CEFORD Empowering Local & National HUM CEFORD will support -The goal of the project is to save lives, reduce suffering and protect human dignity for female as well as male refugees and host community members in West Nile sub-region of Uganda.
CEFORD will provide humanitarian leadership in West Nile region (sub regions) and encourage local partners to work collectively, towards complementarity, coherence and harmonization of service delivery; convene and facilitate regular coordination meetings among the humanitarian actors and ensure that they are well-managed, action and results-oriented.
# Capacity development: Identifying the local humanitarian actors in Arua and Koboko districts from Government, Civil Society <(>&<)> Private sector for collaboration as well as supporting those actors in theircapacity building effort based on identified needs.
# Design and implement interventions: With guidance from Oxfam, lead the design of capacity building plans with local actors and support operationalization of the Humanitarian contingency plans in liaison with the District and other humanitarian actors.
# Policy influencing: Work with existing platforms to lobby and advocate for improved service delivery, pro-active actors in humanitarian service delivery.
# Learning, Reporting and documentation: Ensuring effective information sharing among local actors and with OXFAM. Disseminate relevant materials, reports, documentations, meeting minutes etc. Ensure all the partners are informed about field level and regional level coordination meetings and events;support peer to peer learning among the local actors in Arua and Koboko using existing structures, networks and other platforms.

Empowering Local and National Humanitarian Actors (ELNHA) Project is to be implemented over three years commencing January2016 in 6 disaster prone districts of: Kotido, Kaabong, Lamwo, Agago, Koboko and Zombo. These districts face challenges from climate change induced prolonged droughts and food insecurity as well asrefugee influx as a result of the conflicts in the neighbouring countries (South Sudan, CAR and DRC). By the project design Oxfam will strengthen the capacity of local and national humanitarian actors, so that they can lead humanitarian action in Uganda. We will work to give them the voice to create a strong domestic humanitarian agenda, by giving them the opportunity to design and implement quality humanitarian programs. The program will also create the space by influencing other international NGOs and donors to contribute to this systemic change. We expect at the end of the project to see; Capable Local and National Humanitarian Actors (LNHA) in Uganda play a leading role in humanitarian work, putting the interest of women, men and children affected by disaster at the center.
ToKick start this process Oxfam conducted the fresh HuCoCa Analysis some of whose recommendations were adopted by stakeholders duringthe regional validation and dissemination workshops. The output from the validation meetings was the regional agenda for influencing and capacity building at local and national level. These action plans have been consolidated by the three lead actors to develop aproposal for capacity building and setting the influencing agenda at regional and national level.