Despite of the largest oil, gas and minerals deposits, forests, lakes, rivers as well as wildlife and other natural resources which are found in abundance within this region, local communities who depend on these ecological systems are often being disregarded by corporations and governments.

Human Rights Defenders and Land Rights Activists emerged and nevertheless, their work is plagued by threats, assaults, intimidation, arbitrary-arrests, detention, surveillance and closure of civic space which goes unreported in most cases because of lack of protection mechanisms and isolation of the communities from the capital city of Kampala where large NGO’s are headquartered.

Ngetha Media Association for Peace is a small not- for-profit indigenous led advocacy organisation established in 2015 to advocate for better standards of living, respect of human rights and protection of environmental resources.