Health Financing Crisis
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Our Case for Change
Ardhi Law and Policy Initiative was born from a crisis the Kitezi landfill landslide which exposed deep systemic failures in land, food, health, and environmental governance. Communities were left without protection, rights, or support. That tragedy revealed what we already knew: these challenges are interconnected, and when one system fails, people’s lives and dignity are at risk.
We exist to make sure such neglect never happens again. Ardhi Law and Policy Initiative bridges the gap between community realities and national policy, turning grassroots needs into systemic solutions. By focusing on our five pillars agriculture, waste, disaster preparedness, health, and land governance, we work to ensure that resilience is built from the ground up, and that every Ugandan has the right to thrive in a just and healthy environment.
I have never believed that real change comes from the top it begins with the people who live through the challenges every day.
Counsel Nassir Mwanje Founder & Country DirectorAs a lawyer, land economist, and lecturer, I spent years teaching others how systems should work. But it took a tragedy to show me how deeply those systems fail when they do not serve the people they are meant to protect.
When the Kiteezi landfill collapsed in a devastating landslide, it was more than an environmental disaster it was a painful reminder of how fragile our systems are. The slide buried homes, destroyed livelihoods, and took lives. At first, it felt distant. Then I received a call: my own errand rider had lost his wife in that tragedy. Suddenly, policy failure wasn’t theoretical anymore it was personal.
That moment changed everything. It revealed how issues like poor waste management, unsafe settlements, weak land governance, and the absence of disaster preparedness are all connected and how those failures always fall hardest on the most vulnerable.
That is when I founded Ardhi Law and Policy Initiative to bridge the gap between policy and people, to move from the classroom to the community, and from theory to tangible action.
Today, Ardhi is driven by one mission: to build systems that protect, empower, and include everyone. We work to turn waste into opportunity, strengthen land rights, advance climate-smart agriculture, and expand access to clean water, healthcare, and resilience.
My purpose is to rebuild trust in the systems that should protect us and to ensure that justice lives not in documents, but in people’s daily lives.
We are not just shaping policy. We’re rewriting the story of resilience one life, one lesson, and one community at a time.