From Access to Equality (FATE) : Empowering Women to Access Justice in Uganda.

The FATE project is a four-partner consortium that commenced in 2021 and will end in 2025. Avocats Sans Frontieres is the lead partner co-implementing with (Uganda Women Network (UWONET), Barefoot Law (BFL) and Penal Reform International (PRI). The primary beneficiaries are Ugandan women and girls seeking justice, with an emphasis on adolescent girls, female survivors of Sexual Gender-Based Violence (SGBV), women in rural areas, women with HIV, women who face particular barriers in their communities and Women with Disability (WWD), for whom structural challenges to access justice are amplified and women migrating within Uganda. This project contributes directly to the Sustainable Development Goals 5 (Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls), 10 (Reduce inequality within and among countries) and 16 (Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels). The FATE Project accordingly, seeks to create an enabling environment that responds to the unique justice needs of women and girls with two specific objectives developed: Specific Objective 1: Women are in a position to demand justice, Specific Objective 2: Decision makers mobilise to make women and girls’ rights effective.