The two weeks working on the projects passed by very quickly, and now suddenly the delegation is spread everywhere: some are leaving for Norway today, some are travelling further on in Africa. I'm in the last alternative, I haven't got enough of Uganda yet! I love it here.
About Project Legal Aid.
We successfully achieved everything we wanted to do during the project weeks: a meeting with the projects collaborators, an information meeting for local leaders about KCCC Advocacy, and a meeting with student leaders at Makerere University, faculty of law. We also got in contact with a Police Surgeon at Mulago hospital (the public hospital here), who is a Lions Club member as well. KCCC Advocacy will be able to collaborate with him further on. For all this, we are very satisfied. Together with Richard at KCCC Advocacy, we think these activities have been important for the project's way forward.
The question now, is how to conclude. How will the project continue in the future, and how can the next AIM delegation follow it up in the best way? The answer is not given, and we will have further evaluation on this subject when back in Norway in August. Although, we have some thoughts about it already. As the advocacy works now, they are in between the population in Kamwokya (the survivors/victims) and the different NGO's witch are specialized in different legal areas to provide legal aid services. As we see it, there could be different solutions.
The first one, is that KCCC Advocacy could develop to be an Advocacy that provides free legal aid services from its offices. This would be a new project, for the next AIM delegation. The challenge for such project, as we see it now, is the criteria of sustainability. Free legal aid provision is dependent of donors or other resources. We have already experienced KCCC's lack of resources, and lack of priority of the Advocacy program within the organisation. The other solution, is that the Advocacy at KCCC can continue working as they do now, to refer cases further on to different NGO's specialized in the legal areas, or to the police. The next delegation could then work on how to smoothen this collaboration of referral even better.
Anyways, how the conclusion on the way forward will look like, we are satisfied about the work we've done in collaboration with Richard and Sylvia at KCCC Advocacy. It has really been a great pleasure and good experience working together with them. Personally, I think I'll miss Kamwokya a little bit. :)
I would like to thank the Lions Club Norway and the AIM delegation 2010, this has been a really great experience!
- Therese
Project Legal Aid
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