JAP`s current work propels around five core programs namely;
1. Atrocity prevention Programme
This entails upstream, midstream and downstream interventions aimed at preventing break-out, escalation, continuation and recurrence of violent conflicts and the perpetration of atrocity crimes. The strategies employed includes capacity building, awareness-raising, research and documentation, utilization of regional and international mechanisms, and coalition-building.
2. Preventing and countering violent Extremism Programme
This includes a series of interventions aimed at supporting the state to actualize the UN Plan of Action against Violent Extremism. The strategies employed includes capacity building, awareness-raising, research and documentation, utilization of regional and international mechanisms, and coalition-building. JAP offers livelihood support as a strategy for countering the radicalization of vulnerable groups into violent extremism.
3. Prevention of Statelessness Programme
This includes interventions aimed at prevention of statelessness in Uganda in concert with the Global action Plan to End statelessness: 2014-2024. The strategies employed includes capacity building, awareness-raising, research and documentation, utilization of regional and international mechanisms, and coalition-building. JAP offers livelihood support vulnerable groups of statelessness.
4. Countering Hate/Dangerous Speech Programme
This entails a series of interventions geared to monitoring, preventing and countering hate/dangerous speech in the difference media. The strategies employed includes capacity building, awareness-raising, research and documentation, utilization of regional and international mechanisms, and coalition-building.
5. Human Rights and Rule of Law Programme:
This is a cross-cutting programme aimed at supporting the rights-holders their human rights and duty bearers to respect, protect and ensure the realization of human rights as enshrined in the domestic, regional and international human rights treaties and rule of law. This programme is aimed at addressing the human rights concerns that give rise to the perpetration of mass atrocity crimes through the use of domestic, regional and international human rights mechanisms.
The target groups
The targeted groups for JAP are victims of atrocity crimes, violent Extremism, Statelessness, Hate/Dangerous speech; Civil Society Organizations , Ministry Departments and Agencies, Security agencies, media, students, local authorities among others.