Background about Oxfam in Uganda Program.
Oxfam is a global movement for change that empowers people to create a secure future, just and free from poverty. We believe that everyone has a right to safety, security, a livelihood, and a say in decisions that affect them. We seek a world in which everyone can speak up to power, demand and claim their human rights, and build a better future for themselves. We recognize that we cannot achieve this on our own but as a collective power. We, therefore, work in partnership with local and grass-root organizations, civil society, individuals, volunteers, the private sector, and the Government.
Our Vision is Uganda free of inequality and Injustice: A society where people, particularly women and young people, claim and exercise their rights and responsibilities and influence decisions that affect their lives. Our work is guided by the Country Strategic Framework (CSF) (2021-2030) which is organized around four themes: Governance and Accountability, Resilient Livelihoods, Humanitarian preparedness and response and Gender Justice and Women Rights. All the themes work towards influencing policy and practice, youth and women empowerment, inclusive participation in decision making at various levels, and capacity strengthening of national and local actors.
Oxfam is an international confederation of seventeen (17) organizations collaborating with partners and local communities in more than ninety (90) countries to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice. Oxfam in Uganda started work in the 1960s delivering development and humanitarian support as part of the Oxfam confederation, a global movement of people fighting to end inequality and injustice. Today, we continue to tackle the inequalities that make and keep people poor. We save and protect people’s lives in times of crisis. We collaborate with people to build their resilience and rebuild their livelihoods. We enable vulnerable people’s voices to be heard and campaign for genuine, durable change.
Background of the Triple Nexus:
The Triple Nexus is a United Nations-led strategic agenda, intentionally delivering programmes that link humanitarian, development and peace. The triple nexus is considered more transformative, offering more opportunities to shine a light on the peace pillar and address people’s vulnerability before, during, and after a crisis. The interconnectedness of humanitarian response, long-term development and peace are essential to addressing the root causes of vulnerability, fragility and conflict and providing sustainable solutions.
Oxfam believes that ‘humanitarian relief, development programmes and peacebuilding are not serial processes; they are all needed at the same time to tackle the systemic inequalities that trap people in poverty and expose them to risk. The triple nexus, or programming across humanitarian-development-peace pillars, thus means creating synergies and common goals across short-term emergency response programmes and longer-term social change processes in development, as well as enhancing opportunities for peace so that individuals can enjoy the full spectrum of human rights.
This approach builds on a legacy of sector and organisational approaches and programmatic evidence on topics like disaster risk reduction (DRR), linking relief to rehabilitation and development (LRRD), resilience, early warning/early action and Oxfam’s ‘one programme approach’. It fundamentally aims to build better, more resilient and sustainable local and national systems that enable people and communities to thrive, and not simply survive, when facing shocks and to live in more equal and peaceful societies. It has also emerged in the structures and architecture of the aid system to shape funding decisions, guidance on official development assistance (ODA) and planning processes.
Underlying the humanitarian needs are the broader issues of inequalities and injustice as the root causes and key drivers. The triple nexus was conceived on the basis that humanitarian crises could be caused by poor development, including a lack of inclusive policies. The humanitarian-development-peace nexus aims at meeting lifesaving needs while ensuring longer-term development addresses systemic causes of conflict and vulnerability and advances peaceful co-existence in communities. To bring about long-lasting change and shifts in power.
In bid to promote the adoption of the triple nexus in programming Oxfam developed a guideline and a checklist. This guideline and checklist are aimed at enabling operationalization and tracking the application of the HDP nexus, also referred to as the triple nexus, in Oxfam work. The guideline suggests what can be done at the different stages of the programme to adopt the triple nexus effectively and offers indicators to assess how the nexus is applied. The guideline and the checklist were construed for adoption of the nexus approach in any context but most especially in fragile and conflict-affected contexts, as well as working with partners, recognizing gender justice, dealing with operational constraints, and in alignment with country and global strategic frameworks (see annex).
About the Learning Review
Oxfam in Uganda has been one of the Oxfam country programmes that has adopted the nexus approach in the design and implementation of some of the projects and continues to influence other partners in the same. Early this year Oxfam in Uganda with support from Oxfam America (OUS)_The Knowledge and Impact Unit and Oxfam Denmark (ODK) secured funding to undertake a Nexus learning review focusing on 03 ongoing projects which are all implemented using a nexus approach. This is aimed at generating lessons learnt and capturing good practices that can provide evidence to inform future programming and influencing on this approach to ensure its adoption both internally and externally.
The three (03) projects targeted by the review include Power of Voces –PvP project, DANIDA SP II project and ICSP RISE-K project that have adopted the nexus approach using the lens of Humanitarian, Development and Peace building (HDP). All three (03) projects have adopted and are implemented using the nexus approach observing the six guiding principles of the triple nexus in the Oxfam developed Guidance and checklist.
- ‘Power of Voices’ is a 5-year Strategic Partnership project (2021 – 2025). The project is in the 3rd year of implementation in the West Nile districts of Nebbi, Zombo and Arua. This project works towards achieving economic transformation that ensures that empowered smallholder coffee and horticulture farmers gain improved livelihood through inclusive and sustainable businesses.
- The ‘Resilience, Inclusiveness, Stability and Empowerment of Communities in Karamoja’ (RISE-K) is a 5-year (2023-2027) project funded by Irish Aid. The project is implemented in Moroto, Amudat and Nakapiripirit districts of Karamoja sub-region. The project is implemented by Oxfam through ICSP intends to directly reach 37,970 women, youth and other vulnerable people from mining and pastoralist communities who are living under extreme poverty and facing severe labour rights violations. Oxfam will partner with Resource Rights Africa (RRA), National Association of Women of Uganda (NAWOU), CARITAS Moroto, and The Uganda Apiculture Development Organization (TUNADO) to deliver interventions focusing on governance and accountability for effective service delivery, promotion of women’s rights, enhanced local capacity for effective people-centered, climate and conflict -sensitive, gender-responsive and inclusive disaster preparedness and response and improved income and food security.
- DANIDA SP II: ‘Humanitarian Development & Peace initiative for crisis affected population in Uganda’ is a project with funding through Oxfam Denmark. The 4-year Strategic Partnership focuses on Economic Justice and Inclusive democracies, Education for active citizenship, Inclusive peace building, Humanitarian Action & Resilience. The project runs from 2022 to 2025 and is in its 3rd year of implementation. Oxfam is implementing this initiative in partnership with 04 Refugee Led Organizations, 01 National Community Based Organization and 4 NGOs to achieve a peaceful, gender and climate just society which upholds all human rights through promotion of peaceful co-existence, delivery of livelihood and food security, education, climate change and economic and social justice primarily in West Nile districts of Yumbe, Madi Okollo and Terego. A small component (EACOP) is implemented in South West.
In order to, conduct the Nexus Learning Review, Oxfam in Uganda is seeking the services of an international and national consultants with solid understanding from nexus programming and experience with conducting similar studies.
The International consultant will be expected to identify and work with the national consultant who should be based in the country.
The Overall purpose of the Learning Review
The overarching purpose of the Nexus Learning Review is to rigorously assess and document the effectiveness, efficiency, and relevance of the nexus approach implemented across the three (03) projects within Oxfam in Uganda.
Specific objectives of the Assessment.
- To evaluate the extent to which the nexus approach, as implemented in these three (3) projects has contributed to achieving desired results across the three areas of Humanitarian, Development and Peace (HDP) i.e. to assess the effectiveness, efficiency, relevance and impact of the nexus approach on enhancing timely and effective response which builds resilience, promotes peaceful co-existence and conflict sensitive programming.
- To document lessons learned, best practices, and challenges encountered during the implementation of the nexus approach across the three targeted projects. By identifying successful strategies, changes resulting from using the nexus approach, innovative approaches, and areas for improvement in order to enhance organizational learning across OiU, OiA and the entire OI confederation.
- To generate evidence-based and actionable recommendations for enhancing the application and scalability of the nexus approach in effective program design, implementation, documentation, influencing and adoption or utilization by other stakeholders and institutions.
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