The idea of founding SRHR Alliance was inspired by the need to build stronger and well-coordinated movement of SRHR champions, civil society organizations and practitioners to respond to the growing sensitivity, complexity and magnitude of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) issues facing adolescents and young people in a culturally and religiously diverse country like Uganda.

The adolescents and young people in Uganda lack adequate control over their sexual and reproductive health due to restricted access to SRHR information and services. As a result, they have continued to be exposed to a number of SRHR challenges including STIs, teenage pregnancies, early marriages and related diseases. This is perpetuated by deeply entrenched social norms and practices that breed sexual and gender-based violence and require sustainable as well as coordinated approaches.

Yet the national and local governments have not, to date, fully guaranteed the realization of the rights all adolescents and young people to safely access high quality and equitable SRHR services without fear of stigma, harassment and discrimination. The Alliance therefore provides space for unified and joint actions towards transforming the negative SRHR policy and socio-cultural environment.

Diversity of the stakeholders working on SRHR and related issues all over Uganda presents incredible challenges for coordination and collaboration. The Alliance therefore provide space for a nation-wide and multi-stakeholder platform to facilitate learning, joint actions, evidence gathering and harmonization of interventions, among others.

The Alliance also provides opportunity and platform to jointly engage government agencies, CSOs, research institutions, cultural/religious institutions, private sector, and media to push the agenda of SRHR that is stronger, solid and intersectional, so that SRHR is mainstreamed into government policies and programs. This is to enable the most vulnerable and marginalized group namely adolescents, young people, key populations, women, and people with disability among others to exercise their SRHR without impediment and free from violence.