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Supporting an inclusive Transitional Justice process through victim- and community-led interventions

Supported by the International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), this project, overall, seeks to enhance advocacy efforts for reparations, promote healing and justice and empower survivors and victims of past violent conflicts in the Rwenzori region. Specifically, the project enhances the agency of religious and cultural leaders in contributing to inclusive Transitional Justice processes and actions in the Rwenzori region. For inclusivity and the enhancement of synergies, the project brings on board, representatives of women, youth, victims of violent conflicts and security agencies.

Media for Dialogue (M4D) 
 
Supported by La Benevolencija, this project seeks to build trust through cross border dialogue and media engagement in the Great Lakes Region. Specifically, RFPJ rallies Ugandan communities and leaders on Uganda-Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) border of Busunga to contribute to cross border peace, security, trade and positive people-to people relations. Interventions appreciate indelible historical, social, economic and cultural interconnectedness between cross border communities. As an appreciation, RFPJ works to harness this interconnectedness as a foundation for igniting legitimate and people-centred discussions, policy proposals and mindset set change on aspects of peace, security, trade and free movement of people and goods across borders.

 

Accelerating Women’s Contribution to Pre-2025/2026 Electoral Conflict Prevention in the Rwenzori Region
 

Supported by the UN Women under the auspices of Women Peace and Humanitarian Fund, this project covers Uganda’s five districts of Bundibugyo, Ntoroko, Kabarole, Kasese, and Kyenjojo. This project aims at enhancing women’s organizational and technical capacities to accelerate their contribution towards the pre-2025/2026 electoral conflict prevention in the Rwenzori region, by strengthening women’s capacity in pre-2025/2026 electoral conflict mapping, analysis, and prevention. 

 

Fostering Victim-Responsive Transitional Justice (TJ) In Uganda

Supported by Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, this project aims at incrementally furthering victims’ realization of Transitional Justice in Uganda. Specifically, the project seeks to strengthen the organizational and technical capacities of at least 2,000 victims of past conflicts in the Rwenzori and Northern regions of Uganda in furthering victim-centered and responsive TJ. Lastly, the project aims at progressively influencing at least 200 policy makers, leaders, and other actors towards the implementation of the 2019 National TJ policy and enactment of the National TJ Act in a victim-centered and responsive manner.The project deliberately targets and engages with victims of different conflicts in the two aforementhioned regions, the Parliament of the Republic of Uganda, relevant Ministries, and other state and non-state actors involved in the furtherance of TJ at local, regional, and national levels. In these engagements, RFPJ strives to amplify voices of victims as first-hand advocates for their own rights, needs, and interests and creates platforms for them to dialogue with duty-bearers in shaping the direction of responses to their peculiar needs and interests.

Closing the Gap: Secondary Education for all Girls in Ntoroko and Bundibugyo Districts

Supported by Saleve Foundation, this project targets Uganda’s districts of Bundibugyo and Ntoroko neighboring the Eastern DRC. The project rallies girls in secondary schools and different stakeholders within the two districts and at the national level to further the implementation of the USE program and further girls’ right to education as per Article 30 of the 1995 Uganda Constitution and Sustainable Development Goal Number 4. In this rallying, this project invests in raising public awareness on girl child education, strengthening the agency of the girl child to overcome barriers, influencing policies on girl child education and advocating for a shift in norms and practices that undermine girls’ right to education.