Financial Assistance to the Legal Education Scholarship Programme



Contract partner: ILI - International Law Institute-Uganda (African Centre for Legal Excellence) Country: Subsahara-Afrika, regional/länderübergreifend Funding amount: € 153.867,00 Project start: 01.06.2004 End: 30.06.2005

Short Description:

Overall goal


Over the past years, Austria has been giving support to the International Law Institute - Uganda, Centre for Legal Excellence with the aim of building the capacity of lawyers in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA), who have often received insufficient training concerning practical skills thus rendering SSA-lawyers in a disadvantaged position compared to their Western counterparts. An external evaluation of the ILI, recently commissioned by the ADC, has underlined the importance of this training institution but, however, at the same time pointed out the continuing need for financial support. With this new project Austria is funding 78 scholarships for 13 different post graduate courses on commercial and governance subjects broadly related to private sector development as well as the strengthening of good governance and the rule of law. As a new component - compared to the two previous programs - 4 courses in French language with a focus on conflict resolution and peaceful coexistence, specifically targeted for Rwanda and Burundi, will be introduced.

project number 1960-00/2004
source of funding OEZA
sector Staatsführung & Zivilgesellschaft, allgemein
tied
modality
marker
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    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
  • Type of Aid – Aid modalities: classifies transfers from the donor to the first recipient of funds such as budget support, core contributions and pooled programmes and funds to CSOs and multilateral organisations, project-type interventions, experts and other technical assistance, scholarships and student costs in donor countries, debt relief, administrative costs and other in-donor expenditures.
  • Purpose/ sector code: classifies the specific area of the recipient’s economic or social structure, funded by a bilateral contribution.
  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.