Global Forum for Development - GLOFORD (Uganda)

Global Forum For Development-GLOFORD Uganda is a not for profit faith based Youth serving and youth focused grass-rooted, human rights, transformative leadership, community empowerment organization driving sustainable development in Northern Uganda through holistic development models driven by partnership, collaborations and knowledge transfer and sharing at local, sub national, regional, continental and global levels.

This value based, no excuse leadership and development organization is transforming the knowledge and development discourse in the region by mobilizing, educating and refocusing young elites and their community members to revolutionize community development from the lens of people driven transformative leadership.

GLOFORD Uganda was first conceived in 2008 by Mr. Morris Chris Ongom who later shared the burden of contributing to post war development of Northern Uganda through youth and community organizing with his young wife Susan Ongom after their marriage in 2009. They later agreed to talk to like-minded young people who later joined the organization which was legally registered as a Community Based Organization (CBO) on 7th April 2010 with Lira District Local Government and later GLOFORD was registered as a national NGO with Uganda National NGO Bureau on 27th March 2015.