The Role of Legal Empowerment Groups in Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa During the Pandemic

The widespread national lockdowns, introduced from March 2020 in order to curb the spread of COVID-19, exacerbated gender inequality and led ...

Justice Respectueuse de l’Égalité des Sexes Pendant et Au-Delà de la Crise de la COVID-19: Réposes institutionnelles à la violence liée au sexe et rôle des groupes d’autonomisation juridique

Les mesures prises pour contenir la pandémie de la COVID-19 ont entraîné une recrudescence de la violence lié...

Justicia de Género Durante y Más Allá de la Crisis de la COVID-19: Respuestas institucionales a la violencia de género y el rol de los grupos de empoderamiento jurídico

Las medidas adoptadas para contener la pandemia de la COVID-19 condujeron a un aumento de la violencia de género ...

Justiça de Gênero Durante e Além da Crise da Covid-19: Respostas institucionais à violência de gênero e o papel dos grupos de empoderamento legal

As medidas tomadas para conter a epidemia da COVID-19 levaram a um aumento da violência de gênero em ...

Gender Justice During and Beyond the COVID-19 Crisis: Institutional Responses to Gender-based Violence and the Role of Legal Empowerment Groups

The measures taken to contain the COVID-19 pandemic led to a surge in gender-based violence around the world. As governments ...

The Challenge of Protecting Community Land Rights: An Investigation into Community Responses to Requests for Land and Resources (Executive Summary)

From 2009 until 2015, Namati and its partners Centro Terra Viva (CTV) in Mozambique, Land and Equity Movement in Uganda (LEMU), and ...

The Challenge of Protecting Community Land Rights: An Investigation into Community Responses to Requests for Land and Resources (Full Report)

From 2009 until 2015, Namati and its partners Centro Terra Viva (CTV) in Mozambique, Land and Equity Movement in Uganda (LEMU), and ...

Africa Prisons Project Impact Report 2017

This resource is a 2017 impact report from the Africa Prisons Project, which begins with the following introductory note from the ...

Justice Needs in Uganda: Legal Problems in Daily Life

At the end of 2015, HiiL, supported by the Swedish Embassy in Uganda and The Hague Institute for Global Justice, carried ...

Advancing Public Health through Strategic Litigation: Lessons from Five Countries

The law has a critical role to play in advancing public health in general, and in promoting the health of ...

Legal Empowerment and Social Accountability: Complementary Strategies Toward Rights-based Development in Health?

Citizen-based accountability strategies to improve the lives of the poor and marginalized groups are increasingly being used in efforts to ...

Lessons from the Field: Oral to Written – Practical Processes in Documenting Community Land Rules

Namati partner the Land and Equity Movement in Uganda (LEMU) shares insights into how staff facilitate the community rules-writing process.

Evaluation of Grassroots Community–Based Legal Aid Activities in Uganda and Tanzania: Strengthening Women’s Legal Knowledge and Land Rights

Progressive legislative actions in Uganda and Tanzania have improved women’s legal rights to land, however significant gender disparities persist ...

Addressing the Information Requirements of the Urban Poor – A Government-Community Partnership in Piloting the Social Tenure Domain Model in Uganda

In the recently published State of the World’s Cities (2010/2011) by UN-Habitat, it was highlighted that urban slum population is ...

Community Empowerment and Participation in Maternal Health in Kamwenge District, Uganda

The status of maternal health in Uganda has remained poor despite the country’s relatively fast economic growth of the ...

Doubly Traumatised: Lack of Access to Justice for Female Victims of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Northern Uganda

Amnesty International is strongly concerned that despite the cessation of hostilities in the conflict in northern Uganda, the incidence of ...

Study on Gender and Access to Justice

Gender has a significant influence on access to justice in Uganda. Alongside other poor and marginalized groups, women have received ...

Uganda Community Guide: How to Protect Your Community’s Lands & Resources

An example of an adaptation of the community land protection approach from Uganda. This guide from the Land and Equity ...

Training guide for community mapping in Karamoja

Community mapping is a grass roots community development initiative that strives to connect various actors in a particular area to ...

Ainembabazi Children’s Project Annual Report 2014/2015

This resource provides an overview of the work ACP has done in the past year and provides a set of ...

Human Rights and Gender Mainstreaming for Health Professionals – Trainee Manual

This Manual has been designed to assist health workers to better appreciate issues relating to human rights and gender and ...

Training Manual for Local Administrators and Leaders on Women Land and Property Rights

This Training Manual is developed for local administrators and leaders for the Centre for Rights Education, Governance and Development’s (...

Case Intake Form (CREGD)

This resource by Centre for Rights, Education, Governance, and Development is a template for case intake.

Land Rights Handbook – Uganda

The Handbook contains a historical background to the land tenure systems, the characteristics and modes of acquisition of the different ...

Promoting Community Legal Volunteers to Safeguard Land Rights in Uganda

The Manual contains guidelines on the organizational and practical skills necessary to be a Community Legal Volunteer (CLV) and how ...

Women’s Property Rights in the Context of HIV/AIDS – Uganda

This resource provides case studies that depict the plight of various women in Uganda struggling with land rights and HIV/...

Intimate Partner Violence Prevention

This resource provides a variety of mediation case studies related to gender-based violence and domestic abuse for rural families in ...

Legal and Judicial Sector Report – Uganda

This study examines and evaluates developments in the Justice Law and Order Sector (JLOS) institutions, noting both the achievements and ...

Directory of Organisational Profiles – Non-State Legal Aid Service Providers in Uganda

This resource features organizations in Uganda that are currently known to provide legal advice and assistance in both criminal and ...

Property Grabbing (Police)

In Uganda, widows and orphans live in fear of having their homes and their land stolen from them. They have ...