A few days after attending the annual UN Forum on Business and Human Rights in Geneva, IPIS Business & Human Rights Analysts Anna Bulzomi and Gabriella Wass boarded a plane to Kampala, Uganda, to run a two-day training with ActionAid Uganda for businesses and NGOs on \u201cWhat does business & human rights mean, and how can we bring about a healthy relationship between the two?\u201d<\/p>\n
This document summarises some thoughts and observations from our 19 participating organisations, as well as providing snapshots of the current relationship between business and human rights in Uganda.<\/p>\n
The training provided a space for businesses and civil society to meet, get to know each other and take stock of what is being done to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights (UNGPs) in Uganda.<\/p>\n
The training was timely, as Uganda strives to identify pathways to benefit from its recently discovered oil without incurring in the so-called \u201cDutch disease\u201d (i.e. creating macroeconomic effects that hinder the non-oil economy and ultimately constrain economic diversification and development) and with a view to minimising difficulties to which oil operations may give rise.<\/p>\n