1. Improving livelihoods
Through mobilising single parents into functional and productive group/individual units, SPAU seeks to empower single parents with skills, knowledge and working capital to engage in practical and sustainable service delivery projects, through which they can gain empowerment to address their socio-economic needs.
2. Fighting HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS is the major threat to development, economic growth and poverty alleviation in much of sub-Saharan Africa. SPAU seeks to break the HIV/AIDS-poverty vicious cycle by fighting HIV/AIDS, even as we implement development projects targeted at improving the socio-economic livelihoods of single parents. SPAU is also an active participant in the national and global battle against HIV/AIDS by engaging in various activities aimed at directly containing and preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS.
3. Advocacy and Lobbying change-makers on issues that affect single parents negatively in their communities
In many societies in Uganda, single parents are marginalised because of their status. This marginalisation extends beyond simple stigma. It involves single parents being denied their constitutional rights; such as the right to ownership of matrimonial property in cases of spouse death or separation, the right to custody of their children, the right to be heard and participate in their local community policy making. As a result, single parents -especially women- are sidelined during such important processes of decision making and their chances of being heard and issues that affect them negatively recognised and acted upon, is made slim. SPAU provides support and information to single parents with the aim of empowering them and enabling them to express their needs and choices. Through educating single parents, SPAU seeks to empower them to carry out advocacy and lobbying through the various chains of government, faith groups, and the general public so as to effect positive change in their favour.
Laying down new strategies: