📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: UN WOMEN - United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
Country: Uganda Contract type: Standardvertrag Project start: 01.12.2024 Funding amount: € 3.500.000,00 End: 30.11.2027
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall goal
Victims of Gender Based Violence (GBV) access increased and timely quality essential justice services.
Expected results
1: Improved disposal of GBV cases across selected High Court Circuits – Masaka and Gulu.
2: Increased use of available, accessible, and quality essential GBV services by women and girls at risk and those experiencing violence.
Target group / Beneficiaries
The programme will directly benefit approximately 32,000 people including 2,880 GBV survivors. The services will be provided by the Judiciary, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Police.These key partners will implement the programme together with the Judicial Training Institute, the Justice Centres Uganda, the Uganda Law Society, as well as traditional justice actors, including religious and cultural leaders.
The implementation will focus on two High Court Circuits areas of Masaka (Western Uganda) and Gulu (Northern Uganda).
Activities
Activities include:
1.1. Technical support to registry staff across the two high court circuits of Gulu and Masaka to identify and cause list trial ready cases;
1.2. Capacity building for Case Management Teams (two in each high court circuit of Masaka and Gulu) for GBV cases;
1.3. Three central specialized trainings (1 per year) for enhanced GBV technical capacity for 50 judicial officers and administration staff including magistrates, clerks, registrars, IT personnel.
2.1. Victim support and service guidelines at circuit level in the districts of Gulu and Masaka including the survivors’ guide of the criminal justice system;
2.2. Quality legal aid and advisory support;
2.3. Awareness creation on human rights, court processes, GBV and available services through community dialogues and entertainment education.
Context
In the pursuit of equality and justice, it is imperative to address the unique challenges that women often face within the legal system in Uganda. Discrimination, gender-based violence, and systemic biases persist, hindering the realization of women's rights.
Gender equality and women’s empowerment is a prerequisite for accelerated socioeconomic transformation and ending violence against women and girls is critical for the realization of women´s rights. The key policy framework for gender equality, women’s empowerment, and access to justice in Uganda is the National Development Plan III and in particular the Governance and Security Program which among others has a responsibility to streamline Government structures and institutions for efficient and effective service delivery.This programme will among others address the structural and cultural barriers to GBV survivors' access to justice through improved dispos
