By Naomi Ayot Oyaro, Executive Director of CAPAIDS Uganda and Tais Siqueira, Local Leadership Lab Coordinator at CIVICUS
In Uganda, local communities are routinely sidelined in development processes, despite knowing most about their own needs. When a Moroto District officer remarked, ‘This is the first time local leaders were truly heard’, it offered a powerful reminder of what so often goes wrong: development fails when communities are excluded.
At CAPAIDS, in partnership with CIVICUS, we have had the opportunity to engage local actors countrywide to undertake collective analyses of what is going well and not so well in development, and articulate key asks. Under the initial phase of our project, we organised intentional and safe spaces for over 200 local and national actors and local government representatives in all seven regions of Uganda.
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