About Us

Founded in 1995, National Women Association for Social and Education Advancement (NWASEA) was born out of women's frustration of their low status and self esteem.

In the fight against illiteracy, poverty and diseases, women ranked the lowest in sub-Saharan African.

20 women came together and founded NWASEA with the emphasis of over coming gender inequalities in social, economic, political and cultural spheres of life thus emancipation and empowerment in a manner that enables the poor, the neglected and marginalized members of the community to be at the centre of production and target for advocacy and decision making processes.

NWASEA is registered with the United Nations Civil Society database.

The German Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association (IIZ/DVV) cited NWASEA as an example of needs-based programmes with self-organized women's groups, covering food security, environmental protection, health care, literacy and legal issues.

In partnership with the Foundation for Sustainable Development (FSD) and Rice University, NWASEA conducted participatory action research on early girl child marriage in Luuka District.

Since 2022, NWASEA is an official partner of the Kroc IPJ Uganda NextGen initiative at the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego, working on the elimination of gender-based violence in Iganga District. The initiative emerged from the Women Waging Peace network, an international community of peacebuilding experts committed to ending cycles of violence.