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International Justice Mission: IJM Kampala

Kampala, Uganda
Joined March 2016
Presence in: Uganda
Focus: Community / Customary Land Rights, Environmental Justice, Family, Gender-based violence, Governance, Accountability & Transparency, Right to Information

International Justice Mission (IJM) is a global organization that protects the poor from violence by partnering with local authorities to rescue victims, bring criminals to justice, restore survivors, and strengthen justice systems. IJM’s global team of attorneys, investigators, social workers, and other professionals, combat property grabbing, slavery, sex trafficking, sexual violence, police abuse of power, and other forms of injustice.

In Uganda, IJM focuses on combating the rampant abuse of property grabbing from widows and orphans in Mukono County and Amuru and Gulu Districts. IJM partners the Ugandan justice system in Collaborative Casework, taking cases of individual victims of property grabbing through the justice system and providing hands-on training and mentoring to public justice system actors in the course of resolving each case. In partnership with local authorities, IJM secures property ownership for individual victims, restrains and prosecutes property grabbing offenders through the formal criminal justice system, and supports victims of property grabbing through the provision of aftercare services.

In addition to Collaborative Casework, IJM also engages in System Reform, a comprehensive initiative to strengthen the justice system response in order to more sustainably protect vulnerable people from violence. In 2012, IJM Kampala launched Project Empaanyi in Mukono County to strengthen the Ugandan justice system’s capacity torespond to, deter, and prevent property grabbing. IJM’s office in Kampala is registered as a non-governmental organization and legal aid service provider.