West Nile Humanitarian Response Committee
Project Brief
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SLOGBAA (Strengthening structures for Local Government, Budgeting,
Advocacy & Accountability)
15 Months
The intervention will directly benefit 35 youth leaders, 480 community
youths 160 institutional actors’ representatives and 40 Local Government
officials all gender sensitive.
Yumbe and Mayuge Districts
4 Sub Counties (2 per District) and 4 Parishes (2 per Sub County)
This project is conducted to the fact that many political leaders at the local
government levels are unable to effectively debate and influence planning and
budgeting as both processes are highly technical and require to be debated in
English, this undermines the principle of representative democracy as they are
unable to eloquently present and defend the interests and ideas of the
community who majority are youth; Let alone understanding what is being
debated. And most youth not getting a chance to get involved in politics and
leadership due to over stay in power by the senior leaders also impends on the
expression democracy of not only the youth but the entire community. Also
with the absence of platforms that can inform and empower and educate
communities about their roles in the leadership systems and how they
function, there is a huge knowledge and application gap that urgently needs to
be filled. SLOGBAA therefore seeks to address several underlying factors
that limit effective youth leader and community representation at these and
other levels of governance in Uganda, and bridging this gap can achieved
through mobilizing and capacitating the community and local government
leaders with knowledge, skills and methods on how to use their positions to
present and represent the issues arising in their communities, how to influence
and also get the youth to actively get involved in participating in their local
government leadership and development issues.
The project’s overall aim is to pilot and develop a grassroots based structure
for mobilization, capacitating, mentoring and long-term motivation of youth
leaders and youth policy makers at the lower local government level (parish
& sub county) in understanding how; Local Governments operate, what their
roles as leaders in this system are, understanding processes around budget
allocations, decision making, and how one gets youth issues into the
decision/policy agenda, as well as advocacy for & influence of policy. We
call this the SLOGBAA model (Strengthening structures for Local
Government, Budgeting, and Advocacy & Accountability).
1. To mobilizing and capacitate (with skills, methods, mentoring,
motivation) at least 60 youth and CSOs leaders to be better fitted to carry
out their roles in local governance representation and policy making.
2. To facilitate more regular popular interfaces between the youth leaders
and youths they represent in their local government jurisdictions, as a
way of systematizing the need for increasing their accountability to their
 constituencies, and providing platforms for policy inputs.
3. Facilitate the development of strong grassroots-based policy inputs,
analysis, discussion, commentary, information development, and
evidence-based engagements, through initiating a Community Journalists
Volunteers (CJV) program.
Project outcomes i. The project generally aims at opening spaces and opportunities for young
people, especially in contexts that are marginalized to voluntarily take on a
more active citizenship approach towards more effective performance of
their local governments and leaders.
ii.Capacitated leaders with increased knowledge tools and motivation to
organize, lobby, and advocate for their communities.
iii. Youth leaders with acquired skills on access to the power resources
involved in policy processes.
iv. Increased engagement of the youths in the local communities and
Spaces for leaders meeting with local communities/youths will increase
active citizenship and engagement.
v.Spaces for meetings with other actors will create a more coordinated system
for active citizenship, voluntarism and freewill to engage in community life
and dialogue as well as sustainability of the framework.
vi. The Community Development Officers (CDOs) of each district
becoming more fundamental in mobilizing and supporting more active
community engagement in development.
vii. The community journalism program being itself voluntary based will
bring commonly unheard-of young people at the center stage of blogging,
analyzing, reporting, and telling stories from these local communities.

Project activities 1. Implementing a training workshop in four modules of the SLOGBAA

framework which include, (i). Foundations of active citizenship, (ii).
Understanding the Local Governance and my role in it, (iii).
Understanding the Local Government budgeting process, (iv).
Advocacy and accountability.
https://civilconnections.org/slogbaa/.
2. Run quarterly youth leaders mentoring, motivating and clarification
sessions. These will builds not only their knowledge but also their
confidence to do their job which is extremely central in changing the
power structuring within the local governments.
3. To facilitate more regular popular interfaces between the youth
leaders and the youths they represent in their local government
jurisdictions in form of quarterly round tables and meetings, as a way
of systematizing the need for increasing their accountability to their
constituencies, and providing platforms for policy inputs from the
youths.
4. Facilitate quarterly meetings between the youth leaders and other
youth related institutional actors in each district here including but
not limited to; Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), schools,
Community Based Organizations (CBOs) etc., as a way of creating
opportunities for the leaders to hear/gather inputs from these actors as
well as provide updates to such actors regarding policy stipulations
that matter to them.
5. Facilitate the development of strong grassroots-based policy inputs,
analysis, discussion, commentary, information development, and
 evidence-based engagements, through initiating a Community
Journalists Volunteers (CJV) program. These will be trained and will
support the project and leaders with information gathering, analysis,
engagement for the project’s 15 months.
Contact persons at WNHRC Name: Franco Rashid
Secretariat Title: Project officer
Email: francorashid0gmail.com
Mobile No. 0785248246