LEA will grow its Legal Empowerment Network into a powerful movement for justice. We will also aim to achieve transformative impact in Uganda. LEA will engage thousands of members in activities that advance the field of legal empowerment, including collaborative learning, programming, research, alliance-building and advocacy. We will support hundreds of grassroots women’s groups and organizations to meaningfully deepen their impact, sustainability and quality of their legal empowerment work. We will transform the policy environment for legal empowerment. In particular, we will work to ensure protection for women justice defenders at the local and national levels.
We will support women in protecting their customary land rights. We will change policy nationwide so that women who depend on the land have a meaningful voice in what happens to it. We will also train women on land law and persuading local governments to implement the law.
Women paralegals will help women to secure IDs. We will work to end discrimination in the administration of identity documents.
We will support women to understand health policy and to take action to address failures to comply. LEA will significantly reduce violations and democratize health governance nationwide though the empowerment of women on village health teams.
We shall empower women to use the law to find remedies when industrial projects violate environmental regulations, as well as to demand a more effective and participatory regulatory framework. We will significantly reduce environmental and social harm from mining, agricultural or development projects.
Our paralegals will support women farmers to navigate complex administrative processes for registering land. LEA will strive to replace a top-down repressive system of land governance with one that respects the experience and voice of women who depend directly on the land.
LEA is working to empower women vendors by equipping them with the knowledge, skills and resources to understand and assert their rights particularly regarding their trade, safety and economic security.
LEA supports women in the informal sector by equipping them with the knowledge, resources and legal standing to assert their rights, ensuring protection against exploitation and securing access to justice.
LEA works to equip women with the knowledge and tools to understand, claim, and defend their rights to bodily autonomy, health and freedom from violence.