HOCADEO is empowering thousands of poor but active women to access financial services and enable them boost their small businesses in communities where they live. HOCADEO has contributed to this thematic area , through different Programmes and projects. The GWDP in Kagadi district promoted Hygiene in households through sensitizations and trainings which has helped Households have Kitchen refuse pits, Pit latrines, Hand washing facilities, Dish racks and kitchen utensils racks. The communities have also been sensitised on the dangers of HIV/AIDS and also encouraged couples to go for voluntary counselling and testing.

Through HSAP, HOCADEO has been able to promote proper nutrition by promoting the growing of vegetables through training households on the good practices of Backyard gardening and has encouraged them to keep healthy b eating greens as part of their daily meals.

Through Meals for Nutrition (MENU), HOCADEO has promoted the growing and eating of Iron rich beans, yellow maize and the Orange fleshed sweet potatoes in response to the high malnutrition cases identified in the Bunyoro sub region. This programme has benefitted residents of Masindi, Hoima, and Kakumiro districts where people were given the seeds and vines for growing.