Funding Portfolio
Grassroots
Nest for Innovations and Change (GRIC) in Collaboration with Foundation for
Inclusive Community Help (FICH); 2021 –
To date. Supporting vulnerable children from rural communities to access
foundational literacy and numeracy
ENVenture; 2019 to date. Supporting DEPCOT with scaling up production and distribution of improved coking stoves, ENVenture also provided DEPCOT with commodity grants inform of solar devices in efforts to promote access to clean and sustainable energy solutions
Global Land Care Inc; 2023. Provided DEPCOT with funds for encountering Invasive Plant Species through active promotion of local ones. The project actively integrated raising of local plant species in our nursery beds, distributing and planting the raised seedlings in our seven partner-schools where we are currently promoting foundational literacy and numeracy funded by GRIC. Some of the raised seedlings were distributed targeted households in the communities that we operate in. The project also facilitated formation of environment clubs in schools and empowered the clubs to effectively create community awareness on pressing issues of ecosystem degradation and recommended response measures according to the UN decade on Ecosystem Restoration
Uganda Green Enterprise Finance Accelerator (UGEFA); 2021 to date. Supporting DEPCOT with finances to stimulate its green enterprise impact scaling project
Plan International Uganda; (2018 – 2022). Supported DEPCOT with
grants for prevention and response to child marriage, Adolescent sexual
reproductive health, OVC case management, production and scaling-up
distribution and utilization of cost effective re-usable sanitary pads
GIZ-ECOS Project; Supported DEPCOT to enhance competiveness of its green enterprise sustainably impact communities socially, economically and environmentally
Solar Fire Concentration Oy; Provided solar oven to DEPCOT to support youth bakery projects in Kole District
USAID SCORE funding through AVSI Foundation; (2011 – 2018 beginning), targeting OVC & their Households in areas of economic empowerment, food security & Nutrition, child protection & legal services and family strengthening. Under economic empowerment sub components included: commercial farming / farming as a business, vocational skills training through apprenticeship, village saving and loan associations (VSLAs), financial literacy and market linkages. In the aspect of food security & Nutrition sub components / activities included: nutritional dialogues, information sharing interactive learning sessions and horticultural practices like backyard and Kitchen gardening and generally nutritional farming for home consumption for better health. The component of child protection included case management, awareness creation and referral system. Lastly, family strengthening component involved increase in household knowledge level and practices to enable them adapt healthy and socio-economic attitude and behaviors
IFDC 2
Scale; (2013). Targeted farmers & it was streamlining value chain in sorghum
production in the all of Lango sub region. This was a consortium project that
involved International Fertilizer Development Centre (IFDC) as lead agent,
DEPCOT as technical service provider in farmers profiling, agronomy,
post-harvest handling and storage to private sector (Farmers Service Ltd), the
consortium also had Nile breweries as the main buyer of sorghum, another
partner was International center for innovation in Agriculture (ICRA) that also
provided capacity building for main actors in the consortium.
African Women Development Fund; (2018). Provided DEPCOT with funding for commemoration of World AIDS Day of 2018 in Otwal sub county of Oyam District
Other Partners / Collaborators
Transparency International Uganda (TIU) – DEPCOT
is participating actively in implementation of project called “Open Contracting
for Health” shortened as OC4H with TIU
Civil
Society Budget Advocacy Group (CSBAG) – DEPCOT participated in health centre
& school budget monitoring under CSBAG in Lira
Human
Rights Centre Uganda (HRCU) – DEPCOT is an active participant in regional human
rights defenders’ (HRDs) forums and Annual HRDs Forums organized by HRCU
Lira NGO Forum – active
participant in Joint advocacy activities and networking
Consortium of Uganda Clean Energy Actors
(CUCA) – Voluntary umbrella organization of civil society organization that are
scaling up distribution of clean energy technology, its currently Chaired by
DEPCOT
Lango Cultural Foundation (LCF)
Champions of Change Clubs (young people’s clubs spearheading promotion of gender equality, Sexual reproductive health and rights information, breaking negative social norms, fighting child marriage and teenage pregnancy and preventing violent extremism
