ICOD Action Network

• ICOD Action Network Executive Director hosted on WBEZ Global Activism Series with Jerome McDonalds (Chicago Public Media) Listen Online Here.
  
  

  ICOD Action Network Executive Director awarded Urban Agriculture and Food Security Fellowship funded by the US Department of State Bureau of Education and Cultural affair and Coordinated by Critical Mass Leadership Education Read More

• Permaculture comes to Uganda: 3 farming communities trained. Watch Video Here

In collaboration with Project Focus USA,  ICOD Action Network launched  a solar powered Internet Center in Lyantonde. The center is being used to implement ICT programs in southwestern Uganda

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Follow updates from our Community Solar Powered Internet facility, and see how Money invested is being used to benefit of the intended beneficiaries. (Click Image)

About Us

ICOD Action Network is a registered Non Governmental Organization operating in Lyantonde district Uganda, East Africa. The organization envisions a Uganda society empowered, free from disease and suffering and where human rights are observed. Our overall objective is to respond to socio-economic challenges in society like HIV/AIDS, high unemployment rates, insufficient health care, poor sanitation and famine. ICOD Action Network has continued to inspire individuals in Southwestern Uganda's poorest countries to find innovative and sustainable local solutions to end extreme poverty, hunger and diseases.

These individuals have demonstrated leadership, selflessness and passion to help their community break barriers to individual and community development and have worked with their communities to find lasting solutions independent from external support. We have continued to work with and train such leadership to move their communities forward. We believe that sustainable solutions to end hunger, extreme poverty, disease e.t.c are those developed from within communities because lasting solutions lie within communities. That's why we work with communities to create permanent solutions that can sustainably transform them Our approach has continued to inspire individuals and communities and has bred new leaders who have found lasting solutions for their own communities and replicated our work in hard-to-reach communities; that is how we are "ACTION NETWORK".

ICOD targets marginalized households of vulnerable children, youth, orphans, women and HIV/AIDS affected and infected people and supports them by extending health services, constructing houses, constructing pit latrines, constructing safe water tanks, providing material support, providing food aid during famine, providing planting seeds, domestic utensils, clothing and providing HIV/AIDS training and counseling to groups at high- risk of HIV/AIDS infection. The organization has also launched ICT and permaculture programs targeting rural farmer's groups.

Area of Service

ICOD's office is in Lyantonde district which is a new district which was created 2006 out of Rakai district. The district is found in south western Uganda, boarded by Rakai district in the South, Masaka district in the East, Kiruhura in the West and Sembabule in the North. The district is located 75 kilometers by road west of Masaka town and the coordinates of the district are: 00 25S, 31 10E. The district consists of 5 sub counties (Kinuuka, Kasagama, Lyantonde Rural, Mpumudde, Kaliiro and 1 town council (Lyantonde town council). In 2002, the population of Lyantonde District was estimated at about 66,000 with an annual population growth rate of 1.9%. It is estimated that in 2010, the population of Lyantonde District will be approximately 76,700. The current HIV prevalence, from the three Voluntary Counseling and Testing Centers, is estimated at 12 to 18% as compared to the current national average of 5.4% among adults which has affected all sectors of development.