Resource Rights Africa

Civil society organizations in Uganda are at crossroads as the civic space keeps shrinking. The current situation requires CSO actors requires efforts to support each other in times of need. Through our online Rights Violations Incident Tracker (RVIT), many rights violations have been registered in the Karamoja Region that the officials from the National Coalition Of Human Rights Defenders - Uganda were briefed about during a fact finding mission to Karamoja Sub-Region. We are grateful of the support from NCHRD-U! Edward Serucaca JnrBob KirengaDanchurchaidDreikönigsaktion der Katholischen JungscharHorn of Africa Civil Society Forum

On March 18, 2021 the State Minister for Minerals Sarah Opendi launched the USD$20million aerial mineral magnetic survey on the resource rich Karamoja sub region. The deal was awarded to Xcalibur, a company from Spain. The money from the Corporate Internationalization Fund of Spain is meant to complete the country’s mineral profile survey. The scope of the project is to acquire process, interpret and deliver high-quality resolution Magnetic-Radiometric, Gravimetric, Electromagnetic Survey and its complementary Geological and Geochemical study data.

It is hoped that this development will grow investor confidence, shake off speculators and elevate the country on a commercial pedestal for harnessing the mineral resources in Karamoja sub-region.

There have been corruption allegations at the highest level surrounding the project right from the start. Therefore, as stakeholders we need to keenly follow the project activities to ensure that there is transparency and accountability for the loan funds and that the people of Karamoja realize tangible results from their minerals resources.

Community consultations through Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) is at the heart of Resource Rights Africa (RRA) in understanding community issues that inform our regional and national multi-stakeholder dialogues on our thematic areas of work i.e. natural resource governance; business and human rights; tax justice in extractive sector among others. As a result, our work in Karamoja sub-region working with the Tepeth (So) indigenous community is now bearing fruit in the limestone value chain DanchurchaidEuropean Union in Uganda

There is need to entrench Responsible Business Conduct (RBC) in the private sector in Uganda.

Teso fruit farmers frustrated as factory fails to meet expectations Farmers still decry low market prices despite the establishment of the fruit factory to solve this very challenge