The Grassroots Innovations Uganda (GIU) was created on the realization that the challenges facing the rural communities are due to an information gap between the policy makers and these grassroots communities. The available information at policy level, and from research institutions, in most cases, does not reach these rural communities for implementation. There is need to provide access to appropriate information and use a participatory approach to identify and find solutions that will encourage the development of an informed and prosperous community.

GIU believes that in order to help improve rural communities whose potential has been buried in years of helplessness and hopelessness habits, the rural people have to be exposed to appropriate knowledge that will help open their minds to new ways of thinking about themselves and their rural status.

GIU has identified a number of information needs of rural communities as;