Training 300 Community volunteers in Human Rights

Summary

Training 300 Community volunteers in Human Rights Monitoring, Democracy building and Establishment of a network of Human Rights and Democracy Activists in south western Uganda

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

Although Uganda has established a constitutional and legal framework for fundamental human rights and good governance, the country continues to struggle with the challenges of dealing with daunting levels of poverty, corruption in the public sector and relatively weak participatory democratic institutions. NAFODU has volunteers who work for the advancement of human rights in their communities. This project will involve Training 300 volunteers in Human Rights Monitoring and Democracy building

How will this project solve this problem?

The project will involve organizing five training workshops each targeting 60 participants. Following the training workshops, the trained volunteers will constitute a network of human rights and democracy activists in south western Uganda.

Potential Long Term Impact

The project will contribute to the promotion of human rights and democracy since it will help volunteers acquire the skills and knowledge needed to more effectively participate in building democracy and promote human rights in south western Uganda

Project Message

“NAFODU is doing important grassroots work to build democracy and protect human rights. This is critical in a country where Idi Amin slaughtered 300,000 people of the opposition party”
- Ann McLaughlin,, Executive Director, NGOabroad USA

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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