KAPDA Empowering Local & National HUM KAPDA: Project Title: Access to safe water, promotion of peaceful co-existence and livelihoods improvement for the cross boarder communities in Kaabong District.
The project is a result of written request by the District Disaster Management Committee ofKaabong District to the Office of the Prime Minister of Uganda and all the development partners to intervene to the various humanitarian needswhere during the month of July and August 2016, 328 (female- 175, Male 153) refugees from Kikilae, Lorema and Payam etc. in Budi County and Chukudum counties of Namorunyang state of Eastern Equatorial province of South Sudan moved into Kaabong district.
Similarly, in the month of Sept to March every year, over 1500 Turkana (comprising women, children, men and elderly) and over 5000 heads of cattle migrate in to the border sub-counties of Loyoro, Lodiko, Kalapata and Kamion sub-counties of Kaabong district. The main reasonfor the immigration is to access water and pasture for their cattle. In the past, the numberof people and cattle involved were veryfew because by that time the effects of climate change were not much felt as today.  During their immigration within Kaabong district, the following problems are experienced: killings, abductions, rape of young girls, violent clashes between the Turkana and the Dodoth, outbreak of cattle diseases which spreads to the rest of the cattle in the other sub-counties of Kaabong, reduced land for cultivation, destruction of crops in those sub-counties, over loading/over useand break down of the few boreholes in those sub-counties, contamination of boreholes, etc.
Proposed intervention:
The project to be implemented in partnership with DOCAHWA and the District Disaster Management committee of Kaabong District will focusonaddressing the problems faced by the South Sudanese refugees and theproblems arising from the immigration of the Turkana nomads in to Kaabong district.
The project will aim at the following outputs:improving access to safe water by facilitating 15district hand pump mechanics to repair 20 non-functional boreholes in  selected  sub-counties where the South Sudanese refugees are settled and where the Turkana are settled together with the Dodoth pastoralists; KAPDA will facilitate Dodoth Community AnimalHealth Workers Association (a local CBO) in Kaabong to conduct a rapid assessment of theanimal diseases and make an emergency vaccination to the most affected sub-counties (especially those that co-exist) with the Turkana  in affected  sub-counties, theproject will also implement vulnerable persons# protection activities such as training of sub-county peace and protection  committees on protection of vulnerable persons to enhance the safety of girls, children from abuses such asforced marriages and child labor and other forms of SGBV like widow inheritances, etc.  furthermore, the project will also facilitate the RDC and other members of the District Peace Committees and sub-county peace structures to carry out sensitization of the Turkana and Dodoth in the target sub-counties to promote peaceful co-existence, Dodoth #Turkana peace building dialogues, support the sub-counties to document the immigrants with all their cattle, etc.
Goal of the project:   A prosperous cross-border community living harmoniously.
Expected outcomes of the project:
1. Access to clean and safe water improved among the South Sudanese refugee and hosting communities/Turkana-Dodoth pastoralists.
2. Improved peaceful co-existence among the South Sudan refuges, Dodoth andTurkana pastoralists.
3. Improved animal health among the Pastoralists (Turkana and Dodoth) that co-exist in the sub-counties of Loyoro, Kalapata and Kamion.