Retooling the Foot Peace Ambassadors in Consesus Building

It's Our culture to work closely with gov't. below is Senior District Development Officer-Kamwenge (MOLLY HARRIET) sharing government programs with Peace Ambassadors during the training. she assured participants that organized CBOs will be accessing government programs, Commended the job well done on the shared achievements by the FPAs.  

KALI in partnership with RWECO and HIVOS are jointly implementing a project on community actions to prevent and manage conflicts and human rights violations in Ruwenzori region. The project is funded by European Union. The overall project objective is to facilitate actions to ensure an increased and coordinated involvement of well-informed citizens to prevent and manage conflicts, monitor and take action to improve the human rights situations in the Rwenzori region of Uganda. This project is implemented in the Districts of; Kamwenge, Ntoroko, Bundibugyo and Kasese. KALI is specifically implementing this in Kamwenge District in the five sub counties of; Ntara, Nyabani, Kahunge, Busiriba & Nkoma.

In the sub counties mentioned, 10 CBOs (Youth & women groups) were mapped and each fronted one person (Foot Peace Ambassador-FPA) who was trained in key approaches to promote community actions on Conflict prevention and Human Rights Violations. In order to strengthen their capacity, reawakening training was held in Kamwenge at a central place.

This activity aimed at retooling the FPAs to train members of CBOs at their level in Basics on Human Rights and consensus building/Mediation as key in conflict prevention at community level.

Part of the training, Peace ambassadors shared milestones achieved since the project started 2016. In the sharing, they have successfully engaged on 28 Land related conflicts (10 in Kahunge, 12 in Busiriba, 03 in Ntara, 03 from Nkoma and Nyabani). Land issues are the highly rated source of conflict in Kamwenge both at household and community level. Other issues attended to were of Domestic Violence nature.

Pic below shows a peace ambassador from Ntara S/C sharing milestones

Peace ambassadors and their CBOs reached out to communities through Community meetings, Neighborhood assemblies, games & Sports and churches all with a massage of peaceful co-existence in communities. Religious leaders have been engaged at all levels of sharing & training. They have free weekly congregations one of the sustainable ways of promoting Peace & sensitization on issues of human rights Violations.

The Foot Peace Ambassadors will be training their CBO members, continue promoting massage of peaceful co-existence,Report cases of Human rights violations & work closely with government structures including police for capital cases in their sub counties.


Compiled by

Bwambale Geoffrey 

Programs Officer KALI