DRT Capacity building of ELNHAs in DRR DRT - The project title: Capacity building of Local and national humanitarian actors in disaster risk reduction, preparedness and Integration
The 1-year project aims  to strengthen capacities of local and national humanitarian actors in disaster risk reduction,preparedness and  management. To  be implemented in six districts of Agago, Arua, Lamwo, Kabong, Koboko and Kotido as well as nationalengagements at Kampala level

Project purpose:
To strengthen the humanitarian system in Uganda and to promotesustainable comprehensive humanitarian response and disaster risk reduction, integration, skills, education and learning in Uganda which is accessible andsustainable to local humanitarian actors especially at the District level.

The identified problemto be addressed by the project:
In the  recent HuCoca and the DRT conducted needs assessment it is clear that local governments have glaring capacity gaps to plan and implement disaster risk reduction and management. The most important of these capacitygaps pertain to weak and non-functional systems and structures for DRRM. Specifically, the proposed project will focus on filling the following gaps:

i) Non-functional and/ orvery weak District Disaster Management Committees (DDMCs).
ii) Lack of updated (if any) DRR plans.
iii) Lack of connectedness between humanitarian and development planning at local government levels - local governments do not have enough space to reflect and planhumanitarian strategies and are often constrained to the implementation of plans/programs from the national level.
iv) Learning andknowledge management is non-existent to the extent that only few staff have received humanitarian training, and implementation doesnot feed into any learning processes for both state and non-state actors.
Approach for Implementation
The overall capacity development approach that DRT proposes to use is process facilitation using participatory methods. This approach uses hands-on skills building focussing on the application of tools andmethods. DRT shall support the target district local governments and selected non-state actors through the different stages of project implementation, from defining/ clarifying capacity development goals, and the specific actions that will lead to achievement of those goals; and together review progress periodically until the review and learning processes at the end of the project.

Key activities:
i) To profile and harmonise understanding of the efforts with the Local Governments
ii) Strengthen capacities of local governments and selected  interested LNHAs in humanitarian situational assessment, sector specific risks and vulnerability mapping and integration of DRRM in development plans and programmes
iii) Support LNHAs to utilize the humanitarianintegration model to mainstream disasters into development plans and programmes
iv) Facilitate 2 week quarterly exchange learning programs with humanitarian actors. 12 persons (3 per quarter) shall benefit from this mentoring action.  These persons shallbe selected from the 6 districts together with the LG officers and ELNHA partners.
v) Explore key learning resources and establish a humanitarian knowledge and learning platform such as a humanitarian resource center
Primary beneficiaries: The projectwill primarily focus on local humanitarian actors based at the districts. The will include both state and non-state local actors. These will be the local government officials, specifically heads of departments/ sectors from each of the six districts, theDDMC, the sub county disaster management committee (SC DMC), Parish Disaster Management Committees (PDMCs), and the Disaster Policy Committees where they exist.