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The Project for Community Development for Promoting Return and Resettlement of Idp in Northern Uganda
OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER AMURU DISTRICT/ NWOYA DISTRICT THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA THE PROJECT FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR PROMOTING RETURN AND RESETTLEMENT OF IDP IN NORTHERN UGANDA FINAL REPORT MARCH 2011 JAPAN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AGENCY NTC INTERNATINAL CO., LTD. EID JR 11-048 Uganda Amuru Location Map of Amuru and Nwoya Districts Location Map of the Target Sites PHOTOs Urgent Pilot Project Amuru District: Multipurpose Hall Outside View Inside View Handing over Ceremony (December 21 2010) Amuru District: Water Supply System Installation of Solar Panel Water Storage facility (For solar powered submersible pump) (30,000lt water tank) i Amuru District: Staff house Staff House Local Dance Team at Handing over Ceremony (1 Block has 2 units) (October 27 2010) Pabbo Sub County: Public Hall Outside view of public hall Handing over Ceremony (December 14 2010) ii Pab Sub County: Staff house Staff House Outside View of Staff House (1 Block has 2 units) (4 Block) Pab Sub County: Water Supply System Installed Solar Panel and Pump House Training on the operation of the system Water Storage Facility Public Tap Stand (40,000lt water tank) (5 stands; 4tap per stand) iii Pilot Project Pilot Project in Pabbo Sub-County Type A model: Improvement of Technical School Project Joint inspection with District Engineer & Outside view of the Workshop District Education Officer Type B Model: Pukwany Village Improvement of Access Road Project River Crossing After the Project Before the Project (No crossing facilities) (Pipe Culver) Road Rehabilitation Before -
Northern Uganda Nutrition Survey in IDP Camps Gulu District, Northern
Northern Uganda Nutrition Survey in IDP Camps Gulu District, Northern Uganda Action Against Hunger (ACF-USA) June 2005 2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ACF-USA would like to acknowledge the help and support from the following people, without whom this survey would not have been conducted. Thanks to OFDA for their financial support in conducting the survey. Thanks to the District Department of Health Services (DDHS) for their agreement to let us conduct the survey and for their support of our activities within the District. Thanks to all the Camp Leaders, Zonal Leaders, and selected camp representatives who assisted us in the task of data collection. Thanks to the survey teams who worked diligently and professionally for many hours in the hot sun. Last and not least, thanks to the mothers and children, and their families who were kind enough to co- operate with the survey teams, answer personal questions and give up their time to assist us. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS I EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .......................................................................................................................... 6 I.1 OBJECTIVES............................................................................................................................................. 6 I.2 RESULTS.................................................................................................................................................. 6 I.3 RECOMMENDATIONS .............................................................................................................................. -
Atiak Town Board Proposed Physical Development Plan to Nimule Border Tiak T.I a Rls a Gi Onic St.M
400500.000000 40140010.0000000 401500.000000 40240020.0000000 402500.000000 40340030.0000000 403500.000000 4040040.0000000 404500.000000 ATIAK TOWN BOARD ATIAK TOWN BOARD PROPOSED PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN TO NIMULE BORDER TIAK T.I A RLS A GI ONIC ST.M K IA 2012-2022 T A II .C H L A N IO T A N Legend R E T IN LOCAL CENTER R E H T O PLANNING AREA BOUNDARY M LOCAL DISTRIBUTOR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 . LDR . 0 0 0 0 SECONDARY ROAD 3 3 0 0 6 6 0 0 3 3 2 3 3 6 6 3 3 LDR CONTOURS SECONDARY RING ROAD MDR PROPOSED LAND USES PRIMARY ROAD U LC R B A N STREAM A HDR G HIGH DENSITY RESIDENTIAL R IC MDR U L T U MDR R MEDIUM DENSITY RESIDENTIAL E LDR LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL 0 0 0 0 0 URBAN AGRICULTURE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 HDR MDR 0 5 5 2 2 INSTITUTIONAL 6 6 3 3 LAND FILL P.TI PROPOSED TERTIARY INSTITUTION P.SS PROPOSED SECONDARY SCHOOL P.PS PROPOSED PRIMARY SCHOOL L O C CIVIC A L C E N T E R PB POLICE BARRACKS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 COM 0 2 2 0 0 6 6 0 0 3 3 2 2 PRISON LAND 6 6 3 3 INDUSTRIAL WPS WATER PUMPING STATION URBAN AGRICULTURE MDR COM COMMERCIAL WATER RESERVOIR LDR HOTEL ZONE WR MDR MARKET INDUSTRIAL S AL S. -
Political Environment Surrounding the Land Conflict in Amuru District Acholi Sub-Region
POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT SURROUNDING THE LAND CONFLICT IN AMURU DISTRICT ACHOLI SUB-REGION Muganzi Edson Rusetuka Journal of Public Policy and Administration ISSN 2520-5315 (Online) Vol 4, Issue 2, No.1, pp 1 - 13, 2019 www.iprjb.org POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT SURROUNDING THE LAND CONFLICT IN AMURU DISTRICT ACHOLI SUB-REGION 1*Muganzi Edson Rusetuka Post Graduate Student: University for Peace *Corresponding Author’s Email: [email protected] Abstract Purpose: To examine the political environment surrounding the land conflict in Amuru district Acholi sub-region. Methodology: The study employed a descriptive research design involving both qualitative and quantitative studies where 5 focus group discussions with 40 women and 40 men from Pabbo, Amuru and Lamogi sub counties of Amuru district and key interviews with 4 participants from Area Land Committee members and other leaders in the above sub counties. Findings: The findings indicate that over 90% of rural land is understood by the people who live there as under communal control/ownership. These communal land owners are variously understood as clans, sub-clans or extended families. Ethnic based land tensions fostered insecurity and instability in the Amuru as people could not walk around freely, access their gardens, were displaced and this in turn affected their ability to make a living through accessing the land. I also found that many women had relational access to land through their marriage and relationship with male kin and this seemed to give them fragile land rights. Men on the other hand had firm control over land and made final decisions relating to sales and land use. -
The Legacy of the Lord's Resistance Army in Northern Uganda
A Service of Leibniz-Informationszentrum econstor Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre Make Your Publications Visible. zbw for Economics Bridges, Sarah; Scott, Douglas Working Paper Early childhood health during conflict: The legacy of the Lord's Resistance Army in Northern Uganda CREDIT Research Paper, No. 19/11 Provided in Cooperation with: The University of Nottingham, Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade (CREDIT) Suggested Citation: Bridges, Sarah; Scott, Douglas (2019) : Early childhood health during conflict: The legacy of the Lord's Resistance Army in Northern Uganda, CREDIT Research Paper, No. 19/11, The University of Nottingham, Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade (CREDIT), Nottingham This Version is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/210862 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. personal and scholarly purposes. Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle You are not to copy documents for public or commercial Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich purposes, to exhibit the documents publicly, to make them machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen. publicly available on the internet, or to distribute or otherwise use the documents in public. Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, If the documents have been made available under an Open gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort Content Licence (especially Creative Commons Licences), you genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. may exercise further usage rights as specified in the indicated licence. -
LAND CONFLICT MONITORING and MAPPING TOOL for the Acholi Sub-Region
LAND CONFLICT MONITORING and MAPPING TOOL for the Acholi Sub-region Final Report - March 2013 Research conducted under the United Nations Peacebuilding Programme in Uganda by Human Rights Focus EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In a context of land disputes as a potential major conflict driver, the UN Peacebuilding Programme (PBP) commissioned Human Rights Focus (HURIFO) to develop a tool to monitor and map land disputes throughout Acholi. The overall purpose of this project is to obtain and analyse data that enhance understanding of land disputes, and through this to inform policy, advocacy, and other relevant interventions on land rights, security, and access in the sub-region. Two rounds of quantitative data collection have been undertaken comprehensively across the sub-region, in February/March and September/October 2012, along with further qualitative work and analysis of relevant literature. In order to maximise its contribution to urgently needed understanding of land disputes in Acholi, the project has sought to map and collect data not simply on the numbers and types of land disputes, but also on the substrata: the nature of the landholdings on which disputes are taking place; how land is used and controlled, and by whom. KEY FINDINGS • Over 90% of rural land is understood by the people who live there as under communal control/ownership. These communal land owners are variously understood as clans, sub-clans or extended families. • The overall number of discrete rural land disputes is declining significantly. Findings suggest that disputes are being resolved at a rate of about 50% over a six-month period. First-round research indicated that total land disputes between September/ October 2011 and February/March 2012 numbered about 4,300; second-round data identified just over 2,100 total disputes over the period between April and August/ September 2012. -
Northern Uganda Land Study Analysis of Post Conflict
NORTHERN UGANDA LAND STUDY ANALYSIS OF POST CONFLICT LAND POLICY AND LAND ADMINISTRATION: A SURVEY OF IDP RETURN AND RESETTLEMENT ISSUES AND LESSON: ACHOLI AND LANGO REGIONS By : Team Members: Margaret A. Rugadya (Lead Consultant) Eddie Nsamba-Gayiiya Herbert Kamusiime World Bank UPI: 267367 Consultant Surveyors and Associates for Associates for Development Planners Development Tel. +414-541988, +0772-497145, Kampala Kampala +0712-497145 Email: [email protected] February, 2008 For the World Bank, to input into Northern Uganda Peace, Recovery and Development Plan (PRDP) and the Draft National Land Policy EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This is the second in a series of land studies for northern Uganda, whose core objective is to inform the Plan for Recovery and Development of Northern Uganda (PRDP) and the National Land Policy. It builds on the work of the first phase conducted in Teso region to present a more quantitative analysis of trends on disputes and claims on land before displacement, during displacement and emerging trends or occurrences on return for Acholi and Lango sub-regions. The key findings in the Teso study are that there is a high level of distrust towards the Central Government’s intentions toward land; customary tenure has evolved and adapted to changing circumstances but remains to be seen as a legitimate form of tenure; there was not a high prevalence of land disputes; the statutory and customary institutional framework for land administration and justice has been severely weakened; and vulnerable groups such as women and children have been marginalized during the return process. However, the Teso region has been one of the most secure regions during the conflict and has experienced very short periods of displacement and as such does not provide a good marker for the situation in the rest of northern Uganda. -
Ugandan Children and the Atrocities of the Lord's Resistance Army
Georgetown University Law Center Scholarship @ GEORGETOWN LAW 1998 The Stories We Must Tell: Ugandan Children and the Atrocities of the Lord's Resistance Army Rosa Brooks Georgetown University Law Center, [email protected] This paper can be downloaded free of charge from: https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/1260 http://ssrn.com/abstract=2312704 45 Africa Today 79-102 (1998) This open-access article is brought to you by the Georgetown Law Library. Posted with permission of the author. Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub Part of the Human Rights Law Commons, International Law Commons, and the Military, War, and Peace Commons Africa Today 45, 1 (1998}, 79-102 Africa Rights Monitor The Stories We Must Tell: Ugandan Children and the Atrocities of the Lord's Resistance Army Rosa Ehrenreich ROUX springs forward and places himself before the marchers, his back to them, still with fettered arms. When will you learn to see When will you learn to take sidesl During the summer of 1997, I spent a short time in Uganda as a consultant for Human Rights Watch, interviewing children who had been abducted by a rebel group called the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and who had expe rienced almost unimaginable horror.2 Adjectives cannot convey the reality best associated with images of the Cambodian genocide, the Jewish Holocaust, and recent events in Bosnia/Herzegovina. Like the Khmer Rouge, the Nazis, and Radovan Karadzic's Bosnian Serb militia, the LRA employs a calculated brutality against northern Ugandan civilians, forcing them tci participate in atrocities against fellow citizens. -
Northern Uganda
United Nations s/2006/29 Security Council Distr.: General 19 January 2006 Original: English Letter dated 16 January 2006 from the Charge d’affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Uganda to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council Reference is made to the letter dated 5 January 2006 from the Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations addressed to you (S/2006/13). On instructions from my Government, I have the honour to forward to you herewith a letter from the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Uganda transmitting an official position paper of the Government of Uganda on the humanitarian situation in northern Uganda (see annex). The Government of Uganda is giving a factual account of what is happening in northern Uganda and what the Government of Uganda is doing to address the situation on the ground. Any call for the situation in northern Uganda to be put on the agenda of the Security Council is therefore unjustified. I would be grateful if the present letter and its annex were circulated as a document of the Security Council. (Signed) Catherine Otiti Charge d’affaires a.i. 00-?1473 I: 240106 ,111 lllllll.ililII 111111 II Annex to the letter dated 16 January 2006 from the Charge d’affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Uganda to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council Attached is a synopsis of the humanitarian situation in northern Uganda (see appendix). It gives a historical background of the problem of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the ensuing humanitarian situation. -
Regional Development for Amuru and Nwoya Districts
PART 1: RURAL ROAD MASTER PLANNIN G IN AMURU AND NWOYA DISTRICTS SECTION 2: REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR AMURU AND NWOYA DISTRICTS Project for Rural Road Network Planning in Northern Uganda Final Report Vol.2: Main Report 3. PRESENT SITUATION OF AMURU AND NWOYA DISTRICTS 3.1 Natural Conditions (1) Location Amuru and Nwoya Districts are located in northern Uganda. These districts are bordered by Sudan in the north and eight Ugandan Districts on the other sides (Gulu, Lamwo, Adjumani, Arua, Nebbi, Bulisa, Masindi and Oyam). (2) Land Area The total land area of Amuru and Nwoya Districts is about 9,022 sq. km which is 3.7 % of that of Uganda. It is relatively difficult for the local government to administer this vast area of the district. (3) Rivers The Albert Nile flows along the western border of these districts and the Victoria Nile flows along their southern borders as shown in Figure 3.1.2. Within Amuru and Nwoya Districts, there are six major rivers, namely the Unyama River, the Ayugi River, the Omee River, the Aswa River, Tangi River and the Ayago River. These rivers are major obstacles to movement of people and goods, especially during the rainy season. (4) Altitude The altitude ranges between 600 and 1,200 m above sea level. The altitude of the south- western area that is a part of Western Rift Valley is relatively low and ranges between 600 and 800 m above sea level. Many wild animals live near the Albert Nile in the western part of Amuru and Nwoya Districts and near the Victoria Nile in the southern part of Nwoya District because of a favourable climate. -
Social Science in Humanitarian Action
Social Science in Humanitarian Action www.socialscienceinaction.org Cross-border dynamics and healthcare in West Nile, Uganda Since the start of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in August 2018, one single episode of Ebola has been reported within Uganda. A family travelled from Uganda to Mabalako Health Zone in North Kivu, DRC, to attend the funeral of their grandfather on 1 June 2019 (who was confirmed as having Ebola, on 2 June). They crossed back from DRC into Kasese District on 10 June, through the Bwera border post and sought medical care at Kagando hospital. The five-year-old grandson was symptomatic and, suspected of having Ebola, was transferred to Bwera Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU). The Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) confirmed that he had Ebola on 11 June, along with two other family members, his 50-year-old grandmother and three- year-old brother who were both also admitted to Bwera ETU. All three died. As of 26 June, 108 exposed contacts had been identified and were monitored daily. With no new cases or deaths reported, Uganda successfully completed its first 21-day follow-up period on 3 July 2019.1 On 30 June 2019, a case (mother of five children infected with Ebola, two of whom had already died) was confirmed in Ariwara Health Zone, Ituri Province, having travelled overland from Beni (460km south of Ariwara). This was the first confirmed case in this health zone. At the time of writing (5 July 2019), 177 family contacts had been listed, and 40 had already been vaccinated. -
“Between Two Fires”
“BETWEEN TWO FIRES” THE PLIGHT OF IDPs IN NORTHERN UGANDA: The human rights situation in the “protected camps” in Gulu District, Northern Uganda © Human Rights Focus 2002 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Human Rights Focus (HURIFO) with much gratitude wishes to acknowledge the full co- operation received from all the stakeholders which made it’s work easy when monitoring human rights situation in the Internally Displaced Persons camps in Gulu district. The project, which took about a year to reach a report dissemination level, was quite involving. It involved information gathering through oral interview with the victims and/or their relatives including eyewitnesses; sieving of the gathered information and packaging. Community leaders like the local councils at various levels as well as camp leaders rendered quite an invaluable assistance, which needs to be recognised and accordingly appreciated. Equally worthy of appreciation is the financial support to kick start the project received from Human Rights Watch (HRW), without which the project could have started as late as November 1 2000, when the major funder Ford Foundation came in. Last but not least the funding support from the Ford Foundation was an impetus to the two year project, which it’s first report (product) we are quite pleased to come out with now. Where as it is not possible to thank all those individuals and organisations that assisted Human Rights Focus in one way or the other in pushing this project forward, special gratitude recognition and appreciation, however, must be made of a person like Julianne Kippenberg of Human Rights Watch without whose technical support we couldn’t have come this far, and organisations such as Human Rights Watch and indeed our funder The Ford Foundation.