Rights, Access and Justice: A strategy for transformation is the Country Strategy Paper for ActionAid International Uganda for the period 2006 to 2010. It is the third strategy since ActionAid commenced work in Uganda in 1982.

The strategy was developed to respond more meaningfully with renewed commitment to increasing poverty and injustice. It guides ActionAid’s work in Uganda and also provides the basis upon which the organisation’s work will be evaluated. 

ActionAid is committed to a world without poverty and injustice in which every person enjoys their right to dignity.

The organisation employs a rights-based approach informed by the understanding that extreme poverty, exclusion and injustices are caused by power structure relationships that defraud humans of their basic rights.

At ActionAid we place people at the center of all our interventions and programmes.

ActionAid Uganda believes it is imperative to create greater solidarity, coalition and collaboration with other development activists working for the rights of poor and excluded people including social movements.

The organisation works in partnerships with other actors including a wide range of civil society organisations, academic and research institutions, community-based organisations, the media and other players in the fight against poverty. ActionAid also engages government at all levels. 

This strategy signals our commitment built on shared experiences to seek a proactive approach to building and living in a better Uganda.

ActionAid Uganda is deepening its work by increasing its capacity and knowledge around rights-based work and effective partnerships.

• Taking sides with poor and marginalised people and communities;
• Support to a global movement against poverty and injustice through linking people across political boundaries, including sponsorship and solidarity linkages;
• Respect for equity – particularly gender equity – and diversity;
• Accountability to all stakeholders, particularly poor and marginalised people and communities we work with, donors, supporters and volunteers;
• Critical engagement and, where necessary, confrontation with people and institutions that cause poverty, injustice and insecurity;
• Coherence, synergy and unity of our collective action;
  Responsive, effective, efficient, participatory and non-bureaucratic ways of working;
• Active collaboration and partnerships particularly with the diverse range of civil society organisations;
• Rigour and depth of analysis as well as active sharing of learning and knowledge.