Gender Capital for Peace Recovery and Development Plan (PRDP) Implementation in Northern Uganda



Contract partner: UWONET - Uganda Women's Network Country: Uganda Funding amount: € 287.130,00 Project start: 01.12.2009 End: 31.12.2011

Short Description:

Overall goal


Northern Uganda has been torn by war and insecurity for over 20 years caused by the conflict between the Lord's Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda. While peace has prevailed for the last three years, the region remains the poorest in the country. As a consequence, the Government of Uganda has launched the Peace, Recovery and Development Plan (PRDP) as a commitment to stabilize and recover the North through a set of coherent programmes. One main challenge in PRDP implementation though is the fact that there is limited awareness of the gender needs and gaps.

The overall objective of this project is to meet gender needs of women in Northern Uganda by increasing women's visibility and efficiency in the implementation and monitoring of the PRDP. The project specifically targets to improve the leadership and oversight capabilities of women in Pader and Kitgum Districts to ensure that local governments are gender sensitive in their planning and implementation of PRDP projects.

This shall be achieved by building the technical capacities of women councillors, women groups and women civil servants in the areas of participatory planning and budgeting, rights based approach, budget cycle, gender budgeting, social accountability, monitoring and evaluation tools, lobbying and advocacy, leadership skills and networking.

Direct beneficiaries of the project shall be approximately 2,194 participants drawn from the national level, upper and lower local government administrative units and women groups in Pader and Kitgum districts. Moreover, through the use of radio programmes, the total number of beneficiaries being reached by the project is expected to be over 3 million people in Uganda as a whole.

The project is a direct contribution to UN-Security Council Resolutions 1325, 1820, 1888 and 1889 (resolutions on women and peace and security). Furthermore, the project will contribute to the achievement of MDG3 on Gender Equality and Women Empowerment.

project number 2636-00/2009
source of funding OEZA
sector Staatsführung & Zivilgesellschaft, allgemein
tied
modality
marker
  • Policy marker: are used to identify, assess and facilitate the monitoring of activities in support of policy objectives concerning gender equality, aid to environment, participatory development/good governance, trade development and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health. Activities targeting the objectives of the Rio Conventions include the identification of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, and desertification.
    • 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.
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  • 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.
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