FAQs on Advocacy Campaigns and Partnerships Program
The Advocacy Campaigns and Partnerships Program at the Centre for Food and Adequate Living Rights (CEFROHT) drives systemic change through human rights-based advocacy, legal reforms, and strategic partnerships. Focused on food safety, environmental justice, and health rights, the program empowers communities, engages policymakers, and builds coalitions for sustainable impact. Below are answers to common questions about our approach, partnerships, and ongoing initiatives.
The program advances the right to adequate food, health, and environmental justice through advocacy, legal reform, policy engagement, and coalition building. Key focus areas include food safety, breastfeeding, agrochemicals, school feeding, and seed sovereignty.
We use a Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA), emphasizing participation, accountability, empowerment, and the rule of law to ensure systemic change and community-centered solutions.
We collaborate with:
- Media practitioners (trained in rights-based journalism)
- Judges & magistrates (trained on human rights enforcement)
- Lawyers (under the Uganda Law Society Food and Nutrition Cluster)
- University students (via Food and Law Clubs)
- Local communities & leaders (through dialogues)
- Government ministries & CSOs (via technical working groups and coalitions).
For more details contact [email/phone].
We partner with ministries (Health, Education, Trade, Justice) and agencies like the Uganda Human Rights Commission and UNBS, contributing to policies such as the Food and Nutrition Bill and Consumer Protection Bill.
Key campaigns include:
- Food Safety
- Breastfeeding
- Seed Sovereignty
- School Feeding
- Agrochemicals & Agricultural Inputs
- Greenwashing
- Environmental Justice
- Policy & Legal Reform
Coalitions amplify advocacy impact by uniting CSOs and stakeholders, preventing silos, and strengthening policy influence at national and regional levels.
Yes! We collaborate with UNICEF, WHO, FAO, and regional partners like KELIN, Natural Justice (Kenya), and the East African Legislative Assembly.
Absolutely! Students join Food and Law Clubs, internships, and advocacy initiatives in legal research, seminars, and community outreach.
Contact us via our website or email to explore collaborations in research, policy advocacy, or community outreach.
We’ve trained media, legal professionals, and students; influenced national policies; empowered communities; and built coalitions driving reforms in Uganda and East Africa.
Fighting for food justice and land rights?
Join CEFROHT in empowering communities through advocacy and sustainable agriculture.
I had lost all hope after people tried to take my land in Kiboga. But CEFROHT helped me for free and took my case to court. Because of them, I got my land back. I can now farm and take care of my children. I thank CEFROHT so much for standing with me.
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One Voice, One Label: Uganda Launches a Food Policy Coalition to Tell the Truth About Our Food
Why lawyers, farmers’ advocates, consumer groups, students, and journalists have joined forces to put clear warning labels on unhealthy food, and why CEFROHT is in the thick of it. Line up ten packaged snacks on a table. Biscuits, crisps, noodles, a juice or two. How many of them would you guess are too salty to
October 7, 2026 -
Uganda’s Policymakers Commit to Warning Labels on Unhealthy Food
How a single day of dialogue with 70 policymakers and partners moved Uganda closer to clear warnings on foods high in salt, sugar, and fat, and why we will not let the momentum slip. Pick up a packet of biscuits, a soda or a bag of crisps in any Kampala supermarket and turn it over.
October 6, 2026 -
Bringing the Law to the Feast: CEFROHT’s Fight for the Right to Food at Terra Madre 2026
What a Ugandan team of lawyers and food rights advocates carried into the world’s biggest gathering of the Slow Food movement, and what we carried home. “So what exactly does a legal organization do at a food festival?” We heard some version of that question more than once in Turin. It was a fair one.
October 3, 2026 -
“He Who Controls Seed, Controls You”: Why We Are Asking EALA to Rewrite the EAC Seed Bill
Why CEFROHT told East African lawmakers to rewrite the proposed EAC Seed Bill, or let it go. Ask a farmer in Koboko where her groundnut seed came from and you may get a long answer. From her mother. From a neighbor who swapped it for beans. From a variety the village has been quietly improving,
October 3, 2026