Empowering Civil Society for Inclusive Development
Uganda
- Objective: To strengthen civil society’s engagement of decision makers on human rights and Rule of Law issues
- Main activities:
- Capacity-enhancement: on among others; evidence gathering, reporting, advocacy
- Public Legal Education and Sensitization among communities as well as local and national civil society
- Evidence gathering/data collection: Monitoring of Human rights violations by civil society
- Data dissemination and communication adapted to the needs of different target groups; webinars, leaflets, social media and group chats.
- Multi-stakeholder dialogues: enhancing participation of different stakeholder groups linkages at different levels
- Advocacy: identifying pathways of change and developing and pursuing policy recommendations
- Legal aid: Legal advice and representation
- Strategic litigation: use of legal action in view of broad social or policy objectives.
- Expected results:
- Grass root organizations and CSOs improve their methods of engagement with duty-bearers
- CSOs and LASPs are able to accompany local populations in seeking remedy
- CSOs influence national and regional decision-makers to adopt positive reforms
- Project partners: Civic Response on Environment and Development (CRED), The Africa Centre for Energy and Mineral Policy (ACEMP)
- Geographical areas of implementation:
- Eastern Uganda, with a primary focus on Karamoja in the districts of Moroto, Amudat and Nakapiripirit.
- Western Uganda, with a primary focus on the Albertine and Rwenzori sub-region.
- Funding: Belgium Development Cooperation (DGD)
- Budget: 1,607,474.54 EUR
- Duration: 5 years (January 2022 – December 2026)
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