ABOUT THE PROJECT:

The Power of Voices Partnership (PvP) Fair for All (F4A) programme is a five-year initiative with the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs led by Oxfam NOVIB.  

The influencing programme is aimed at supporting and collaborating with people’s rightful demands towards companies, governments and multilateral organizations for economic, social and environmental justice, promoting global trade and value chains that are fair for all. The main focus of the programme is to support and strengthen CSOs to play their diverse roles as educators, mobilizers, creators and watchdogs to make trade and value chains fair for all.  

Learn more about the global Power of Voices programme here

In Uganda, the Fair for All project aims at strengthening CSOs to create space and mobilize demands of small-scale producers to contribute to more inclusive and sustainable agribusiness value chains (focus on agriculture, specifically coffee and horticulture) that respect land rights and promote grassroots women’s rights and economic empowerment.  

PROJECT AIM:

  • To enhance women’s access to local, regional and global value chains (agriculture, specific focus on coffee and horticulture) by strengthening their organizations and capacity to influence stakeholders in value chains, including public actors, for more inclusive policies and constituencies on production practice.

BENEFICIARIES

  • The Netherlands Embassy in Uganda
  • CSOs/NGOs including partners-(SEATINI, CSBAG, AFCE , ESAFF and UAA) and their alliance members. These will amplify CSO voices for collective advocacy
  • Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs) such as the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development (MoLHUD), Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) and Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) among others
  • Community/smallholder producer groups
  • Community neighborhood assemblies and Tax Justice Campaigners at the subnational level.

EXPECTED RESULTS:

  • Strengthened Civil Service to advocate for a more responsible private and financial sector that prizes the common good and upholds the right of women and communities - land rights, decent work, living wages, women’s rights, and environmental rights
  • Strengthened Civil Service to advocate for a more responsible private and financial sector that prizes the common good and upholds the rights of women and communities - land rights, decent work, living wages, women’s rights, and environmental rights.
  • Strengthened Civil Service to advocate for more sustainable, inclusive, and women-centred value chains, by introducing alternative business practices in co-creation with public and private sector champions.
  • Strengthened CS to advocate for fiscal and trade reforms that enable governments to harness benefits (revenues-skills-technology-innovation) from primary commodity value chains to benefit small-scale women producers and rural communities.

 IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS:

  • Agency for Community Empowerment (AFCE)  
  • Eastern and Southern Africa Small Scale Farmers Forum (ESAFF),
  • Uganda Agribusiness Alliance (UAA)
  • Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group (CSBAG. 
  • Southern and Eastern Africa Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI) Uganda.

FUNDED BY:

  • MOFA.

BUDGET:

  • €2,073,693.18

PROJECT DURATION

  • 5 years (2021- 2025)

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE:

  • National level and subnational level in Nebbi and Zombo districts
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