IDLO Grants and Financial Support for NGOs in Uganda

IDLO Grants and Financial Support for NGOs in Uganda

The International Development Law Organization (IDLO) is seeking applications for its Community Justice Programme in Uganda to provide financial support to a maximum of seven (7) non-governmental organizations to undertake interventions focusing on deepening access to justice in Uganda including through provision of legal aid and legal information, capacity building for justice actors, legal and policy advocacy, legal empowerment and other access to justice initiatives to vulnerable and marginalized communities living in rural areas in Uganda including women, children, refugees, displaced persons, victims of conflict-related sexual and gender-based crimes.

The International Development Law Organization (IDLO) is the only international, inter-governmental organization exclusively devoted to promoting the rule of law and sustainable development.

IDLO works to enable governments and empower people to reform laws and strengthen institutions to promote peace, justice, sustainable development and economic opportunity.

The Republic of Uganda became the 37th member party of IDLO on October 4, 2019 and subsequently entered into an agreement with IDLO in March 2020 which paves the way for IDLO’s roll out of various programmes in support of Uganda’s development agenda in a number of areas, including access to justice.

The interventions to be supported should be geared towards contributing to the realization of one or combination of more than one of following eleven CJP outputs: