General information
Title
Empowering civil society to engage decision makers on human rights and rule of law in Uganda
ID
XM-DAC-2-10-8242
CRS ID
2022008242
Start date
End date
Activity status
Implementation
Budget
€1.563.633
Actor
NGO Avocats sans frontières
Country
UGANDA
Sector
Government and civil society - Democratic participation and civil society
Policy markers
Disability 1
Gender 1
Environment 1
Climate: Mitigation 1
Climate: Adaptation 1
Good Governance 1
Aid type
Core support to NGOs, other private bodies, PPPs and research institutes
Priority partner country
Yes
Fragile state
Yes
Least developed country
Yes
Budgetline
54 20 356072 NGO Programs
Finance type
GRANT
Tied status
No
Flow type
ODA
Body
General
Strengthen civil society’s engagement of decision makers on human rights and Rule of Law issues Through civic participation, the outcome aims to operate a paradigmatic shift towards an approach to development grounded in the Rule of law and based on human rights. This shift is in turn expected to make socio economic development more inclusive and sustainable. The outcome draws on ASF’s prior realizations in Uganda, and is in line with ASF’s regional strategy for Eastern Africa. The outcome focuses on civil society organizations, but also offers ways of engagement with private companies, governmental bodies, judicial and security authorities. The program will work through three key result areas. Under Result 1 “Grass root organizations and CSOs improve their methods of engagement with duty-bearers”, it is expected that CSOs and grass root organizations will enhance their ability to act as relays between affected populations and the duty-bearers, in view of activating the latter in the search for solutions to justice issues encountered. Under result 2 “CSOs and LASPs are able to accompany local populations in seeking remedy”, the data collected in result 1 is mobilized in support of access to justice for the final beneficiaries. The result uses four main approaches: (1) a reinforcement of the pathways to remedies, through CSOs, more precisely through CSOS acting as Legal Aid Service Providers (LASP) in targeted areas; (2) a Public Legal Education program aiming at the legal empowerment of local populations; (3) an engagement with remedies through paralegals intervention and support to the penal chain coordination, and (4) an effort to increase the resilience of the CSOs. Under result 3: CSOs influence national and regional decision-makers to adopt positive reforms. The result operates at two different levels: (1) it seeks to feed policy-makers and civil society actors with analytical products to inform policy reforms; (2) it seeks to compel decision-makers to adopting reforms through the use of oversight mechanisms at national and regional levels.