Under The Westminster Consortium for Parliament and Democracy which was established to support the implementation of sustainable capacity building within Parliaments, Foundation for Human Rights Initiative in partnership with the Westminster Foundation for Democracy is implementing a 4 year capacity building programme between 2009 and 2013. FHRI will deliver the module on the ‘Rule of Law Development programme” with an objective of focussing on enhancing Parliament’s role in upholding the constitution, rule of law and human rights in Uganda and the effectiveness of parliament in upholding the constitution, the rule of law and human rights.

Activities under the programme:

1.      Conduct a baseline survey on the effectiveness of Parliament in upholding human rights;

2.      Development of a course curriculum to support the Parliament Courses,

3.      Training of Trainers workshop to ground the trainers on the programme; and

4.      Parliamentary Courses conducted on both procedural and human rights discourse.