Support to the Uganda Democratic Governance Facility (DGF)



Contract partner: Royal Danish Embassy - Uganda Country: Uganda Funding amount: € 2.500.000,00 Project start: 01.07.2011 End: 31.12.2017

Short Description:

Overall goal


The Democratic Governance Facility (DGF) seeks to address specific governance deficits that were identified in Uganda.

'Equitable growth, poverty reduction, rule of law and long-term stability in Uganda' is the objective of the Facility. The purpose is to strengthen democratisation, protect human rights, enhance access to justice, peaceful co-existence and improve accountability in Uganda.

Eight Development Partners have undertaken to establish the DGF which will work as a basket fund and will be managed by a special DGF Programme Management Unit.

The DGF will harmonise support to selected public institutions and civil society organisations. While complementing government efforts, the DGF will place particular emphasis on the role of non-state actors as drivers of change.

A human rights based approach will facilitate the mainstreaming of cross-cutting issues, among them gender mainstreaming, within the DGF.

The DGF will be based on lessons learnt from previous support and will address identified governance challenges through three separate but interlinked programme components: (i) Deepening Democracy, (ii) Rights, Justice and Peace, and (iii) Voice and Accountability.

Based on its Uganda Country Strategy, Austria will direct the financial contribution to component 2 on 'Rights, Justice and Peace'. The objective of this component is to empower people of Uganda, especially the poor, vulnerable and women through:

- strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights

- improved access to justice, including access to legal aid services

- promoting peace and reconciliation.


To achieve this, the DGF will strenghten the role of non-state actors and complement government efforts.

project number 2286-00/2011
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.
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  • 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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