| Advocacy |
KCCC developed and implements a coherent advocacy strategy. We empower and work with communities to prioritize their advocacy needs, overcome the helplessness & powerlessness mentality, develop advocacy strategies, demand for their rights, create networks and strategic alliances with others to increase their bargaining power at local and national level. The focus is on addressing issues of HIV and mental health-related stigma, child rights protection, sexual and domestic violence, garbage disposal, access to equitable social and health services, and community participation in developing, implementation and monitoring of policies that affect them. Guided by values of love, caring, sharing, integrity and honesty and service, and non discrimination, we seek to overcome injustice. Success story KCCC participated in forums and coalitions that involved, engaged and influenced policy makers on issues of domestic violence. committees in the Ugandan Parliament specifically the Committee on Gender, Labour and Social Development, HIV/AIDS as well as the Uganda Women Parliamentarians Association (UWOPA) and shared information with them on domestic violence issues, its negative impact on the health, economic and political aspects of life, yet there is no law to address it. In these efforts, the Domestic Violence bill became law. This landmark piece of legislation sought to improve criminal justice and community-based responses to domestic violence in Uganda. The passage of the DVB in 2009, and its authorization in April 2010,has changed the landscape for victims who once suffered in silence. Victims of domestic violence have been able to access services, and a new generation of families and justice system professionals has come to understand that domestic violence is crime that our society will not tolerate. Picture (below): Dialogue and discussion is one of the ways we advocate for rights  \
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