Care and Assistance for Forced Migrants (CAFOMI) supports people affected by natural and human-made disasters, conflict and disease outbreaks in Uganda.

CAFOMI is a not-for-profit; non-partisan and non-governmental organization in Uganda registered by the Uganda NGO Board on 19^th March 2014 and incorporated as such on 13^th September 2013.

CAFOMI as a humanitarian organization aims at working effectively and efficiently to deliver international standard humanitarian services, during early emergency phase and post emergency to forced migrants within Uganda and beyond, living in dignity to acceptable international standards and contributing to the development of their host community.

In the years of CAFOMI’s existence, work in these areas of core focus for forcibly displaced persons have been successfully implemented under the stewardship of some key partners such as Humanitarian Initiative Just Relief Aid (HIJRA), Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Malteser I international (MI), International Organization for Migration (IOM), Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (CHF), Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

CAFOMI aims at strengthening and building more partnerships so as to carry out research on issues of humanitarian assistance that will facilitate issue-based advocacy with various stakeholders and explore long-term solutions for forced migrants from a practical point of action.

CAFOMI is a learning organization driven by the belief in professionalism, accountability, teamwork, respect for diversity and has developed partnerships with Government of Uganda, UN systems, international and national organizations and the private sector at various levels. CAFOMI supports participation and effective coordination to yield the expected results in humanitarian and development nexus.

CAFOMI is a leader in championing the localization agenda and therefore co-chairs the Steering Committee of Humanitarian Platform for Local and National Organizations which brings together all national organisations, including the Uganda Red Cross, in the humanitarian sector; represents national NGOs on the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF) – Steering Group (SG) and the Refugee Donor Partners Group (RDPG); a member of the Network for Empowered Aid Response (NEAR); member of Uganda National NGO Forum; as well as an active member of the Protection, WASH, Livelihoods, Energy and Environment working groups in the Uganda Refugee Response.

Our Approach During the process of project mobilization;

CAFOMI adopts a Rights based community participatory approach where Age, Gender and Diversity are mainstreamed to enhance self – help, self -sustainable approach through community involvement and plans to form volunteer groups in remote rural areas of Uganda. Human resource development is an essential part of our development work. This means ensuring that the community is trained and skilled, as well as organized, to maximize the potential of the community to take hold of its own development.

Sustainable development starts with us as members of the indigenous national NGO; we believe what our people lack is not knowledge but organization. For that reason, CAFOMI values collaborative works with partners and network to coalesce around the team of returnee Ugandan expatriates to engender a national capacity to respond to emergencies and development needs within the region.

CAFOMI works with grass root communities and forced migrants more especially women and youth through continuous interventions based on designed frameworks that incorporate the requirements projected by the communities and with the help of the communities by strategizing on public-private partnership.