General Resources

Africa Expo
We are a non-profit corporation devoted to funding several charities in Africa and in the United States so that ALL of the profits will go to these charities. Some are medical while others are educational. Currently, our charities include an orphanage for disabled children, a children's cancer ward, treatment for AIDS victims in Africa, and scholarships to bring African young people to the U.S. for a university education and to send American young people of all races to Africa for a junior year abroad.
Africa-Expo was created for the purpose of providing a showplace for the arts, culture, handicrafts, products and technology of the fifty-five nations of Africa in order to bring wider communication, education, trade and understanding between our two continents while raising funds for our African and African-American charities. The dates for the Africa Expo are December 17-23, 2002.

Africa News Now
Up-to-the-minute links to breaking headlines about Africa from hundreds of news sources around the world including AP, ABC, AFP via Voila, BBC, CNN, MSNBC, Reuters etc, updated every 5 minutes. Includes a search facility (30 days of headlines) or browse by subject, such as business or sports.

Economic Policy Empowerment Programme (EPEP)
EPEP is an initiative of the European Network on Debt and Development (EURODAD), aiming to facilitate the enhanced involvement of Southern civil society in bringing a more poverty-focused perspective to national processes and international debate on economic development policies, and promoting greater cohesion between social sector strategies and macroeconomic/structural policies.
EPEP is mapping national economic policy processes and actors in a wide range of countries to provide essential background information for those wishing to engage in economic policy. In Uganda, a mapping study - Mapping of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) Involvement in Economic Policy Empowerment - commissioned by Epep in partnership with NGO Forum has been finalised and was intended to map CSO engagement in economic policy, identify the actors involved and documenting their experiences and lessons learnt, as well as looking at the broader policy environment and identifying potential entry-points for civil society. This study has complimented a parallel one by the NGO Forum focusing on CSO capacity and capacity-building needs in economic policy work. A copy of the this report can be availed on request from Deo Nyanzi, EPEP Programme Officer, at dnyanzi@eurodad.org

Fund-Raising for Small NGOs in Developing Countries
Some of the most frequently asked questions (FAQs) to forums for community-based organizations (CBOs) in developing countries, whatever the subject, are regarding funding. In addition, the first impulse of many such non-governmental organization (NGO) seeking funding is to request the contact information for possible funders, and once such information is received, these NGOs often write immediately to the potential funder, stressing how desperately funds are needed. Sadly, this approach often does harm to the NGO, rather than garnering support. Not only does it rarely attract funding, it can turn funding sources against the NGO altogether.
The 'Basic Fund-Raising for Small NGOs in Developing Countries' guide is meant to provide very basic guidelines for small NGOs in the developing world regarding fund-raising, and to point to other resources. (Guide is in PDF format.

Makerere University
Makerere University is Uganda's premier institution of higher learning. With a student population of over 20,000, it ranks as one of the largest in East and Central Africa. The University website provides information on study oppportunties; research; faculties, institutes and schools ; services and facilities; and contact information for various academic and administrative units.
Makerere University is in the process of formulating an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Policy and Master Plan . The primary goal of the plan is the integration of ICT in the pedagogic and administrative functions of the University. The university intends to provide a highly visible and open strategic planning process. The website - http://www.makerere.ac.ug/makict/index.htm- has been designed to provide ongoing information and updates about the planning process and seek participation in the process through a Discussion Forum.

Regional Centre on Small Arms and Light Weapons in the Great Lakes Region and the Horn of Africa (RECSA)
RECSA is an institutional framework arising from Nairobi Declaration to coordinate the joint effort by National Focal Points in Member States to prevent, combat and eradicate stockpiling and illicit trafficking in small arms and light weapons in the Great Lakes Region and Horn of Africa.
Nairobi Declaration on the Problem of Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons in the Great Lakes Region and the Horn of Africa was signed on the 15th March 2000 by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and / or Representatives of the Governments of Burundi, DRC, Djibouti, Ethiopia Eritrea, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.

nGoAbroad
nGoAbroad links professionals --- nurses, doctors, midwives, teachers, social workers, lawyers, journalists, and business people to help develop businesses --- to needs in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the former Soviet bloc.

Parliament of Uganda
The Parliament of Uganda is the legislative arm of the Uganda government, and has 306 MPs with about 30% of them women. There are gender sensitive men too. The Parliament of Uganda has a policy to pursue legislation that is gender sensitive - treats men, women, children, labour, persons with disability equally before the law. The Parliament of Uganda also has a committee of volunteers that promotes the use of ICT in development. The committee is led by Hon. Dr. Johnson Nkuuhe.

SmallArmsNet
SmallArmsNet is an information portal for groups and individuals working to contain the proliferation of small arms and light weapons in Africa. An initiative of the Arms Management Programme (AMP) of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), South Africa, it is an information hub for small arms and arms related issues affecting the continent. Due to the dynamics underlying the nature of managing weapons in Africa, AMP saw a need for a tool that will assist in stimulating and sustaining a much-needed debate around safety and security issues in Africa. SmallArmsNet aims to help organisations and individuals in the field who wish to build partnerships and share experiences and facilitate coalition building. It has been our strongest belief that information sharing and knowledge are vital in finding ways to address the proliferation of weapons in Africa.

Uganda Communications Commission
UCC regulates the telecommunications and postal services in Uganda. Information provided at this site includes Objectives and Operations of the UCC, Innovations in providing service in Uganda, Development of rural communications, Contacts for some of the service providers in Uganda, and Requirements for applications for communication services licenced by UCC.

University Volunteer Network under the UNITeS Initiative
UNITeS, the UN Information Technology Service, promotes and facilitates volunteer engagement to build peoples' and institutions' capacities to benefit from the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in various development areas. UNITeS builds and coordinates a global network of Universities that share the common interest to help narrowing the Digital Divide. By involving the academic community through the University Volunteer Network, UNITeS expands both human and knowledge resources for capacity building on the uses of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Development. Students and academic staff of UNITeS partner universities contribute their knowledge and skills to selected development projects and build the capacity of individuals and organizations on the application of ICT to various development issues. At the same time they gain practical professional experiences and complement research with social action.
Partnerships with Development Organizations
Organizations that would like to develop and enhance their staff's, volunteers' or beneficiaries' capacities to apply ICT, can propose an assignment to UNITeS. University Volunteers may work in a telecenter and train local communities on software applications, help an NGO to develop a web-presence and train staff to maintain the website, or work with an organization to integrate a particular ICT application into their operations. University Volunteers fill a particular kind of niche. They are in general young and motivated, skilled in ICT applications, and don't have many years of professional experience. They

Have good ICT knowledge, combined with in-depth and up-to-date knowledge in their particular field of study.
Must not necessarily study Information Technology, but can study Medicine, Politics, Agriculture, Journalism etc. - and are skilled to apply ICT to their particular field.
Are students at the graduate level, post-graduate, PhD students or faculty with a UNITeS partner university.
Are looking for professional experience in a real life situation outside of the academic environment and are motivated to apply their acquired skills to a development project where they can make a difference in people's lives. Some may be able to combine field research with social action during their assignment.
Stay in a project for 6 months.

Host organizations are required to provide free accommodation for their University Volunteers. Travel and other costs are covered either by the volunteers themselves, or - in the case of Southern partner universities - by a stipend provided by UNITeS. To request for a University Volunteer and/or for additional information, contact: andrea.goetzke@unvolunteers.org and alexandra.haglund-petitbo@unvolunteers.org. You may also download a request form for a UNITeS University Volunteer (WORD format).

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Last update: July-11, 2006