Annual Report 2011 PBF JP 1 Peace Building through Justice for all and Human Rights

Annual Report 2011PBFJP 1 Peace Building through Justice for all and Human Rights

Outlines of the presentation • Overview of the Joint Programme: • Budget • Implementing agencies and budget • Overall objectives and outcomes • Overall of the result framework (statistics of outputs, indicators and activities) • Highlight of key achievements • Challenges; Lessons learned and priority actions for 2012

Overview of the Joint Programme • Total budget: USD 5,899,756 • Implementing agencies: • UNICEF - Leading agency for JP 1. Budget USD 3,088,372 • UNFPA. Budget USD 620,000 • UNDP. Budget: 1,451,937 • OHCHR. Budget: USD 739,447

OBJECTIVES and OUTCOME • Overall objective: to mitigate the triggers to conflict by: • Supporting the justice law and order institutions to be effective and to respect and protect the rights of the most vulnerable people ; • Strengthening the transitional justice capacities for mediation , peace building, conflict resolution and reconciliation; • Strengthening a systematic human rights and conflict monitoring system. • Outcome 1.1: Local Justice, law, order and security government institutions and services apply international human rights, justice and protection standards • Outcome 1.2: Transitional justice processes, mechanisms and capacities for mediation, peace building, conflict resolution and reconciliation facilitated • Outcome 1.3: Human rights and protection advocacy, monitoring and reporting capacity strengthened among civil society networks and independent national institutions

Overview of result framework • Outcome 1 (local JLOS institutions and services) has seven outputs, 12 output indicators and 32 activities • Outcome 2 ( transitional justice) has 4 outputs , four output indicators and 10 activities • Outcome 3 ( monitoring and reporting on human rights) has 4 outputs , 4 output indicators and 13 activities • From 55 activities, 30 of them (54%) should be jointly implemented by the UN agencies

HIGH LIGHT OF RESULTS 2011 JP Key achievements against Outcome 1:

HIGH LIGHT OF RESULTS 2011 JP Key achievements against Out Come 3:

CHALLENGES Overall challenges: • Delays in implementation. The late start of the Programme ( April – May) due the changes in the Programme logframe which lead to late disbursements of funds to individual UN agencies; • Less than 50% overall financial implementation. By the end of 2011 only 44.73% of the funds were disbursed; • 54% of planned activities require intense coordination and collaboration of four UN agencies and their implementing partners; • OHCHR has about 50,000 that the organization can not absorb by the end of June 2012;

CHALLENGES Operational challenges • The lack of quantitative data from some of the justice agencies on GBV survivors accessing the criminal justice system. • High Backlog of cases of children and women in courts due to the lack of Magistrate G2 in most districts. • High expectations of conflict-affected people and communities for transitional justice – mainly truth, recovery and reparation .

LESSONS LEARNED • Partnership between 4 UN agencies demonstrated the strong commitment of UN agencies to deliver as one; • Constant engagement with government agencies has been instrumental in the programme implementation so far and it is crucial for ensuring the sustainability of interventions implemented with PBF funds after the end of June 2012; • Involvement of different agencies with expertise in different areas also enhances the understanding of each of the agencies in others’ area of work;

LESSONS LEARNED • Land disputes remain a high trigger to conflict and formal justice system alone can not address it. People prefer the use the traditional justice system to solve their conflicts. Thus there is the need to support the formal justice institutions, especially the Magistrates 2 to provide oversight and guidance to the traditional justice courts to ensure that those are respecting the human rights especially of the most vulnerable women and children;

LESSONS LEARNED • Currently 85% of funds are committed and 10% of funds are commitment in pipe lines by end of June 2012. To make those commitments a reality all four UN agencies need to make extra efforts to ensure that the funds are disbursed by the end of June 2015.

PRIORITY ACTIONS 2012 • Overall: • Intense and regular monitoring of the programme implementation by the 4 UN agencies to avoid delays; • Joint activities to be given priority in implementation as they represent 54% of all planned activities; • Extra efforts to be made for increasing the achievement rate for the indicators for which the current achievement rate is below 50%; • Monthly coordination meetings of the UN agencies to be conducted in Kampala with the participation of the UN agencies representatives from the field;

PRIORITY ACTIONS 2012 Specific priority actions for 2012 • Intensify the support to UHRC in order to reduce the backlog of human rights cases that are in the courts; • Extend partnerships with CSOs working with youths and traditional leaders so that the critical mass of the most vulnerable youth are reached. • Completion of memorial space in Kitgum; • Support to be provided to districts police and judiciary for the implementation of diversion services for children in conflict with the law;

PRIORITY ACTIONS 2012 Specific priority actions for 2012 • Increase the number of districts that have integrated transitional justice mechanisms in the district plans and budgets; • Increase the number of GBV and Child Protection cases that are reported and fast tracked during justice process.

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Annual Report 2011 PBF JP 1 Peace Building through Justice for all and Human Rights