General

Haki na Sheria Initiative was initially established in 2010 and registered as community based organisation 2012. The organisation?s capacity grew as it started handling matters like citizenship at the national level. This change necessitated the change in status and the organization got registered with the NGO Coordination Board as a national NGO in 2017. Haki na Sheria Initiative exists to empower marginalized communities to understand, respect, promote, demand and effectively claim their human rights and obligations in pursuit of an equitable society. HSI?s is committed to the vision of a Kenya where all marginalized communities live dignified lives free of human rights violations. In HSI?s view, change requires a local catalyst. The change can only be built by civic engagement of the local communities through public education and raising awareness about human rights, seeking accountability at all levels of the government through local communities? engagement and filing public interest litigation cases and through engaging with strategic networks and movement building to a society that is free from human rights violations. Overall objectives: Improved awareness for 600 poor and marginalised pastoralist on community land rights; Register Sarirah community land with national land commission in Garissa County by the end of 24 months.

General

Project further educates the 40 young indigenous peoples representatives that the organization have capacitated earlier about the cultural and legal rights of the indigenous peoples in order them to better defend those rights and take possible injustices t o the legal instance. The education concentrates especially on questions of land law rights and right of access to health care. Educating the indigenous peoples own representatives to defend their rights serves the aim of spreading the knowledge and multip lication of effects among the communities. Furthermore empowerment enables better monitoring detection and following-up of violations of the rights. Also representatives of three different indigenous peoples organizations are capacitated on these issues. A s well a situation report about the state of the indigenous peoples rights and legal problems encountered by the communities will be published to increase awareness in the whole society and to enhance the implementation of the legal rights.

Objectives

Overall objective of the country programme 2022-25: Strengthen the resilience, social cohesion and living conditions of the populations in Uganda confronted with the effects of the multifaceted crisis by enhancing sustainable food production, increased income, and their capacity to act as change agents of own and community welfare. The long-term changes (outcomes) of the country engagement 2022-2025: 1. Farmer cooperatives, local partners and national advocacy platforms are voicing interests of small-scale farmers, refugees, and youths on issues of relevance to them, including climate change adaptation, land rights and access of women and refugees, youth employment and easy market certification of value-added produce 2. Small-scale farmers have increased sustainable production and sale of produce through organised farming and climate smart techniques 3. Increased access and use of innovative green technology solutions reducing deforestation and wood fuel dependence among refugee, host, and vulnerable households 4. Youth and women are empowered and have gained increased influence through leadership positions, school peace clubs, the national youth-led advocacy platform (NYAP) and promotion of gender equity 5. All direct local partners (incl. at diocesan level) comply with CIMS and /or CHS 6. Local partners take lead and have increased influence at the international sphere