Legal Aid Basket Fund



Contract partner: DANIDA GGO Liaison Office Country: Uganda Funding amount: € 500.000,00 Project start: 01.10.2004 End: 30.06.2008

Short Description:

Overall goal


This project aims at financing legal aid services through the provision of a joint basket fund.

Currently there are seven main non governmental organizations providing legal aid in Uganda. However, their attempts to provide legal aid services are hampered by scarcity of resources, thereby leaving out certain areas and groups of people. A consultancy commissioned in 2004, which was partly funded by Austria (project 1660-00/2001), conducted a baseline survey on legal aid. The survey outlined serious gaps in coverage as well as in quality of legal aid services. In more than half of Uganda's districts there is no legal aid provision at all yet some of these are the most inaccessible and heavily disadvantaged in several respects, for instance, by war (such as in North and North Eastern Uganda) or by poor transport facilities (such as Kalangala).


The joint basket fund pools resources of several donors, such as EU, Denmark, Ireland, Austria and Norway. Existing and potentially new providers will be encouraged to expand their activities to new geographical areas to provide the designed ¿minimal packages¿. The support to legal aid will build on trying to ensure minimum standards nation wide, with the addition of specific intensive support to special needs areas. As effective regulation of the sub-sector by the regulator (Uganda Law Council) is hampered by scarcity of funds and human resources funds from the basket will be used for strengthening the regulator as well as for provision of legal aid services by non governmental organizations.

project number 2286-00/2004
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.
  • 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.
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