ABOUT THE PROJECT:

With the Funding from Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Oxfam in Uganda is implementing an advocacy project strategy through national and local partners, including refugee-led organizations under the localization agenda 2016. The project, is being implemented by local and national actors led by the Refugee Led Organizations Networks (RELON) and the World Voices Uganda in the West Nile and South Western in Uganda under the Local Humanitarian Leadership to promote the spirit of localization. The grant has been released by Oxfam in Uganda to its implementing partners to conduct advocacy activities.

In refugee displacement settings, it is usually Refugee Led Organisations (RLOs) that are closest to the affected refugee communities and best understand their needs. While other local actors-members of the host community – may be “more local” than national and international actors, they may not share a language, culture, or displacement experience with the refugee community.

However, RLOs face significant hurdles in being able to represent their communities in coordination and decision-making spaces in the current humanitarian system, where refugee responses, like many responses, are often dominated by UN agencies and INGOs. Like other local actors, RLOs often encounter negative assumptions about their capacity and organizational integrity. They experience multiple hurdles in institution building-they often cannot register as NGOs, access banking services, or receive direct funding. They are rarely given the chance to design and implement programs, manage funds, speak to policymakers or donors, or have a seat at the table where decisions are made

PROJECT AIM:

  • To ensure local actors, experience a shift in national and international humanitarian systems, whereby they have access, space and power to hold donors and intermediaries to account and they experience improved quality and quantity of funding, involvement in coordination mechanisms, and meaningful partnerships to create a more conducive environment for both the local and national actors to participate in the decision-making processes and influence policies at national, regional and global levels to realize the power shift.

EXPECTED RESULTS:

  • Increase RLO leadership through participation and advocacy by RLOs, LNGOs, and their networks in national as well as regional and global high-level fora such as Charter for Change and Grand Bargain workstreams.
  • Increase the institutional and advocacy capacity of select RLOs and RLO networks in Uganda and Ethiopia to increase the effectiveness of refugee responses and facilitate direct funding and operational independence.

 IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS:

  • Refugee Led Organizations and Networks.
  • World Voices Uganda

FUNDED BY:

  • Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.

BUDGET:

  • €455,612

PROJECT DURATION

  • 3 years (2022-2025)

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE:

  • Western Uganda- Kikuube and Kyegegwa districts.
  • West Nile Region- Kiryandongo, Madi-Okolo and Terego districts
  • South Western- Isingiro, Kamwenge and Kyegegwa districts.