Since 2001, our beneficiaries have benn able to sustain their lives
Over 3200 households
subsistance farmers
80%
women labour
75%
child mortality
15%
About
Organisation for Community Action (OCA) is a non-political, non-religious, not-for-profit-making community-based organisation established in 2001 in Lira, Northern Uganda to mobilise resources to implement strategic demand-driven community development initiatives geared towards improving the standard of living of the rural subsistence farmers through multi-sectoral intervention for sustainable household livelihood.
OCA was founded out of concern for the necessity to meet the needs of the people living under brutal poverty exuberated by a two-decades-long civil war which pitted the Government of Uganda Armed Forces and the Lord’s Resistance Army Insurgents
OCA operates in the districts of Lira, Alebtong, Kole and Maracha (West Nile) supporting over 3,500 households with practical knowledge and skills in sustainable agriculture, gender, household health, savings and credit and other socio-economic development projects.
Subsistance agriculture
Promoting crop and livestock production, tree planting, nutrition, and cooperative management
Wash
Promoting household health through good sanitation and hygiene practices, and provision of safe water.
Education Support
Providing sponsorship to vulnerable children and youth
Gender mainstreaming
Promoting joint planning and budgeting of family resources, human rights, education, and lobbying and advocacy.
Why Choose Us
Farmers Day
It’s a day all the farmers working with OCA gather to host this annual event during which farmer households and Groups showcase their achievements and share their success stories.They also display and sell their products and produce of the year. All these are a result of OCA intervention through a series of training topics conducted by OCA staff. On this day, farmers talk about OCA programme and its impact on their lives. This is the day that the farmers also sell some of their farm products while those doing small scale businesses sell their stock.
Activities
Under our projects we have differetn activities that we do
Small scale businesses
Most Farmers have taken up small businesses to sustain their families in terms of food, medical, and school fees.
Sanitation and hygiene
In Bardago community, sanitation continues to improve across villages, many households have permanent latrines with few temporary that are well maintained.
Stepup
StepUp is about working together to break the cycle of poverty. StepUp aims to help families to help themselves out of poverty and to become self-reliant. It works with men and women, ensuring both have an equal voice in issues faced by their family; and by bringing the community together, StepUp helps to tackle the long-term effects of poverty, war and prevent future conflict. In partnership together, we can help StepUp families to help themselves to a better life.
Agriculture
How to grow their own food more effectively, and sell the excess to pay for other needs.
Savings And Credit
works with the families to set up savings and credit groups. Through these groups the families learn to manage their savings and can access small loans
Project Organic Cereal #6
Let’s shine the dream with Agriculture
OCA in Association with LATEK
Our Programs
Make the Sustainable
Agriculture Choice for Business Success
and a Healthier Planet
Tree Planting ( green economy)
Education and Health support
Solar lights were provided to farmers to help their children to read in the late hours.
Soil sampling
Impact On
Small scale businesses
Most Farmers have taken up small businesses to sustain their families in terms of food, medical, and school fees.
Sanitation and hygiene
In Bardago community, sanitation continues to improve across villages, many households have permanent latrines with few temporary that are well maintained.
Livestock
livestock has greatly improved with many Boer goat offspring across the group as a result of Boer goat support by OCA
Our Partners
empowering communities
