AFARD

The Agency for Accelerated Regional Development (AFARD) is a local professional, not-for-profit, non-denominational non-governmental organization (NGO) formed in July 2000 by professional sons and daughters of West Nile. With its regional headquarters in Nebbi Town, AFARD is currently operating in the districts of Nebbi, Zombo, Yumbe, Arua, and Moyo in the West Nile sub-region of Uganda.

Afard’s formation was motivated by numerous reasons. First, West Nile is located in the poorest northern region of Uganda where 6 in 10 people (twice the national average) live below the daily US$ 1.25 standard. Second, many development interventions have been external to local context leaving behind physical structures and dysfunctional committees in place but a people hardly changed. Third, given the hitch of democratic centralism, the people are simply subjects and not citizens of the state. Finally, that many sons and daughters of the region prefer to work elsewhere (human resource flight) limited innovations and enthusiasms to work for self-development.

AFARD is registered with the NGO Board under the NGO-Registration Statute, 1989 as an NGO (Reg. No. S.5914/3753) and the Registrar of Companies under Companies Act as a Company Limited by Guarantee (Reg. No. 45170). Besides, AFARD is a member of many networks as are shown below:

• · Uganda Water Integrity Network (UWIN).
• · Uganda National NGO Forum;
• · Participatory Ecological Land Use and Management – Uganda Chapter (PELUM);
• · Uganda Water and Sanitation NGO Network (UWASNET);
• · Uganda National AIDS Services Organizations (UNASO).
• · District NGO Forum in Nebbi, Yumbe, and Moyo Districts; and
• · Nebbi AIDS Services Organization Network (NASON)