Activities

Explore MAHIPSO community activities, outreach moments, campaigns, clinic work and learning events across Greater Masaka.

What We Do

From healthcare to economic empowerment.

MAHIPSO works across interconnected areas that enable communities to live healthier, safer, more dignified and empowered lives.

Activity Domains

HIV, Health & Wellbeing

Promoting community-centred access to prevention, testing, treatment, care and wellbeing support.

MAHIPSO places health at the centre of its 2025-2029 strategy. The organisation recognises that Structurally Excluded Persons can encounter stigma, discrimination, violence, gender-related barriers and human-rights barriers when seeking HIV and other healthcare services. MAHIPSO therefore prioritises accessible, non-discriminatory and community-centred healthcare alongside outreach, peer support, referrals, psychosocial support and health information.

HIV Prevention Services

MAHIPSO works to strengthen HIV prevention among Structurally Excluded Persons and other communities it serves through community engagement, health information, appropriate healthcare commodities, peer-led approaches and linkages to relevant prevention services.

The organisation's approach recognises that effective HIV prevention goes beyond information alone. It requires trusted community relationships, accessible services, supportive environments and action to address the stigma, discrimination and human-rights barriers that can prevent people from accessing healthcare.

HIV Testing Services

HIV testing forms part of MAHIPSO's broader HIV/AIDS health-service package. Through its health-service delivery approach, MAHIPSO works to strengthen community access to appropriate HIV services and support connections to prevention, treatment and care.

Testing-related website information should ultimately be aligned with the exact services currently available through the MAHIPSO Clinic/DICE and its referral partners before specific testing procedures are advertised.

HIV Treatment & Care Support

MAHIPSO supports efforts to ensure that people who require HIV treatment and care can remain connected to appropriate services.

Its strategic approach places particular emphasis on retention in care, non-discriminatory healthcare, community engagement and peer-supported models. MAHIPSO also works with healthcare providers and other health intermediaries to strengthen service access and continuity of care.

Adherence Support

MAHIPSO uses adherence support groups and peer models as part of its health-service delivery approach. These community-centred approaches are intended to strengthen continued engagement with healthcare and provide supportive environments where community members can receive appropriate information and support.

TB Services

MAHIPSO's Clinic and Drop-In Centre model includes TB within its comprehensive package of health services. Through its integrated health approach, MAHIPSO seeks to strengthen access to appropriate information, services and referral pathways while ensuring that communities facing barriers to mainstream healthcare are not left behind.

Malaria Services

Malaria is also included within the comprehensive health-service package identified for MAHIPSO Clinics and Drop-In Centres. MAHIPSO integrates malaria-related interventions into its wider community-health approach, helping connect the communities it serves with appropriate health information and services.

Sexual & Reproductive Health and Rights - SRHR

MAHIPSO promotes access to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights services as part of its commitment to comprehensive and inclusive healthcare. SRHR is embedded both in MAHIPSO's mission and in its Health Service Delivery programme.

Family Planning Services

Family planning is specifically identified within MAHIPSO's planned SRHR interventions. Through this work, MAHIPSO seeks to support access to family-planning information and services as part of a broader approach to sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Mental Health Support

MAHIPSO recognises mental health as an important component of comprehensive healthcare and identifies mental-health services and psychosocial support within its 2025-2029 Health Service Delivery programme.

Gender-Based Violence & Intimate Partner Violence Interventions

MAHIPSO incorporates GBV and IPV interventions within its Health Service Delivery programme as part of its broader commitment to health, safety, dignity, human rights and service access without violence, discrimination or exclusion.

Psychosocial Support

MAHIPSO's health strategy specifically calls for the provision of psychosocial support alongside physical and virtual community engagement. Psychosocial support complements clinical and community interventions by recognising the emotional and social dimensions that can affect health, wellbeing and continued engagement with care.

Health Commodities Distribution

MAHIPSO seeks to scale up the distribution of key healthcare commodities as part of its community-centred Health Service Delivery programme, helping bring appropriate health resources closer to communities that may encounter barriers accessing mainstream services.

Health Information & Education

Providing health information is an explicit component of MAHIPSO's Clinic and Drop-In Centre approach. MAHIPSO uses community engagement, peer models, outreach and digital channels to strengthen access to relevant health information and support communities to engage more effectively with available services.

Harm Reduction Referrals

MAHIPSO's comprehensive health-service package includes referrals for harm-reduction services. The organisation's model incorporates referral pathways and partnerships that can connect community members with appropriate providers.

Clinic, DICE & Community Outreach

Providing friendly service points and outreach models that bring confidential support closer to communities.

MAHIPSO combines facility-based healthcare with community and peer-led approaches. The Strategic Compass specifically identifies MAHIPSO Clinics and Drop-In Centres, community engagement, outreach, door-to-door services, peer models, health commodities, health information and referrals as components of this approach.

MAHIPSO Clinic Services

The MAHIPSO Clinic provides an important platform through which the organisation advances its Health Service Delivery mandate.

The Strategic Compass identifies the MAHIPSO Clinic as an accredited Key Populations-serving health facility and envisages MAHIPSO Clinics providing a comprehensive package covering HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria services, adherence support, peer models, health commodities, health information and referrals.

Drop-In Centre - DICE

MAHIPSO's Drop-In Centre forms part of its community-centred service-delivery infrastructure. The DICE can be presented publicly as a supportive point through which communities engage with MAHIPSO, access appropriate information and support, participate in peer approaches and connect with available health and referral services.

Because the Strategic Compass itself uses the term Drop-In Centres but does not define the acronym DICE, the organisation should confirm its preferred formal expansion before that acronym is explained publicly.

Community Health Outreach

MAHIPSO takes health interventions beyond the walls of its facilities through community outreach. Its Strategic Compass commits the organisation to stepping up outreach as part of efforts to strengthen retention in care and improve access to non-discriminatory healthcare for communities that may experience barriers accessing mainstream health facilities.

Door-to-Door Services

MAHIPSO identifies door-to-door approaches as another mechanism for extending its health-service delivery closer to communities. This approach complements facility-based services and community outreach and reflects MAHIPSO's broader commitment to meeting communities in environments where they can more readily access information and appropriate support.

Peer-Led Health Support

Peer models are integrated into MAHIPSO's approach to community healthcare. By strengthening the participation and capacity of peers, MAHIPSO seeks to create trusted connections between communities, health information and available services.

Healthcare Referrals & Linkages

MAHIPSO recognises that comprehensive care depends on effective relationships between communities and a wider network of service providers. The organisation therefore incorporates referral pathways into its health-service approach and seeks to nurture partnerships with health officials, health intermediaries and public and private healthcare providers.

Digital Health

Using digital tools to strengthen health-service delivery, patient outcomes and healthcare management.

Bringing Community Health Into the Digital Age

MAHIPSO's 2025-2029 strategy deliberately integrates technology into health-service delivery through telehealth, digital communication, healthcare digitalisation, MAHI-Connect and health-data management.

MAHI-Connect

MAHI-Connect is MAHIPSO's Digital E-Health Solution, designed to enhance the organisation's overall health-service delivery, improve patient outcomes and support better healthcare management.

MAHIPSO intends to scale up the platform as part of its effort to ensure that vulnerable populations receive timely and comprehensive care.

MAHI-Connect should therefore be positioned as part of a larger ecosystem connecting MAHIPSO's physical healthcare, community outreach and digital-health strategy rather than simply as a standalone mobile application.

Telehealth

MAHIPSO intends to invest in telehealth to extend the reach of its Health Service Delivery programme. Telehealth forms part of the organisation's strategy for harnessing technological developments in health and complementing physical community engagement with appropriate remote and digital approaches.

Digital Community Engagement

MAHIPSO's digital-health direction includes the use of digital communication channels such as mobile applications, WhatsApp, email and social media. These platforms are intended to complement physical engagement and provide additional ways of reaching and engaging communities around health.

Digitalisation of Healthcare

Digitalisation of healthcare is explicitly identified as one of MAHIPSO's Health Service Delivery interventions. Through digital transformation, the organisation seeks to strengthen how healthcare services and information are managed and delivered as part of its wider commitment to innovation and responsive community programming.

Health Data Management

The Strategic Compass identifies Integrated Key Population Information System (IKIS) Health Data Management within MAHIPSO's Health Service Delivery investments.

This reflects the organisation's commitment to strengthening the management and use of health information as part of effective service delivery. The Compass does not explicitly define IKIS as a MAHI-Connect module, so the website should present them as related areas of MAHIPSO's wider digital-health investment unless MAHIPSO confirms their technical integration.

Social Inclusion & Human Rights

Creating safer communities where people can participate, belong and live with dignity.

Creating Safer Communities With Dignity

MAHIPSO advances social inclusion by creating safer spaces, strengthening public awareness and promoting the rights and dignity of Structurally Excluded Persons.

The organisation recognises that exclusion, stigma, discrimination and violence can limit access to health services, economic opportunities, justice and public participation. Its social inclusion work therefore connects community support with rights awareness, advocacy, documentation and stakeholder engagement.

Safe Spaces

MAHIPSO supports safe and welcoming spaces where community members can access information, build confidence, participate in peer support and connect with appropriate services without fear of judgement or exclusion.

Public Awareness

Public awareness activities help communities, leaders and service providers better understand the needs, rights and lived realities of Structurally Excluded Persons. This work contributes to more respectful, informed and inclusive community environments.

Human Rights Promotion

Human rights are central to MAHIPSO's mission. The organisation promotes dignity, equality and access to justice by supporting community knowledge, referrals, advocacy and engagement with relevant duty bearers.

Social Inclusion Advocacy

MAHIPSO works to influence attitudes, systems and practices that exclude vulnerable communities. This includes engaging stakeholders, building alliances and promoting approaches that reduce stigma and discrimination.

Knowledge Generation & Management

The organisation documents community experiences and programme learning so that advocacy, service delivery and stakeholder engagement are informed by evidence and lived realities.

Community Voice & Agency

MAHIPSO's inclusion work is designed to help communities speak for themselves, participate in decisions and shape responses that affect their health, safety, rights and wellbeing.

Economic Justice & Livelihoods

Building opportunity, independence and sustainable livelihoods because health and economic wellbeing are connected.

Engagement With Social-Economic Actors

MAHIPSO uses high-level meetings and engagements with social-economic actors to strengthen the participation and visibility of Structurally Excluded Persons within economic-development discussions and opportunities.

Through these engagements, MAHIPSO seeks to build relationships with institutions and actors that can contribute to greater economic inclusion, while creating opportunities for communities to engage with the systems and programmes that influence their economic wellbeing.

Economic Partnerships & Networks

MAHIPSO recognises that sustainable economic empowerment requires collaboration with organisations, institutions and networks working on economic justice, livelihoods and financial inclusion.

The organisation therefore seeks to establish and strengthen strategic partnerships and networks with economic-justice actors that can expand knowledge, opportunities, resources and connections available to the communities it serves.

Economic Development Strategy

MAHIPSO intends to develop and roll out an Economic Development Strategy for Structurally Excluded Persons.

This strategy is intended to provide a more structured framework for the organisation's economic-justice interventions and support its vision of communities that are increasingly economically empowered, informed and able to participate in economic opportunities.

Leadership, Advocacy & Community Voice

Building leadership, amplifying community voices and supporting collective action for change.

Building Leadership. Amplifying Voices. Shaping Change

MAHIPSO's Community Voice and Visibility Programme Domain is designed to build the power, voice and agency of Structurally Excluded Persons so that communities can advocate for their own rights.

The programme recognises that sustainable change requires communities not only to receive services but also to organise, participate, lead and influence decisions affecting their lives.

Transformative Leadership Development

MAHIPSO invests in developing the leadership capabilities of Structurally Excluded Persons. Through tailored capacity-enhancement approaches, the organisation seeks to strengthen confidence, knowledge, participation and leadership so that community members can take active roles in shaping their communities and influencing issues that affect them.

This directly supports MAHIPSO's strategic objective of enhancing the leadership, participation and agency of MAHIPSO Peers and Structurally Excluded Persons.

Functional Adult Literacy

Functional adult literacy is identified as one of the approaches through which MAHIPSO intends to support transformative leadership development.

The intervention contributes to strengthening foundational knowledge and capabilities that can enable community members to participate more effectively in leadership, advocacy, livelihoods and other aspects of community life.

Change Makers Fellowship

The Change Makers Fellowship forms part of MAHIPSO's transformative leadership-development approach. The Fellowship is positioned within the Strategic Compass as a mechanism for developing leadership among Structurally Excluded Persons and contributing to a stronger generation of active and engaged community leaders.

The Compass does not provide the Fellowship's duration, curriculum or eligibility criteria, so those details should only be added to the website once MAHIPSO confirms them.

TUMBIIZA - Advocacy

MAHIPSO identifies TUMBIIZA as an intervention focusing on advocacy, stakeholder mapping and nurturing and sustaining strategic partnerships for advocacy.

Through TUMBIIZA, MAHIPSO seeks to strengthen its advocacy ecosystem by understanding relevant stakeholders, building relationships and creating stronger pathways through which community priorities and concerns can be advanced.

AWAMU - Progressive Social Movement Building

AWAMU is MAHIPSO's strategic intervention focused on progressive social movement building. It reflects MAHIPSO's commitment to collective organisation and community power by strengthening the ability of communities to connect, organise and work together around shared priorities and aspirations.

Community Advocacy

MAHIPSO works to strengthen the ability of Structurally Excluded Persons to advocate for their own rights and interests. Rather than speaking only on behalf of communities, MAHIPSO's strategic approach seeks to build the voice, power and agency of community members themselves.

Stakeholder Mapping & Engagement

MAHIPSO identifies stakeholder mapping and engagement as important components of its advocacy approach. Understanding the institutions, leaders, networks and decision-makers that influence community outcomes enables MAHIPSO and the communities it works with to develop more strategic relationships and advocacy approaches.

Movement Building

MAHIPSO's Community Voice and Visibility programme seeks to strengthen collective organisation among Structurally Excluded Persons. Movement building supports communities to work together, strengthen solidarity, build collective voice and engage more effectively around shared health, human-rights, social and economic priorities.

This approach is closely aligned with MAHIPSO's Theory of Change, which places community capacity, unity and collective organisation at the centre of sustainable change.

Campaigns, Events & Community Action

Bringing communities and partners together around health, rights, solidarity and action.

Turning Awareness Into Collective Action

MAHIPSO works with communities, local governments and strategic partners to undertake joint campaigns and events that promote health, human rights, community participation and social change.

The Strategic Compass specifically identifies several campaigns, commemorations, medical activities and stakeholder events within the Community Voice and Visibility programme.

Joint HIV/AIDS Campaign

The Joint HIV/AIDS Campaign provides a platform for MAHIPSO, communities and stakeholders to mobilise around HIV-related priorities.

It forms part of MAHIPSO's broader commitment to strengthening HIV prevention, community engagement and access to health services while building partnerships for coordinated action.

Medical Camps

MAHIPSO collaborates with relevant stakeholders on medical camps designed to bring healthcare interventions closer to communities. Medical camps complement the organisation's Clinic/DICE, outreach and referral approaches and provide additional opportunities for community engagement around health.

Community Outreaches

Community outreach enables MAHIPSO to take its work beyond its physical facilities. Through outreach activities, the organisation can engage communities more directly around health information, available services, community priorities and other programme interventions.

Footprints Summit

The Footprints Summit is identified in the Strategic Compass among MAHIPSO's joint events under Community Voice and Visibility. It can therefore be presented on the website as one of MAHIPSO's strategic convening initiatives.

The Strategic Compass does not provide sufficient detail about its format, participants or thematic focus to support a more specific description; those details should come from MAHIPSO's programme records.

16 Days of Activism

MAHIPSO participates in the 16 Days of Activism as part of its joint campaigns and community engagement. The activity complements the organisation's work on gender-based violence, human rights, community voice and social inclusion.

International Women's Day

MAHIPSO identifies International Women's Day among the important international observances around which it undertakes joint events. These activities provide opportunities for engagement around issues relevant to women's rights, participation, wellbeing and empowerment.

Human Rights Commemorations

MAHIPSO works with local governments and other partners to commemorate key international human-rights days. These activities create opportunities to increase awareness, strengthen community voice, engage stakeholders and reinforce the organisation's broader commitment to dignity, inclusion and fundamental human rights.

Open Day Court Sessions

The Strategic Compass identifies Open Day Court Sessions with the Judiciary among MAHIPSO's joint activities. These engagements form part of the organisation's broader approach to strategic partnerships, community participation and engagement around justice and human rights.

Capacity Building & Community Education

Equipping communities with the knowledge, skills and confidence to lead their own change.

Equipping Communities to Lead Their Own Change

Capacity enhancement is embedded throughout MAHIPSO's strategic approach.

The organisation seeks to identify, mobilise and organise Structurally Excluded Persons and equip them with the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to participate in economic opportunities, leadership and community development. It also specifically aims to enhance the leadership, participation and agency of MAHIPSO Peers through tailored capacity-enhancement programmes.

Peer Capacity Building

MAHIPSO invests in strengthening the capacity of its community peers. Through tailored learning and capacity-enhancement activities, peers can develop the knowledge, skills and confidence required to participate more effectively in community engagement and MAHIPSO's wider programmes.

Leadership Training

Leadership development is an important part of MAHIPSO's Community Voice and Visibility programme. MAHIPSO seeks to develop active and engaged community members who can participate meaningfully in their communities and contribute to shaping sustainable and resilient futures.

Advocacy Capacity Building

MAHIPSO strengthens community capacity to participate in advocacy and stakeholder engagement. This work complements TUMBIIZA, movement building and other Community Voice and Visibility interventions by strengthening the knowledge and confidence required for communities to articulate their priorities and engage relevant stakeholders.

Community Education

Community education supports MAHIPSO's work across health, human rights, social inclusion and economic justice. By strengthening access to relevant knowledge and information, MAHIPSO seeks to enable communities to make informed choices, participate in programmes and better understand issues and opportunities affecting their lives.

Skills Development

MAHIPSO's strategic objectives include equipping Structurally Excluded Persons with knowledge, skills and attitudes that can support participation in economic opportunities. Skills development therefore forms an important bridge between community empowerment and the organisation's Economic Justice objectives.

Partnerships & Stakeholder Engagement

Working with institutions, communities and stakeholders to build sustainable change together.

Sustainable Change Is Built Together

Partnership and Collaboration is one of MAHIPSO's six core organisational values.

The organisation works within a broad ecosystem involving government, local authorities, development partners, UN agencies, health providers, community organisations, networks, academia, media, private sector actors and other stakeholders.

Government Engagement

MAHIPSO engages Government of Uganda ministries, departments and agencies relevant to its work. The Strategic Compass specifically identifies institutions including the Ministry of Health, Uganda AIDS Commission, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Judiciary and Uganda Police within MAHIPSO's stakeholder ecosystem.

Local Government Engagement

As an organisation rooted in Greater Masaka, MAHIPSO places significant emphasis on relationships with local governments. These relationships support coordination, advocacy, joint campaigns, community engagement and the implementation of programmes across the region.

Health Provider Partnerships

MAHIPSO seeks to nurture strategic partnerships with health officials, health intermediaries and public and private healthcare providers. These relationships are particularly important for strengthening healthcare access, referral pathways and comprehensive service delivery.

Civil Society Collaboration

MAHIPSO collaborates with community-based organisations, NGOs, human-rights organisations, SRHR organisations, networks and movements working across related areas. Collaboration enables organisations to combine expertise, strengthen referral and advocacy networks, undertake joint initiatives and expand collective impact.

Development Partnerships

The Strategic Compass identifies UN agencies, development partners, funders and donor networks among MAHIPSO's key stakeholder groups. These relationships contribute to the partnerships, learning, technical collaboration and resourcing required to advance MAHIPSO's strategic priorities.

Academia & Research Collaboration

MAHIPSO identifies academia, research institutions and think tanks among the stakeholders with whom it seeks to influence, partner and collaborate. Such relationships can support evidence generation, knowledge exchange, learning and the development of more responsive community programming.

Media Engagement

Media platforms form part of MAHIPSO's wider stakeholder ecosystem. Engagement with media can complement public awareness, community visibility and advocacy efforts by helping bring relevant issues and community perspectives into wider public conversations.

Private Sector Engagement

MAHIPSO also identifies the private sector as a stakeholder within its strategic ecosystem. Private-sector relationships are particularly relevant to MAHIPSO's broader ambitions around economic justice, financial inclusion, partnerships and sustainable community development.

Research, Knowledge & Learning

Turning community experience into evidence, action, knowledge sharing and innovation.

Turning Community Experience Into Evidence and Action

Knowledge generation and management are explicitly identified within MAHIPSO's Social Inclusion programme, while the organisation's institutional ambition is to become a Centre of Excellence for programming, knowledge transfer, learning and innovation relating to Structurally Excluded Persons.

Knowledge Generation

MAHIPSO seeks to generate knowledge that strengthens understanding of the realities and priorities of Structurally Excluded Persons. Evidence generated through programmes and community engagement can contribute to stronger programme design, advocacy, stakeholder engagement and organisational learning.

Knowledge Management

MAHIPSO recognises that knowledge must not only be generated but also appropriately organised, retained and shared. Knowledge management enables programme experience, community perspectives and organisational learning to contribute to future interventions and decision-making.

Community-Centred Research

Research provides an opportunity to strengthen evidence around issues affecting the communities with whom MAHIPSO works. The website should describe specific studies only where MAHIPSO has actually undertaken them; the Strategic Compass establishes the broader commitment to knowledge generation but does not provide a catalogue of completed research.

Documentation & Learning

MAHIPSO can document programme experiences, emerging lessons and community perspectives as part of its commitment to learning and knowledge transfer. This supports institutional memory and enables useful lessons to inform future programming.

Knowledge Sharing

MAHIPSO seeks to contribute to knowledge transfer and learning by sharing appropriate evidence, lessons and programme experiences with communities, partners and other stakeholders.

Innovation

Innovation is embedded in MAHIPSO's institutional ambition and is also visible through investments such as MAHI-Connect, telehealth and healthcare digitalisation. The organisation's longer-term goal is to strengthen its position as a centre for programming, knowledge transfer, learning and innovation.

Institutional Development & Resilience

Building a strong, responsive and sustainable organisation for lasting community impact.

Building a Strong Organisation for Sustainable Community Impact

MAHIPSO recognises that achieving ambitious community outcomes requires a strong, responsive and sustainable institution.

Its 2025-2029 Strategic Compass therefore establishes Institutional Development and Resilience as a dedicated strategic priority intended to help MAHIPSO consciously manage its growth, strengthen partnerships and resourcing, consolidate gains and build sustainable institutional models.

Governance

MAHIPSO prioritises maintaining robust governance systems as the foundation for responsible institutional leadership and organisational development.

Human Resources

Strengthening human resources is a dedicated management priority intended to support MAHIPSO's ability to effectively deliver its growing mandate.

Safety, Security, Wellness & Healing Justice

MAHIPSO recognises safety, security, wellness and healing justice as important components of institutional resilience. This priority reflects the need to sustain an organisation and people capable of operating effectively within challenging and changing environments.

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning - MEAL

MAHIPSO seeks to establish and maintain robust Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning systems. MEAL provides an institutional foundation for tracking programme implementation, strengthening accountability, generating learning and improving future decision-making.

Financial Management & Accountability

Maintaining robust financial and accountability systems is one of MAHIPSO's seven institutional management priorities. Strong systems are essential to institutional sustainability, responsible resource management and confidence among communities and partners.

Resource Mobilisation

MAHIPSO identifies strengthened resource mobilisation as essential to its long-term resilience. The organisation seeks to strengthen partnerships and resourcing while developing sustainability models capable of supporting its work and future growth.

Communications, Branding & ICT

Robust Communications, Branding and Information Communication Technologies constitute MAHIPSO's seventh institutional management priority. This creates a strong strategic basis for investments such as the new MAHIPSO website, digital communication infrastructure and other technology that can strengthen visibility, engagement and organisational effectiveness.