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Map of Uganda & Project Locations
- To increase human rights awareness and voluntary actions among the local population.
- To improve the capacities of human rights institutions [UHRC, UAC and LC I&II courts].
- To promote UNDP policy dialogue and concrete human rights initiatives at the local level
- Falls within the UNDP/GoU CCF II.
- Uganda has had a history of human rights violations.
- Decentralisation policy of Government.
- Rights Based Approach [RBA] to Development.
- Millennium Development Goals.
- Community Focus.
- Capacity building of National Institutions.
- Human Rights Training Activities.
- Training of CBOs & NGOs on Human Rights
- Outreach Activities.
- Production of Advocacy Materials.
- Linking the community and relevant organisations.
- Strengthening the administration of local justice system.
- Enhancing networking among CBOs, NGOs, NIs, and UN agencies.
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A] Project Implementation Milestones
- Conducted over 40 outreach activities on the Amnesty Law.
- Designed and delivered 35 training sessions on human rights at the central, sub regional & parish level.
- Trained over 1000 members of the local council court on the administration of justice at the local level.
- Enhanced the outreach capacities of the three I/As
- Worked to bring services closer to the people.
§Enhanced confidence and trust among the population on the national institutional organisations.
- Enhanced the visibility of the I/As in the community.Streamlined & identified priority areas for intervention.
- Established a systematic documentation and reporting process for human rights abuses.
- Worked to establish a reporters’ database (UAC)
- Received and registered over 1500 reporters, and about 900 of them already given settlement packages
- Strengthened community based voluntary action groups-VAGS, PEER Groups and partnerships.
§Linked local populations with national HR institutions.
B] Volunteerism and Human Rights
HR Advocacy blends well with volunteerism as it entails:
- Self-sacrifice [undertaken for reasons other than financial gain]
- Commitment and free will or undertaken without coercion
- Service to others, and solidarity.
All this augurs well with the Project.
WHY?
1.Sustainability
2.Ownership.
3.Realising benefits of self help and voluntary action.
4.Community, individual confidence building & trust.
5.Promotion of community development.
6.Part of the project ’s exit strategy
C] Community Mobilisation
Voluntary Action Groups:[VAGS]
- Selected Community-Based Groups in communities .
- Imparted with skills for human rights education, promotion, mobilisation and observation.
- Linked to national institutions for human rights monitoring reporting and civic education.
- Selected and trained groups of volunteers at community level on legal procedures at grassroots level, human rights and civic education.
- Develop a network among community volunteers with mandated human rights bodies in their localities.
- Referral of community members to appropriate institutions for remedies
- Mediation-encourage community members to negotiate and settle disputes amicably.
- Civic Education & Sensitisation on human rights issues.
- Mobilisation & Networking-establish contacts with other organizations, groups and individuals for knowledge sharing and generate support for problems solving.
HR awareness, promotion, protection and civic education
- Human Rights Conceptualisation:
- What, How and Where human rights began
- Law Vs localized approaches
- Stakeholder building and engagement [commitment and trust].
- Enhanced information sharing, and knowledge management.
- Credible partnership building [brief-case CSOs or CBOs].
- Transparency [and hence duplication of activities or resources].
- Involvement & participation [amidst other tasks & financial interests].
- Visibility, flexibility and relevance.
- Volatile environment [political waves and good governance]
- Government commitment and support to HR observance and promotion [local HR instruments and institutions]
- Presence of local and international HR activism or activists and the largely “informed” general public [or collective self- efficacy].
- Vibrant channels of information flow [print and electronic media ]
- Voluntary Action is a social capital that cuts across social groups and present in all aspects of human activity.
- Volunteerism is a formidable resource ready to be tapped on and harnessed for development.
- Volunteers are considered neutral and thus trusted.
- The project is community-based and focused.
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