AVSI, funded by “Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children” through UNICEF, works for violence-free childhoods in Kyangwali and Omugo refugee settlements
GRADUATING TO RESILIENCE, AN ACTIVITY IMPLEMENTED BY AVSI FOUNDATION AND FUNDED BY THE OFFICE OF FOOD FOR PEACE, USAID GIVES HOPE TO CONGOLESE REFUGEES LIKE NDABAGYIMANA TUYAMBAZE AND HER SEVEN CHILDREN AND HOST HOUSEHOLDS
The first year for Graduating to Resilience concluded at the end of September, but the refinement period was extended by an additional three months until… Read More »Where we are now
The complexity of the context and the Activity interventions prompted the team to integrate Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) best practices into Activity design and… Read More »Collaborating, learning and adapting
The Graduation Approach seeks to empower ultra-poor households and individuals to reach and maintain conditions of greater economic self-sufficiency and resiliency in a sustainable and… Read More »Graduation Approach
From June-August, 2018, Graduating to Resilience conducted targeting exercises to identify eligible beneficiaries for the Activity. As part of this process, the team conducted two… Read More »Participatory Rural Appraisal
Uganda is currently experiencing record levels of refugee influx (approximately 1.1 million refugees[1]), which has brought key donors and actors such as the United Nations… Read More »The Graduating to Resilience Context
Between 2015 and 2018, the family resilience project reintegrated children, prevented separation and re-separation of children. Supported by the USAID-funded aspires project led by FHI360, AVSI, together with ReTrak, Companionship of Works Association (COWA) and Fruits of Charity Foundation (FCF), helped 650 households
During 2018 Festival of Friendship, AVSI-USA discussed moving from how we face immigration in the abstract to how we face immigrants – telling real stories of real people
