CEFORD Capacity Development Fund CEFORD  is a local actor based in WwestNile with Headquaters in ARUA implementing the ELNHA coordination role and humanitarian capacity fund with -The goal 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, Koboko and Yumbe 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.

By the project design Oxfam  working along with the Lead Partners like CEFORD 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 createS the space by influencing other international NGOs and donors to contributeto this systemic change. The expectation at the end of the project to see; Capable Local and National Humanitarian Actors (LNHA) inUganda play a leading role in humanitarian work, putting the interest of women, men and children affected by disaster at the center.

The project would like to be part ofthis campaign agenda to shift humanitarian assistance usually led by UN agencies and international NGOs to domestic actors which are usually perceived to lack, the skills, systems and financial resources needed to carry out effective response.
Project Goal: To contribute to strengthening the capacity of District Local Governments and LocalNon-GovernmentalActors to respond to humanitarian action in Arua,Koboko and Arua Districts of WestNile.
Project aims to realise the following:
# Improved humanitarian planning and response of District Local Governments and Local Non-Governmental Actors to lead a strong domestic humanitarian agenda.
# Increased access to information on humanitarian emergencies.

# Enhanced capacity of local actors to influence thecentral government, international NGOs and donors to endorse and fund local actors#humanitarian action initiatives

A total of 21 Local actors are targeted in the 3 districts of Arua,Yumbe and Koboko in WestNile region.