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Human Security: Building Sustainable Peace and Development in Karamoja

Background

The Karamoja sub-region in north-eastern Uganda - where the link between the natural harsh semi-arid environment, security, development and human rights is profound - is an area of the country that appears to be locked into a vicious cycle. Karamoja is often referred to as Uganda's 'forgotten crisis'.

The Karamoja cluster lies across four countries (Uganda, the Sudan, Kenya and Ethiopia) and the Ugandan Karamoja sub-region consists of the districts of Moroto, Kotido, Nakapiripirit and Kaabong. This region remains one of the poorest areas of Uganda in almost all development and humanitarian indicators with severe ramifications on neighboring districts. Armed violence continues due to a combination of factors including cultural/historic aspects, lack of formal security and justice system, competition amongst tribes for natural resources, prevalence of illegal weapons, government-local grievances, and militarization.

Development objectives

This project is designed to support implementation of activities linked to the Government of Uganda’s development framework for Karamoja. The overall goal of the project is 'to contribute to the promotion of human security, peace and stability in order to create conditions for sustainable development in Karamoja'.

Key activities & expected results

The project activities and expected outputs fall under five main components:

 

  • strengthen capacity of local governments in Karamoja to undertake peace building and conflict transformation
  • empower women to positively contribute to peace building and peaceful conflict resolution in Karamoja
  • support district local governments to undertake development interventions that enhance peace building and peaceful conflict resolution in Karamoja
  • collaborate with the district local governments to undertake cross-border peace building initiatives with pastoral groups in countries neighbouring Karamoja
  • strengthen national capacity for peace building and development

    • Implementation phase

     

    This project is a follow-up to the pilot implemented by OPM between June 2005 and June 2006. Implementation recently began in August 2007 and is expected to run through to July 2010.
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    4.1 Conflict prevention and peace building
    Project Details
    Project No: 00047028
    Status: Ongoing
    Duration: 01-08-07 - 31-07-10
    Location
    Moroto, Kotido, Nakapiripit, Kaabong, Abim
    Budget
    USD 3,104,794
    Delivery Volume
    USD 451,141.97
    National MDG Focus
    Donor Funding

    UNDP Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR): USD 3,104,794

    Partner Information
    Executing Agency:
    Office of the Prime Minister (OPM):
    Implementing Partners:
    District Local Governments in Karamoja, in collaboration with selected CSOs and private sector institutions
    Contact at UNDP
    Rose Ssebatindira
    Contact details

    rose.ssebatindira@undp.org

    Last Update
    05-02-09
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