Promoting civic engagement and social accountability in post conflict and recovery communities in Northern Uganda



Contract partner: UWONET - Uganda Women's Network Country: Uganda Funding amount: € 299.308,00 Project start: 01.04.2012 End: 31.03.2014

Short Description:

Overall goal


Northern Uganda (NU) has suffered immensely from the ravages of a war, which left nearly 2 million people displaced, and remains the poorest region in the country. Peace talks between the Ugandan government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), although a final agreement remains unsigned, resulted to a 90% return of communities to their original homes. As a consequence, the Peace, Recovery and Development Plan for NU (PRDP) 2009 – 2012 had been launched by the Government of Uganda. With support from the Austrian Development Cooperation UWONET monitored its implementation through different stakeholders in 2010 and 2011.

The current project aims at empowering citizens to participate in processes of managing public resources, e.g. from the PRDP and its successor PRDP II 2012 – 2015, and has a special focus on women and youth to demand for improved service delivery by the Local Governments in their communities through establishing a strong civil society and providing a wider information base.

It will be implemented in 4 Northern districts Kitgum, Lamwo, Pader, and Agago and benefit both individuals and groups which include Local communities, Civil Society and Local Government Officials.

Specific objectives towards the accomplishment of the goal and sub-goal of the project are:

• Facilitate establishment of vibrant civil society to influence community demand for improved service delivery

• Build the capacities and understanding of Local Government Councillors and officials on social accountability to foster transparency.

The expected results are:

1. Increased public awareness and knowledge on Government programmes, policies and financing

2. Increased interface for CSOs, Communities and Duty Bearers on Government Programmes for improved gender sensitive service delivery

3. Participatory and Consultative planning, budgeting, implementation and monitoring process at the Local Government level

4. Public institutions effectively responding to the needs of the community

project number 2636-00/2012
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.