About Us

Our Background

iCON was established in Uganda in 2014 following an initial incubation phase as a hybrid (center and community-based) Women and Young People’s Leadership Academy that commenced in 2009. iCON is steered by a leadership that has amassed over 50 years collective experience in organizational development, community development, agriculture, building women’s leadership, education, business entrepreneurship, social enterprise development, project management, health research, advocacy, training, youth, and women’s empowerment.

Our Strategy

We Employ the following strategies in our work:

Gender-Based Analysis Programming

Our Strategic Priorities

Over the next five years we aim to become a national voice to address the barriers to human capital development in general, children’s retention in school, women’s empowerment and effective parenting in order to ensure that no child is left behind.

Over the next five years we aim to become a national voice to address the barriers to human capital development in general, children’s retention in school, women’s empowerment and effective parenting in order to ensure that no child is left behind.

Our work will be guided by amongst others the Uganda National DevelopmentPlan 11 and 111, Uganda Vision 2040, the Uganda Education Act (2008), the Uganda Domestic Violence Act (2010), the Uganda Children’s Act (2016) and the Uganda Gender Policy (2017).