Access to Justice and Community reintegration

Access to Justice

ELOIM works closely together with other partners whose sole purpose/aim is to strengthen the quality of interventions, inclusiveness in program monitoring, policy-making, and strategy development plans that target and are relevant to men and women who have been unlawfully on remand without access to free and affordable justice for several months or even years.

Since 2010 when the legal aid clinic was established, ELOIM has both directly and indirectly reached over 800 disadvantaged persons in Uganda.

Sustainable Access to Justice for the unfairly imprisoned persons in Uganda. Our primary objective is to access justice for the prisoners with the aim of improving their wellbeing. We are encouraged by the willingness of other human rights individuals and agencies that support national human rights efforts. In a context in which all countries have pressing national concerns, we appreciate the continued commitment to civil rights operations in Uganda and the global response necessary to prevent injustice. Through this program, Access to Justice, ELOIM’s interests are in improving the quality of access to justice for our target constituencies and as such, strategies employed under this program are aimed at contributing to improving the quality of our services.

"There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has".

U.S Supreme Justice Hugo Black

The success of our fundraising campaigns will support among others, community consultation, policy advocacy, communication, and outreach training for underprivileged persons. These participants will be identified as the ambassadors of the other disadvantaged young men and women. ELOIM also supplements its efforts by building the capacity of paralegals and other resource persons identified by the respective underprivileged persons and Human Rights organizations and networks to be able to work within their communities to increase access to Justice. ELOIM also partners with mainstream human rights organizations and legal aid service providers to expand legal aid for these persons to provide mentorship. It also works with informal justice systems and traditional cultural structures to address injustices through mediation.

ELOIM has purposed to train its programs team routinely in its Community Paralegal Training Program. Having paralegals helps us to encompass a wide variety of tasks that are all focused on making a difference in legal proceedings, actions, research, hearings, and trials. Paralegals work with attorneys, judges, corporate firms, and government officials to handle everything from the initial contact with a client to the final filing of any paperwork with the appropriate agency. A diverse set of skills, experience, and knowledge is only be found at ELOIM. We must acknowledge the role of national NGOs and the national staff working with international organizations in fighting injustice. The achievements and victories in the fight for human rights and equality among other programs are our aspirations. We are grateful to each of the Community lawyers/Paralegals at partner organizations who tirelessly reach out to the less privileged persons even in rural communities around the country. The incredible work that each of them is doing in our communities and spheres of influence.

Community Reintegration

Our projects aim to address issues that challenge reintegration especially social stigma arising from negative attitudes and stereotypes towards former inmates and the reduce discriminating towards these individuals.

As part of its resilience in the ELOI invites CSOs registered of the interest to develop and conduct community projects to support reintegration of prisoners back into society. The program is broadly targeted towards communities, however, Concept notes sometimes include specific target audiences depending on the interventions and activities.

Holistic Approach

General features of our reintegration programs

ELOIM reintegration programs starts from the point of detention, and the whole period of detention to reinforce our aims.
We aim at change the cognitive, behavioral and attitudinal characteristics of the inmate. To this end critical thinking and problem solving skills are effective tools in restoring propaganda of possible recruiters. Religious counseling is also of value, both for the inmate and the family. Strengthening education and employment opportunities through basic courses and vocational training is also of fundamental importance. We at ELOI emphasis this.
Counseling forms part of a more general program to monitor and evaluate changes in the attitude, behavior and environment of the offender.

Scope

Capacity building of families and communities through sustainable interventions.
Activities promoting and supporting bridging prisoners or drug dependent persons with their families and communities.
Programs for employers to create employment opportunities and training, and assist in providing gainful employment for those leaving prison or rehabilitation centers

Monitoring & Evaluation

We continuously assess and evaluate our programs/projects.
We have an external independent and knowledgeable evaluator.
The acceptance of the program to the beneficiary is a main indicator of potential.
In some cases, monitoring continues for an extended period after release and may involve religious and psychological counseling sessions for both the beneficiaries and their families. Our regular reviews help us decide if the monitoring needs extending or if the beneficiary is completely free. However the engagement and the assistance of the program may continue until she or he can be independent.

Our Mission

To bring dignity and hope to men, women and children in African communities through health care, education, access to justice and community re-integration.

Our Vision

Hope for an African Child, the ability to restore the rights and position of an African Child.

Education

Access To Justice & Community Re-integration

Health

Environment and Climate Change

Buwenge Hospital

The institution is set up to provide quality health services: preventive, curative and health promotive such as counseling services with an aim of improving the quality of health in the community in Jinja district.

Women Empowerment

Interventions geared to improve the position of women in society and to enable them become financially independent have been employed to tackle the issue of gender discrimination.

ELOI Junior School Project

Child Protection Programme

A child is a person under the age of 18 years. Under this age, a child is supposed to be protected from all forms of abuse like child labor, child sex abuse, child sacrifice, child literacy among other

Education Programme

Despite the introduction of Universal Primary and Secondary Education (UPE, USE) by the government to mitigate the problem of access to education, new challenges have developed that affect the education sector in Uganda

Function Adult Literacy & Leadership(FALL) Programme

Despite numerous efforts and interventions by the government and other organizations, there is simply not enough of everything available to realize the right to education for every child.

HIV/AIDS Project

HIV/AIDS is an important public health issue affecting the people living in Uganda. HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is a virus that is responsible for causing AIDS

School Outreach

(United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization) has reported that Uganda has the largest number of school dropouts in the region .

Rural Development

Rural areas in Uganda are less developed compared to urban areas. It has been found that the reason for the underdevelopment of rural areas is because of the migration of young people from villages to towns in search of better employment opportunities

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