phone number
+256 (0) 414 258463

Location

Hoima Road. P.O.Box 1663
Kampala
Uganda
Working languages
English

The National Association of Women’s Organizations in Uganda (NAWOU), registered as A Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) in 1993, is an umbrella organisation of women founded and women led organisations. Its membership category are District networks, which are clusters of women’s Community Based Organisations (CBOs), Faith Based Organisations (FBOs) and NGOs, national NGOs, nationally registered FBOs and women’s professional bodies.

NAWOU boasts of being the most grounded women’s organisation because of its members found in all parts of Uganda and as the oldest women’s organisation based on its foundation as the National Council for Women in the 1960s.

MISSION

To promote the growth of a strong women’s movement in Uganda that advocates for the rights of women and enhance their social-cultural, economic and political status

Members: