Addressing Root Causes - Regional Learning Sessions in Uganda and Burundi

This report highlights the key outcomes of the Addressing Root Cause (ARC) Regional Learning and Exchange Events that took place from May 17 to May 19, 2022, in Bujumbura, Burundi, and from 24 to 16 May 2022 in Kampala, Uganda. 
The ARC fund (2016-2021) has been the latest centrally managed tender program that the MFA’s department for Stabilization and Humanitarian Aid (DSH) launched and managed for addressing root causes of conflict and irregular migration through “bottom up” civil society engagement in fragile states.

Now that the ARC programme has ended, the ARC partners organized, with the support of the MFA and the Knowledge Platform for Security and Rule of Law, two regional learning events to identify and reflect  on lessons learned. The events were organized and co-hosted by Help a Child-Burundi (Red Een Kind),  ZOA, and the KPSRL. Around 60 participants mostly from country-based organizations took part in the  learning events, chosen from those who have contributed to the implementation of ARC programs in  Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Mali. Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan. Representatives from the Dutch Embassy in Goma, DRC, also participated at the learning event in 
Burundi.