The Uganda National Medical Alliance for Prisoners Support

Our mission is

To reduce reoffending, restore hope, and create safer communities by supporting former prisoners to reintegrate successfully into society through comprehensive support for linkage, referrals, and retention monitoring, ensuring seamless employment opportunities, accommodation, health, and personal well-being.

The Uganda National Medical Alliance for Prisoners’ Support (TUNMAPS) is a non-profit actor established in 2019 with the mandate of providing care and support to prisoners, their families, ex-offenders, and community members in Uganda. Other core values are promoting human rights, supporting remanded children and conducting operational research for policy development.

Vision:

Creating Safer, healthier Neighborhoods and Productive Citizens by increasing the success rates of returnees, transitioning safely from correctional and rehabilitative institutions into the community, enjoying their rights, and living to their full potential as law-abiding citizens

Goal

To facilitate the successful rehabilitation and reintegration into society by reducing recidivism and improving public safety by establishing a comprehensive system for social and economic transformation from incarceration centers to community life

What we do

• Civic education and mindset change
• Research
• Community and prisons led monitoring.
• Rehabilitation, social support and economic empowerment
• Referral, linkage, and retention in care
• Communication
• Health support
• Prevention of GBV and drug abuse

Target population

• Prisoners, their families and ex-offenders
• Children affected by parental incarceration, including those detained with their parents
• Juvenile offenders
• Refugees

Objectives

To develop reintegration pathways, referral tools, linkage registers, retention monitoring to facilitate seamless transitions from prison to community and ensure all released ex-offenders are linked to healthcare services, joined with their families and connected for entrepreneurship opportunities within 6 months of release for continuity of care and resettlement.

To conduct participatory research, civic education and community dialogues at national, district and parish levels to inform policy, public understanding, local planning and integration of reintegration support into National Development Plans (NDPs).

To strengthen capacity building, public welfare and eradicate poverty

To promote a climate-resilient and practical environment for offenders transitioning from prisons to communities through sustainable livelihoods and environmental conservation.

To establish monitoring, evaluation, and accountability mechanisms within local government structures to track reintegration outcomes, improve service delivery, and foster community acceptance of ex-offenders.