Programmes
human rights and environment
law and governance
trade and investment
This programme focuses on addressing public policy issues that relate to recognition and observance of human rights at all levels of society
The programme seeks to balance the demand and supply sides of governance by promoting reforms that promote constitutionalism, rule of law, transparency and accountability
The programme promotes a policy and political environment for fair trade and investment opportunities for small and medium enterprises as a key to unlock economic growth.
PROJECTS
Community land security projects - 1,2 and 3
community extractives governance
securing communal land rights projects - 1,2 and 3
These projects ran between December 2013 to December 2017. The objectives of the projects were;To empower the local people in areas of petroleum potential to demand and enforce their tenure and associated rights of access to land resources and To Promote Respect, Protection and Redress of Land Rights of Communities in the Albertine Region.
The Community Extractives Governance Project (CEGP) was a 3 year project entirely supported by the DGF. It commenced on 1st April 2018 and will end on 31st April 2021. The overall objective of the project was to promote equitable utilization and sustainable governance of natural resources for social transformation.
The projects were funded by AJWS and they were implemented in Hoima and Buliisa districts. The main objective was to harness models for effective management of common property resources. CRED implemented interventions needed to protect common property resources in the districts.
DGD project
This project is implemented in partnership with Avocats Sans Frontiers (ASF) in the Albertine region. The overall objective is to empower vulnerable groups to act by improving their access to justice.
SUCCESS STORIES
Rural Electrification Agency compensates locals after a long wait
In May 2016 CRED received complaints from locals in Kisaru/Nyaigugu village kimbugu parish, Kabwoya sub county – Hoima district against Rural Electrification Agency (REA) claiming they had neither been consulted nor compensated for the properties and crops destroyed while laying electric poles. CRED reported the matter to REA and called upon the officials to pay the locals which they eventually did.
Betrayed wife gets Justice
Joan Mbabazi a mother of three from Bujumbura, East Northern ward, Hoima municipality had lost all hope of ever recovering her land after the husband sold it behind her back. CRED supported her to file a court case and the husband was ordered to pay her and she acquired another piece of land.
Hoima Tycoon agrees to return part of land to the community
CRED supported over 250 families who had for over two years been held up in an IDP camp in Kakopo village, Hoima district to regain their land. The people moved to the camp following an eviction from their land in Rwamutonga, Bugambe-Hoima district.
CRED successfully resolves a land dispute between Kigwera Miracle church and a one Yeremia
BabyendaYeremia, a resident of Kigwera West village in Buliisa district inherited the land in question from his late father Yeremia Kiiza. Before his father’s death in 1993, he donated land to Kigwera Miracle church and an agreement was signed. Yeremia was at loggerheads with the church leaders trying to repossess the land. CRED lawyers mediated and they were able to reach an agreement