International Development Law Organization

Uganda

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Uganda has made much progress in reducing poverty and promoting stability in past years, particularly through improvements on several justice-related indicators. Despite these gains, the justice sector still faces significant challenges relating to funding and capacity, public perceptions of pervasive corruption, inaccessibility of services for the poor sections of the population, low quality and sustainability of the legal aid and information services, costliness and slow speeds of dispute resolution, among others. These challenges have negatively affected citizens’ confidence in the formal system leading people to resort to other means to seek recourse and may also increase the likelihood of violence and further corruption. There is a therefore a need for effective interventions to enhance the reach, quality and sustainability of access to justice in Uganda.

UGANDA: Enhancing Access to Quality and Sustainable Legal Aid Services for the Marginalized and Vulnerable Communities in Uganda

Building on results achieved through previous programming, this sub-project aims to strengthen access to justice for the vulnerable and marginalized communities in Uganda. In order to increase the ability of vulnerable and marginalized persons to exercise and claim their rights, the Uganda Law Society (ULS) is conducting a series of community awareness-raising activities on legal rights, justice pathways, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms and available legal services.

UGANDA: Promote Healthy Diets through Legal Empowerment and Social Accountability Mechanisms Using a Human Rights-Based, Participatory, Multi-Sectoral Approach

This sub-project aims to contribute to an enabling environment in Uganda in support of fiscal and regulatory measures that promote healthy diets. The Center for Food and Adequate Living Rights (CEFROHT) is organizing a series of advocacy initiatives and policy dialogues engaging with policy and lawmakers on regulatory and fiscal measures that support healthier food environments, in order to strengthen rights-based advocacy interventions, collaboration and coordination among key stakeholders.

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Key Initiatives

  • IDLO is rolling out a program that aims to secure accessible, quality and sustainable justice services for citizens - particularly those living in rural, poor and other disadvantaged communities. The Community Justice Programme (CJP) supports both state and non-state legal aid, legal empowerment and other justice delivery interventions.
  • Promoting Healthy Diets and Physical Activity in Uganda
  • Adolescent girls and young women account for 71 percent of new HIV infections among young people in sub-Saharan Africa. They are more vulnerable to HIV because they are often subjected to a range of gender and age based biases, discrimination and violence, including sexual assault, forced marriage and trafficking. Despite growing HIV-related responses, they and their communities most often do not have the capacity, voice and power to hold these service providers accountable for improved delivery of quality HIV-related services.
  • One of the challenges in scaling up HIV-related legal services is the limited number of knowledgeable, skilled and committed lawyers to provide such services. Part of the solution therefore lies in building the capacity of law schools to ensure law graduates are equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills to support human rights-based approaches to HIV. Many universities, including in East Africa, offer clinical legal education programs to give students direct experience of providing legal information to clients.
  • Rates of sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) remain high in Uganda due to cultural practices, continued internal displacement, and low capacity of the justice system. IDLO is working to advance accountability for SGBV crimes committed in times of or after armed conflict in Uganda. 
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