Action for Development of Rights

ADR-UGANDA.

(ACTION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF RIGHTS)

1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.

ADR- Uganda is registered CBO in Pallisa district operating in Apopong sub county.

It advocates for the support of OVC’s (orphan and vulnerable children), poor and needy people living in this sub county as a matter of human right concern, but also fundamental prerequisite for social justice, global health and sustainable peace (through poverty alleviation).

ADR- Uganda plans to support and promote the right of all people living in this sub county especially OVC’S (children, women and elderly) through grants that enable strategic interventions in three (3) contexts;

Education
Health
Environment.

In this collaborative efforts and initiatives with local international partners, ADR- Uganda will strive to be a model of good practice by ensuring that financial material and human resources mobilized in the name of OVC’s community are put to best service of the poor and needy as follows;

43% support Education campaign.
38% support health fight HIV AIDS, Malaria.
19% support Environment, Poverty (household income).

ADR- Uganda exists to strengthen and provide support to the needy and poor (OVC’s) in all the villages Apopong sub countyPallisa district to ensure effective implementation of its goal.

The project will start with major focus on increasing the number of OVC’s (children who are orphans and helpless) by trying to find friends, individuals, families, donor organizations (local/ international).

To provide education fund to improve the lives of these OVC’s.
To support widows with income generating activities to help them to take care of their basic household needs.
To support terminally sick by providing palliative care and support to those who are HIV/AIDS infected through provision of ARV drugs, food sublimates, guidance and counseling services to the general community (Guardians of OVC’s)
To assist in the provision or construction of spring wells in the local villages to help to provide clean water and reduce water born diseases.
All these will be attained by focusing on the project mission and vision.

MISSION.

To improve the social and economic wellbeing of OVC’S

VISION.

To provide self sustainability and independent life to all OVC’S in future (create a social free environment, educational opportunities, health and wellness by responding positively to the needs of all OVC’S.

During our pilot efforts in the target area, it was established that social and economic impacts negatively on livelihoods of all this OVC’S and increasingly or severely making them more valuable.

There is therefore need for urgent interventions in areas of health, education and training, as well as economic empowerment of these communities in OVC’s support training workshops.

This then calls for a need driven and community owned approaches initiatives to address and re-dress these challenges.

The major aim of ADR- Uganda is to provide or build a strong platform and foundation thought to promote and protect the full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all OVC’s who live in this sub county (Apopong and its entire villages) throughout their life cycle.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

ADR-Uganda is located in ApopongSubCounty, Agule County Pallisa District-Uganda.

Pallisa district was created in 1991 from then former Tororo District.

LOCATION:

The district boarders the districts of Mbale in the East, Kumi in the North, Kamuli in the North West.

POPULATION:

The district has over 522.254 people 269,224 are female and 253,030 are male.

ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES:

There is Agriculture with main emphasis on food crops such as millet, potatoes, maize, beans, Bananas, Sim-sim and sun flower, cash crop like cotton.

BANKS

Stanbic bank Uganda.
Global Trust Bank
Finance trust bank Uganda.

HEALTH SERVICES.

The district has one main hospital in Pallisa town with a total of only 109 beds. The government has a plan to improve the four (4) existing dispensaries but this has not picked up well due to lack of funding and in fractural developments. There is a big challenge of drug stocking to help to fight malaria and HIV/AIDS which is now the greatest challenge to its entire population in Pallisa district.

EDUCATION.

The district has a total of only 183 government primary schools and about 15 secondary schools to support the educational needs of it’s ever raising population of young children, majority of whom (greater percentage) are mainly OVC’s, result of war that affected most of its areas, poverty due to low income levels (households) and the deadly disease (HIV/AIDS) that has left most children orphan and helpless (under the care of very weak and elderly people)

The existing schools pose a great deal of challenge to majority of these children, especially secondary education that require students to walk long a distances to get to school in addition to lack of meals, living majority dropping out of school or not even attempting going to school.

The same challenge affects very young children with most parents fearing to send them to walk along distances alone to get to school in this case children are left to play at home and eventual miss the opportunity to study.

CULTURAL BACK GROUND:

Pallisa has people of different tribes and ethnic groups most of them are migrants who have settled in the place. These ethnic groups include Iteso, Basoga, and Bagisu. The indigenous people were the Bagwere.(Bantu speaking people)

ApopongSubCounty is mainly occupied by Iteso and a few Bagweres and Bakenye people living a round lake region with no schools and hospitals.

RELIGION:

Pallisa district has a greater population of Catholics, Anglican community born a gain Christians with a few pockets of the Muslim communities, mainly in the Bantu speaking areas.

Most big places of worship are built within Pallisa town, district headquarters where majority of the rural population go for worship and attend Sunday church services.

ADR- Uganda plans to strengthen social action programs in the selected community of OVC’s through empowerment of very poor and needy households and scale up initiative aimed at reducing level of poverty in ApopongSubCounty in particular.

The ultimate result of the program is to enable all the OVC’s in the identified community (ApopongSubCounty) to over come regimes and systems which increase their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, poverty, violence, exploitation, poor access to education and health services by countering them through multifested approach strategies.

During our pilot research effort in the target area in 2013, the regimes hard manifested them selves in terms of poverty and unequal access to education training ( vocational skills), reproductive health issues, violence and human rights abuses especially women, children and elderly people.

PROJECT CORE VALUES:

Respect and value human life ( dignity for all)
Stewardship and good accountability.
Promoting good environmental management practices.

The problems of OVC’s in Apopong sub county:

Since the entry of HIV/AIDS in Uganda in 1982, close to 2,000,000/= Children are orphans in the country date (UNAIDS 2, 000). This number has gone up to about 3,000,000 orphans as a result of the 20 years LRA. war which was going on in the north and north east Uganda.

HIV/AIDS Problems in Pallisa District:

HIV/AIDS is locally known as “silim or slim” here in Apopong because it eats way the body flesh of the person till such a person dies.

The problem of orphan, widows and HIV/AIDS is a complex one. It’s multi-sectoral and needs a multiplicity of skills to address the impact of affected and infected. (Persons/ households).

First, supported children/ youth with donor effort and funding to get life skills and formal education in the long run, they are able to help themselves and the society at large.

Secondly, there is a government’s effort under the universal primary education (UPE) in Uganda today, children have to pay money for lunch, breakfast, buy uniforms, coaching fees, books, pens, pencils and other scholastic materials and yet the majority are from very poor homes, even at secondary level the students have to pay for these necessities so as to study.

Thought the government provides free education opportunities, the very poor mentioned above and expanses this coupled to the long distance they makereach the existing schools limits many children from accessing such services (free primary/ secondary education-Uganda)

TABLE1:Quick Facts About Apopong Sub -County.

S/N / Indicator / ApopongSubCounty
1 / Population 2002 Projections
2 / Population Growth Rate / 3.5%
3 / Life Expectancy / 47years
4 / Children Under 5 Years / 60%
5 / Orphans / 70%
6 / Widows / 50%
7 / Elderly / 60%
8 / Infant Mortality / 400/1000
9 / Material Mortality / 300/1000
10 / Literacy Rate / 5%
11 / Income Per Person / Below 1USD a Day
12 / Shelter And Housing / Poor
13 / Health Services / Poor
14 / Status Of Roads / Poor
15 / Environment / Gone
16 / Food Security Situation / Bad
17 / Water Access / 5%
18 / Latrine Coverage / 10%
19 / Internet/Computer Users. / 1%

GOALS OF THE PROJECT:

To improve the quality of life of all OVCS and their guardians.

OBJECTIVES:

To prioritize the education of all OVCS, health and wellness of the entire community.

ACTIVITIES:

To identify the needy, (OVC’s) for support.
To network with local and international organizations.
To support education of OVCS (child sponsor)
To strengthen community leadership meetings and household projects (income generating activities)
To lobby for funds to buy land and to construct a school facility and health centre to cater for all the needs of OVCS in Apopong sub county.
support widows, single parents and elderly with income generating activities such as:-
Identification of widow.
Training them with simple business skills, provision of soft loans to those trained.
Monitor recovery and pass on the funds to other member.
To support the terminally sick and HIV /AIDS infected through provision of food supplement ARVS, guidance and counseling etc.
To help in the provision of mosquito nets to mother, children and elderly.
To support the provision of pit latrine coverage.
To identify critical areas needing spring well provision in the affected villages to provide clean water and help to reduce on water born disease.

TABLE 2.Project Activities Schedule For ADR- Uganda

S/N / ITEM / ACTIVITY / ACTION BY
1. / Education (child Sponsorship) /

Identify 600 orphans /vulnerable children
Take photos of the beneficiaries.
Organize meetings with locals.
Pay school fees.
Buy uniform, books, pens and others scholastic materials
Lobby for land purchase and school construction.

Project management and local
Leadership
Social worker.
Volunteers.
Field officers.

2. / Health (OVC’s and HIV/AIDS affected) /

Identify sick people( home)
Provide health seminars and counseling.
Provide drugs and food supplement.
To distribute mosquito nets to control malaria.
To conduct HIV/AIDS workshops.
To provide pit latrines slabs to OVC”S homes.
To dig spring wells for affected communities.

Project management.
Agriculture trainer
Field officers.
Volunteers.

3. / Environment (Household income generation activities) /

Select beneficiaries.
Organize meetings and training
Workshops to sensitize them on the importance of improving household income.
Identify possible projects to implement e.g. piggery, livestock and planting materials (cassava stems, fruits, trees or poultry and rabbit keeping.
To provide loans to selected household involving income generating activities.
To monitor recovery and provide support to other households next in the cycle.
Purchase of local planting materials, poultry and livestock to provide all participating OVC’s households.
Lobby for funds to support the construction of the community health centre.
Lobby for funds for Tree planting.

Project management.
Local leadership.
Agric trainer
Field officers
volunteers

1.1 TARGET AREA.

The project will start with 10 villages in the community of ApopongSubCounty out of 44 villages, that is to say;

KadumireVillage
OseipaiVillage
KapalaVillage
Okorotok Villiga
Dudi Vilaage
ObwanaiVillage
KatukeiVillage.
Adal Village
AngololVillage
ObeketaVillage.

The target population and its entire households, it has a majority of it’s resident being un employed, the earning partner is decimal and geared toward meeting subsistence costs which in terms has reduced their level of social economic self reliance especially among women who are sole bread winners in most of the households, significant contributing to high dependence burden levels /self sustenance.

1:2. TARGET GROUPS.

Needy and orphan children ( teens and youth)
Single mothers and widows (HIV/AIDS affected /infected)
Elderly (very weak and sick) lacking proper shelter / money.

1.3. Critical area one (1); Poverty Reduction.

To involve all OVC’S participating house holds in income generating activities in order to help to build and strengthen their social and economic capacities, commercial net works through market chain development.

1.4. Critical area two (2); Promotion of Health Care Services.

To help to increase community access through out their life cycle to appropriate, affordable quality health services, sanitation care, information health skills, psycho-social support, treatment, literacy, social inclusion / access to sanitary towels (pads) for girl child/women.
To under take sensitive initiatives that address HIV/AIDS problem, reproductive health sexuality, malaria, pit latrine coverage and access to clean water (to help to reduce water born disease problem).

1.5. Critical area three (3). Education and Training.

To facilitate the target groups to have access to educational opportunities and trainings in vocational life skills.
To promote equal opportunities (equity) to education and health to all affected OVC’s /villages.
To work towards elimination of economic exploitation of the poor women and children in Apopong sub county (working as house girls/house boy in near by towns)
To improve on teenage access to vocational education, science and technology (ICT) ie computer s in education/ class rooms

1.6. Critical Area four (4). Protection of Human Rights.

To empower the target group to access justice and equity, educational seminar and workshops and work towards non discriminatory regimes.

1.7. Critical Area five (5). Access to Clean Water.

The pilot research effort should be done to women and children are the most affected. They spend their entire life fetching water a whole day at the expense of other economic opportunities such as education which becomes a secondary priority.
Another fact establishes, water in these rural villages are contarminated with feaces and it’s used for cooking and drinking.

Therefore providing access to clean water (spring wells/ boreholes) would help to solve the problem, the reason why ADR -Uganda seeks to partner with willing local and international communities, friends, individuals and donors world wide to help to provide safe and clean water to the affected communities.( spring wells / boreholes)

IMPLEMENTATION METHODOLOGY:

The proposed project will be implemented through:-

Capacity building
Popular participation.
Enchanancement of free flow of information.

The applicants envision use of workshops, seminars, social concepts, activities referrals and other economic instruments to achieve the desired objectives in each critical area.

Advocacy and pressure building will be used as across cutting strategy in achieving the desired results.

2.1. TABLE 4.ENTRY PROCESS:

STRATEGY / PROCESS / EXPECTED RESULTS
CapacityBuilding /

To train the target group (OVC’s) on various social economic fields.

Change perceptions of OVC to live positive lifestyles.

Popular Participation /

Information sharing and dissemination approaches (workshops)

To transform their ways of doing things to reflect desired out put.(goals)

Social Economic Empowerment. /

Initiating income generating activities and support programs.

Access and retention of OVC’S at school (child sponsorship)
Community training workshops in business opportunities.

3.0 TABLE 5.MONITORING AND EVALUATION CHART:

ITEM / ACTIVITY
Pre-Project Level / Monitoring and Evaluation Tools
Process Evaluation / Situation Analysis
Project Completion Review / Impact, Snap Shots, Lessons Learnt and Report making.

4.0. TABLE 6:CRONOGRAM:

CRITICAL AREA / ACTION / BY WHOM / WHEN / INDICATORS.
POVERTY /

To link target group with grant makers/ donors

/ ADR-Uganda and donor partner, friends and individuals / January
2015-2016
December /

Funding agreements
Action plan (MOU’s)
Commitments.
Training needs.

HEALTH /

To work closely with ministry of public health to improve OVC’s health through fighting malaria spread of water born diseases and HIV/AIDs.

/ ADR-Uganda Government Health officials, donors, friends and individuals. / January
2015-2016
December /

Assessments
Reports.
Support
Networking.

EDUCATION /

Advocate for positive cultural change of OVC’s through child sponsorship.
Initiating training programs for youth (life skills and vocational education)

/ ADR-Uganda Education office, local government, donors
friends,
Individuals or church organization and partners. / January
2015-2016
December /

Tools of implementation
Number of participation.
Exchange programs.
Workshops and seminars.

ADR – UGANDA BUGETS FOR 2015/2016-SUPPORT INNITIATIVES:

a) Community Support Budget:

S/N / Critical Area / Activity / Target No / Unit Cost / Amount
Poverty /

Take youth for Vocational Skills Training

/ 80 / $30 / $2400
Health /

Fight malaia by donating mosquito nets to children/ pregnant women

/ $50 / $20 / $1000
Environment /

Support Widows/Elderly households

/ $200 / $10 / $2000
Total / $5,400

b) Child Sponsor and School Construction Project forChildren (OVC’s) In Pallisa Uganda:

S/N / Critical Area / Activity / Target No / Unit Cost / Amount
Education /

Child sponsor

/ 100 / $20 / $2000
Scholl Construction
a) / Land Purchase / 1 garden / $3000 / $3000
b) / Classrooms / 3 / $2500 / $7500
c) / Principals Office/Staffroom / I block / $3000 / $3000
d) / Dining, Kitchen/Food Store / 1 block / $4000 / $4000
e) / Staff & Students Toilets / 2 separate / $1200 / $2400
Total / $ 21,900

c) Youth Budget Support for Non – Formal Education (Vocational Skills)-Budini: