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  • Organisation

    Global Rights Alert (GRA) is a Civil Society Organisation whose mission is to make natural resources benefit the people. GRA is committed to ensuring that men, women and young people benefit from the sustainable exploitation of natural resources.

    GRA work is rooted in governance and human rights framework which considers challenging inequality and injustice as central to inclusive development. GRA’s work empowers communities to negotiate for more equitable benefit sharing regimes, influence decisions that impact on their lives and mitigate conflicts and human rights abuses associated with the exploitation of natural resources.

    GRA vision is to become East Africa’s leading civil society organization defending and promoting human and community resource rights in the extractives industry.

    • Organisation

      Global Rights Alert (GRA) is a Civil Society Organisation whose mission is to make natural resources benefit the people. GRA is committed to ensuring that men, women and young people benefit from the sustainable exploitation of natural resources.

      GRA work is rooted in governance and human rights framework which considers challenging inequality and injustice as central to inclusive development. GRA’s work empowers communities to negotiate for more equitable benefit sharing regimes, influence decisions that impact on their lives and mitigate conflicts and human rights abuses associated with the exploitation of natural resources.

      GRA vision is to become East Africa’s leading civil society organization defending and promoting human and community resource rights in the extractives industry.

    • Project

      Uganda is in the process of joining the Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). This  Harnessing Diversity for an Inclusive EITI Agenda project promotes an inclusive and participatory EITI accession process for Uganda.

      It has two objectives:

      1)To create and deepen the understanding of EITI among CSOs, Local authorities and citizen groups for meaningful participation in the UGEITI ongoing process

      2. To enhance coordination of civil Society interventions in EITI processes for Uganda.

      The project is being undertaken by three partners; Global Rights Alert-as the project leader, Publish What You Pay-Uganda and Civil Society Coalition on Oil and Gas (CSCO) as co implementers.

      The consortium undertakes a process of dialogue and consensus-building in six geographical regions and reaches out to women, young people, local government representatives in oil, gas and mining districts, CSOs, ASMs, Academia, PWDs and other citizen groups on the utility and relevance of adopting EITI, and initial ideas of how to implement EITI.

      The feedback from this consensus-building informs UGEITI’s implementation of the work plan and decision on key areas of focus for Uganda. At the national level, the project engages members of Uganda’s Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) to build their capabilities

      The project also engages relevant stakeholders and runs a media campaign to inform the populace about EITI and its relevancy as a tool for transparency and accountability in extractives. The project contributes to bridging the gap between citizens’ agencies and MSG for better voicing of views, concerns and solutions.

  • Project

    Uganda is in the process of joining the Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). This  Harnessing Diversity for an Inclusive EITI Agenda project promotes an inclusive and participatory EITI accession process for Uganda.

    It has two objectives:

    1)To create and deepen the understanding of EITI among CSOs, Local authorities and citizen groups for meaningful participation in the UGEITI ongoing process

    2. To enhance coordination of civil Society interventions in EITI processes for Uganda.

    The project is being undertaken by three partners; Global Rights Alert-as the project leader, Publish What You Pay-Uganda and Civil Society Coalition on Oil and Gas (CSCO) as co implementers.

    The consortium undertakes a process of dialogue and consensus-building in six geographical regions and reaches out to women, young people, local government representatives in oil, gas and mining districts, CSOs, ASMs, Academia, PWDs and other citizen groups on the utility and relevance of adopting EITI, and initial ideas of how to implement EITI.

    The feedback from this consensus-building informs UGEITI’s implementation of the work plan and decision on key areas of focus for Uganda. At the national level, the project engages members of Uganda’s Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) to build their capabilities

    The project also engages relevant stakeholders and runs a media campaign to inform the populace about EITI and its relevancy as a tool for transparency and accountability in extractives. The project contributes to bridging the gap between citizens’ agencies and MSG for better voicing of views, concerns and solutions.

  • Results

    The Project deepened the understanding of Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative among CSOs, local governments and citizen groups and this has enabled them to meaningful engage in the initial EITI processes. The capacity of the Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) members has been improved and there is a better consolidated Civil Society efforts on the EITI through the two consortium conveners (Publish What You Pay (PWYP) and Civil Society Coalition on Oil and gas (CSCO). Terms of reference for the CSO representatives were approved and members for to the EITI members selected. The project also enabled community and MSG interfaces and this broadened the discussions. Women and young people are more active and the capacity of CSO representatives to negotiate and engage has improved. CSO representatives are informing discussions within the MSG, consulting and providing feedback to their constituencies. This helps capture a variety of views and building consensus among players in the sector. A UGEITI  work plan integrating the views of the citizenry is in place.  

    Public interest in EITI has improved as evidenced by the number of media articles by members of public, media houses and CSOs.

    There are improved relations among CSOs, government and oil companies when engaging on EITI because of the platforms provided by the project. Local communities are showing interest in EITI by asking questions related to compensation, resettlement and how the EITI addresses these immediate realities. Currently Artisanal and small scale miners were demanding to be represented on the MSG National and Local media, CSOs in local – national coalitions, government ministries, Uganda EITI secretariat, the Kingdom, mining associations as well as community based monitors. 

    “Following the discussions on the corporate accountability from the EITI framework women groups raised a concern over false corporate social responsibility. The women petitioned the Local council 5, 3 and the SBC the company contracted to contract the Kibaale oil airport over the incident. As such, the company decided to commission the construction of the borehole and in Feb 2021 the CSR project was completed. The communities can now access clean water as result of holding the SBC company to account for project” – Project Team. 

     

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