We use legal tools to make the right to food real.
An indigenous not-for-profit legal advocacy and action-research organisation, founded in Kampala in 2019.
Three statements we are held to.
A world where the right to adequate living for everyone is realised.
To promote social justice in food, agriculture and investment systems through strategic litigation, research, advocacy and community empowerment.
Integrity, innovativeness, social justice, equity and non-discrimination.
Where we concentrate.
Sustainable access to justice for adequate living rights.
Law and policy for healthy diets and prevention of NCDs.
Agroecology towards a sustainable local agri-food system.
What we are working towards.
To frame and promote adequate food, sustainable agriculture and investment justice as constitutional entitlements.
To promote social accountability at local and national level for adequate living rights.
To promote the justiciability of the right to adequate food, economic rights and livelihood rights.
To grow an organisation that operates in an effective, efficient, professional and accountable manner.
Two approaches, applied to everything.
Human Rights-Based Approach
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Human Rights-Based Approach
CEFROHT understands that unequal power relations and social exclusion deny people their human rights and keep them in poverty. We use a Human Rights-Based Approach to empower rights-holders to claim their rights and support duty-bearers in meeting their obligations.
We identify rights-holders, their legal freedoms and entitlements, and the obligations of the duty-bearers responsible for ensuring those rights are realised — then enforce a circle of accountability throughout the policy cycle, so that policies and programmes stay responsive to the people they affect.
Legal empowerment and social accountability
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Legal empowerment and social accountability
We employ legal empowerment, particularly for vulnerable groups, to secure adequate living rights. Systemic change comes from enabling marginalised communities to use the law, legal systems and legal services to protect and advance their own interests as citizens.
This fosters accountability through direct engagement of individuals, communities and civil society organisations. We collaborate with communities, duty-bearers and civil society to hold the state accountable — while encouraging government, media, the private sector and donors to support and respond to those efforts.
Need legal help but cannot afford it?
CEFROHT offers pro-bono representation to people facing land, food and livelihood rights violations. Tell us what happened and we will tell you honestly whether we can help.
Apply for pro-bono support