The LWF UPR Advocacy story from Geneva to Kampala and beyond; Translating Human Rights commitments in to reality

Harnessing the Universal Peer Review mechanism to transform Refugee and Host Communities in Uganda

In this report, we take a retreat, a step backwards, to take a keen look into the past, trace the journey of the project and its aspirations to inform the future. It is a challenge to ourselves characterized by one question: Did we deliver on our quest for transformation of peoples’ lives for the better?

The report demonstrates as practically as possible, through select case stories the impact of the project highlighting along the way, the diverse working strategies used to achieve them. The project highlighted the loopholes in the modes of delivery of LWF services which are largely approached in humanitarian angle devoid of an infusion with basic aspects of human rights. 

The project reveals that LWF’s heart for humanity is not in contestation, the same spirit could be leveraged to transform work methods by infusing therein various notions of human rights.

Beyond listing activities undertaken and a description of who attended them, this synthesized project story line sought to probe and provide a fairer image of what differences were caused or commenced to take shape in transformation of peoples’ lives. 

This project story line is based on various sources including project documentation such as activity reports etc. and purposively selected respondents for interviews.

LWF recognizes, nevertheless, that limited time of the project could curtail a meaningful appreciation of impact assessment. It is however, not entirely impossible, at least to begin the discussion.