Help Age International, through their Ugandan Office provided financial and technical support to the Platform aimed at inspiring district leadership and technocrats to demand for social protection. The key achivement was the creation of “social protection action groups” in the 14 pilot districts of SAGE. The groups comprised religious leaders, community development officers, cultural leaders, and other opinion leaders, who were supported to conduct dialogue meetings with local government leadership, and conduct public dialogues to stimulate social protection debates among the general public and within district councils. They called for mainstreaming of social protection in district planning and budgeting processes.