[{"bbox": [86, 153, 399, 183], "category": "Section-header", "text": "3.5 The Intervention Logic"}, {"bbox": [96, 199, 1160, 370], "category": "Text", "text": "The underlying logic behind this action is that democracy and human rights are mutually reinforcing, and that demand and supply for good governance should be tackled at the same time. A human rights-based approach provides the foundation of this intervention, public service delivery constitutes its tool, and improved governance is targeted in its outcome. Strengthening accountability in the public administration through a human rights-based approach is regarded as instrumental in advancing transparent and responsive forms of governance that uphold and promote inalienable rights and fundamental freedoms."}, {"bbox": [96, 387, 1160, 529], "category": "Text", "text": "While the action will work with national-level institutions, it will focus efforts specifically on regions of Uganda which are most in need of support¹¹. In so doing, good governance, human rights, accountability, gender and service delivery are integrated in a joint and coherent framework that enhances existing capacities and stakeholders in a targeted, regional manner. By prioritising support to digital solutions, the action will also have an impact beyond those regions specifically targeted."}, {"bbox": [96, 546, 1160, 689], "category": "Text", "text": "The intervention logic assumes that, (i) *IF* accountability and governance institutions are empowered through digital skills, monitoring and reporting capacities, interagency cooperation and public engagement; and (ii) *IF* citizens are more aware of their rights and better equipped in their monitoring and demands for good governance, *THEN* virtuous cycles of cooperation and feedback loops can emerge among supply and demand governance actors, ultimately leading to better governance outcomes."}, {"bbox": [96, 706, 1160, 792], "category": "Text", "text": "On the supply side of governance, *IF* accountability institutions are strengthened in delivering on their mandate, related to audit, procurement, anti-corruption, human rights or other, *THEN* citizen demands can be met by corresponding institutional capacities."}, {"bbox": [96, 809, 1160, 922], "category": "Text", "text": "On the demand side, *IF* citizens and local communities, including women, youth, people with disabilities and refugees, are empowered with better access to quality information, with enhanced awareness of their rights and responsibilities, and with stronger capacities for engagement for an effective service delivery, *THEN* their demands for accountability become more targeted and effective, at local as well as national level."}, {"bbox": [96, 939, 1160, 1082], "category": "Text", "text": "The intervention tackles these two dimensions of right holders/governance demand and duty bearers/governance supply in an integrated manner, building the social contract through improved citizen-government interaction. In this respect, activities undertaken to improve public and institutional engagement, digital or otherwise, will be seen in terms of fostering virtuous cycles and meeting points linking citizens and public bodies: actions stemming from each one of them will promote feedback loops from the other."}, {"bbox": [96, 1099, 1160, 1213], "category": "Text", "text": "The action will also seek to accompany stakeholders engaging on activities leading up to the 2026 elections. This support could include support for civic education and capacity building for young political leaders in complementarity with other actions (e.g. the Women and Youth in Democracy Initiative - WYDE). Activities will be based on an updated needs analysis and will be tailored to take account of the context ahead of the elections."}, {"bbox": [96, 1230, 1160, 1401], "category": "Text", "text": "Access to information and the quality of public awareness, engagement and debate are facilitated by promoting the role and capacity of the media, as well as by investing on digital skills and platfo rms. The action recognises that overlapping may result between activities fostering public bodies' engagement with citizens, on the one hand, and those promoting citizen and civil society organisations' engagement with public agencies, on the other hand. The intervention logic regards this overlapping in terms of meeting points and potential synergies for empowered supply and demand for good governance."}, {"bbox": [86, 1596, 1143, 1647], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹¹ The regions will be determined at the contracting stage based on the latest data available from the Uganda National Household Survey and other data sources on poverty, access to government services and access to digital technologies."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1681, 1143, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 16 of 25"}]