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| Project Name: | Empowerment of Women for Durable Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Uganda |
| Project Description: |
Empowerment of women for peace and reconciliation in Northern Uganda is a twelve month (1 year) (2007 – 2008) CARE Uganda Project that addresses the need for capacity building among women leaders in the region to advocate for peace and engage in peace building processes taking advantage of the UN Resolution 1325 that calls for participation and involvement of women in all peace processes. The project also addresses the lack of appreciation of women's potential and actual contribution to peace building and reconciliation; and the need for national actors in peace and reconciliation to engage with grassroots women to ensure representation and accountability at all levels. Gulu and Amuru districts as part of Northern Uganda have experienced a 20-year Lord’s Resistance Army conflict and women have had to bear the brunt of it through various forms of violence, like abduction, maiming, rape, physical assault, forced early marriages, extreme trauma and abject poverty. This project primarily targets women leaders in cultural, political, religious, agricultural, business and social settings and survivors of violence and human rights violations. The project is an initiative to put the UN Resolution 1325 into practice given the ongoing peace building processes in Northern Uganda.
By 2008, through the project, women leaders in the two districts of Gulu and Amuru will be actively participating in conflict resolution and peace building initiatives at the local, regional, national and international levels. The project will first and foremost build capacity of 110 women leaders to participate in peace processes from grassroots to the national level through training in peace building and advocacy skills and providing opportunities for exchange visits. Secondly, the project will specifically support women leaders efforts to advocate for the implementation of UN resolution 1325 at all levels.
Expected results include:
 110 women leaders from Northern Uganda spearhead advocacy campaigns on UN resolution 1325 at local, regional and national level; Increased confidence and skills of the 110 women leaders to actively engage in peace processes
 Increased awareness and appreciation of the real and potential contribution of women in ending the ongoingconflict among members of parliament, district leaders and CSOs involved in peace work;
 Men champions of women participation in peace building and prevention of violence identified and targeted for inclusion in the advocacy agenda to influence decision making organs and their peers; Increased networking and collaboration among women leaders from N-uganda for peace and stability. |
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