The Council for Economic Empowerment for Women of Africa (CEEWA)-Uganda chapter is a non- governmental, non-partisan and not for profit organization working to promote the economic empowerment of women in the development process. CEEWA was born at the fifth African NGO Forum held in Dakar, Senegal in 1994 in one of the workshops that observed that the economic policies were adversely impacting on women yet nothing much was being done to address the concerns. CEEWA was therefore formed to be a torchbearer for African Women Economic Empowerment with national chapters in different countries.

CEEWA-U was started in 1995 and traces its origin from the preparatory meetings for the UN Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing- China 1995. It was started with a membership comprising of women professionals with academic and working experience in economics, agriculture, banking, gender, statistics, business management and other disciplines related economic development whose vision was to follow up on the critical areas of development for the Beijing Platform of Action.

Mission: To promote the economic empowerment of women in the development process through advocacy, training, research and documentation and information dissemination

Vision: A Uganda in which women's aspirations, rights and productive potentials are fully recognized and mainstreamed in the framework of equitable and sustainable human development

Goal: To increase the level of women's access to and control over economic resources for Agricultural Enterprise development.

Objectives:

-To strengthen the capacity of decision-makers to integrate gender concerns in laws, policies and programmes.
-To provide a forum for women to discuss, share experiences and support activities that promote their participation in mainstream economic development polices and programmes.
-To facilitate widespread replication of micro-credit principles and standards that are sustainable and serve long term strategic and practical needs of women.
-To advocate for micro credit principles and standards that meet women's practical and strategic gender needs in a sustainable manner.
-To enhance and build professionalism in the day-to-day roles and responsibilities of women through decision-making including the establishment of an empowerment centre.
-To promote gender equity in agricultural extension service provision.
-To network with other institutions working towards the goal of creating gender equity in poverty eradication initiatives.
-To promote the institutional development of CEEWA-Uganda into a strong organization with the capacity to execute, monitor, document programs and mobilize funds.