CESCRA is a not for profit organization registered as a regional organization with the Uganda NGO Bureau. The organization operates spans across the region and is driven by the commitment to advancing the economic social cultural rights and gender equality in Africa to ensure that citizens especially the grassroots women and men enjoy their basic human rights amidst growing business and government developments.

CESCRA harmonizes the international and regional human rights laws with national reforms and strategies and harnesses the energies of existing national organizations and networks and links these to the growing population of grass root leaders to front the economic social cultural and women’s rights agenda.

CESCRA seeks to achieve the realization of legal, policy, administrative and institutional reforms and implementation, at grassroot, national, regional and global levels; strengthen awareness and visibility of economic social cultural rights at regional national and among the communities at the grassroot level, enhance the capacity and strategic networking of CSOs, government institutions and practices, establish a strong knowledge management base to inform learning and advocacy on economic social cultural rights of women and men and improve access to justice at the grass root level. We work on programs such as Women, land and property rights Program (WLHP), Right to Adequate Housing & Campaign Against Forced Evictions (RAHFE), Urban Safety and Security – Safer City Campaign, Right to Health, Water & Sanitation and education rights. In partnership with other organization, we are also working on environmental and climate justice.We put on a gender lens in all our programs but look for the women’s rights issues in the programs.

Currently we work in Uganda, in the Albertine region in the district of Hoima and Buliisa on issues of land in the mining and extractive sector taking keen consideration on women’s rights to land in the extractive.