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Annual Report 2021
Programmes, finances and governance for 2021.
Annual Report 2022
Programmes, finances and governance for 2022.
Advancing adequate living rights through judicial empowerment under Uganda’s Human Rights Enforcement Act 2019
How the Human Rights Enforcement Act can be used to resolve adequate living rights cases expeditiously.
Advancing the right to adequate food and nutrition in Uganda: a manual for legal and activist practice
A working manual for lawyers and organisers taking right to food cases and campaigns in Uganda.
Empowering communities to claim adequate living rights through legal education and advocacy
A practical guide for community legal education on adequate living rights.
Baseline report reveals critical gaps in rural Ugandan communities’ awareness and capacity to claim adequate living rights
Baseline findings on what rural communities know about their entitlements, and what stops them acting on that knowledge.
Human rights declarations and related voluntary guidelines: details of adoption and implementation in Uganda
What Uganda has adopted, what it has implemented, and the distance between the two.
Mandate, structures and practices of Africa’s regional and subregional organizations
A reference on how African regional bodies are constituted and where civil society can engage them on food systems.
Implementing evidence based food policies to combat Uganda’s non communicable disease crisis
Which food policy measures have the strongest evidence base, and what implementation in Uganda would require.
Advancing public health through mandatory front of package warning labels in Uganda’s food policy
The case for a mandatory rather than voluntary labelling regime, and the legal instruments available to deliver it.
The Fourth National Development Plan (NDPIV): accelerating socio economic transformation
CEFROHT's reading of NDPIV and where the right to adequate food and adequate living sit within it.
Industry resistance to front of pack warning labels in Uganda: a situational analysis
A mapping of the arguments, actors and tactics used to slow front of pack warning label regulation in Uganda, and what the evidence actually shows.
Legal approaches to NCD prevention in Africa: addressing NCD risk factors through laws and policies promoting healthy diets and physical activity
How law and policy across African jurisdictions can be used to reduce the risk factors behind non communicable disease, with a focus on diet and physical activity.
Annual Report 2023
The year the front of pack labels campaign began.
Annual Report 2024
A greater purpose for adequate living rights. Programmes, finances and governance.
Annual Report 2025
The full year, programme by programme, including what did not work.
Seed sovereignty: a legal mapping
Every Ugandan provision touching the saving, exchange and sale of seed, and where farmer managed systems sit within them.
Right to food litigation toolkit
A practical guide for Ugandan lawyers taking economic, social and cultural rights cases, with model pleadings.
Trans fats in the Ugandan food supply
Laboratory analysis of commonly consumed fats, oils and baked goods against the WHO best practice threshold.
EAC Agroecology Bill: explanatory memorandum
Clause by clause explanation of the model bill, prepared for the East African Legislative Assembly.
Front of pack warning labels: an evidence review
A review of labelling outcomes in Chile, Mexico, Israel and Peru, and what transfers to a Ugandan retail environment.
The Nutrient Profile Model, explained
What Uganda's signed Nutrient Profile Model contains, how the thresholds were set, and what has to happen before a label appears on a shelf.