📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: FIDA - The Uganda Association of Women Lawyers - Uganda
Country: Uganda
Contract type: Standard contract
Project start: 01.05.2026
Funding amount: € 792.000,00
End: 30.04.2029
Overall goal
Improved access to equitable, quality and gender-responsive justice for marginalised and/or vulnerable community members and enhanced legal empowerment particularly of women and girls, in Lira and Kotido districts in northern Uganda.
Expected results
1. Marginalized and/or vulnerable people received holistic legal aid services, psychosocial support and economic empowerment.
2. Strengthened institutional and leading actors' capacity to effectively challenge harmful practices that perpetuate gender inequality and gender related rights violations.
3. Increased advocacy for women’s rights and gender-equitable social norms.
Target group / Beneficiaries
The 7,944 direct project beneficiaries will include 6,000 survivors of different forms of right violations (4000 female; 2000 male) receiving holistic legal aid services, 1,800 community members, 30 women leaders, 24 Community Legal Volunteers and 90 cultural leaders. Indirect beneficiaries will include 24,000 members of the households of direct beneficiaries, and 276,000 community members from Kotido and Lira and the neighbouring districts, reached through the mass media campaigns.
Target districts are Lira in Lango sub-region and Kotido in Karamoja sub-region.
The Uganda Association of Women Lawyers (FIDA-Uganda) is the implementing organisation with long-standing experience in handling GBV cases. FIDA-Uganda collaborates with complementary actors, networks and associations active in the justice sector in target areas and works alongside the Uganda Human Rights Commission Lira office in preparation of district-level reports on the state of human rights. In both Lira and Kotido districts, FIDA-Uganda coordinates dialogues with the cultural institutions to address harmful practices.
